Commercial growers usually use nursery trays to produce seedlings for planting. Compared with direct planting, when planting in the field, it is easy to remove seedlings from the tray for transplantation. And reduce the time to check the quality of seedlings, in addition, seedlings from the seedling tray can be used for manual or automatic sowing machine

Advantages and disadvantages of using seedling trays

Compared with direct seeding, the use of transplanting has many advantages, although some vegetables are more suitable for transplanting than others. For example, beans, sweet corn, and peas are those that are not usually grown as transplants.

Advantage

The growing season is shorter and the land use efficiency is higher.

Improve crop uniformity.

Predict the harvest date more accurately.

Greatly improved the survival rate of nursery

Extend the growing season.

Use expensive hybrid seeds more efficiently.

Can be used in conjunction with the machine, which greatly provides production efficiency

Disadvantages

A batch of seedling trays needs to be purchased, and the cost investment increases.

Seedlings are more expensive than seedbeds because of cell transplantation, because first of all, you need to invest in a batch of nursery trays. Plants grown using cells have many advantages compared to seed bed or seed tray plants. Their widespread use proves this fact.

Some flower and vegetable growers have established their own nursery production units. The grower must pay close attention to the planting and design of the seedling growing area as if it were a commercial nursery.

Commercial nurseries constantly evaluate their production processes to ensure that they are only selling high-quality seedlings. They seek to produce healthy plants in even quantities to meet customer needs.