Icon Horticulture Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Icon Horticultture provide Naturally Ventilated Greenhouses. In having Natural ventilation allows for an inexpensive means of cooling. With the use of atrium roof vents the clear opening to the sky quickly allows the hot air to escape similar to a chimney. In conjunction with side inlet vents and shade curtains temperatures can be less than outside ambient temperature. The inlet vents can be the guillotine vents with their clear opening or the old style rack and pinion. The quiet environment of natural ventilation is a great shopping experience in a retail garden center as compared to noisy fans. Less expensive cloth curtains will give you an economical natural ventilation option in the roof or the walls.

Net houses are basically naturally ventilated climate controlled. Icon Horticultture have a variety of applications, the majority being, growing of vegetables, floriculture, fruit crop growing for export market. Icon Horticultture are built of a Pre-galvanized channel cum tubular structure/ Tubular Structure wherein crops are grown under a favourable controlled environment and other conditions viz. temperature, humidity, light intensity, soil media, disease control, irrigation, Fertigation and other agronomical practices throughout the season irrespective of the natural conditions outside. In conventional Agronomical practices, the crops are being grown / cultivated in the open field under natural conditions where the crops are more susceptible to sudden changes in climate i.e. temperature, humidity, light intensity, photo period and other conditions due to which the quality, yield of a particular crop can get affected and may be decreased. Icon Horticultture are available in different sizes and constructed as per customer requirement. The sizes vary from as small as 1000 Sq. M to 4,000 Sq M and more. The degree of sophistication also varies from a simple net house with Insect Net/ Shade Net covering to highly sophisticated, fully automated drip and foggers systems, full scale computerized (fully automated) systems.

A fan-and-pad based greenhouse is used to provide a controlled growing environment for growing speciality crops and plants. This greenhouse is provided with special-purpose fans to draw air into the greenhouse through high-efficiency cooling pads made from high surface area ribbons of cellulose fibre. Humidity is controlled by an elaborate system of foggers. Fertigation is implemented by an efficient drip-irrigation system. Typically, exotic plants and crops meant for the export market or as import-substitutes are grown in such greenhouses. The temperature and humidity can be controlled to provide the exact growing environment required for plants that grow in temperate regions. Plants that are commonly grown in these greenhouses are carnation, gerbera, rose, coloured capsicum, cucumber, cherry tomato, and so on.

Plug Nursery is a small-sized seedlings growning plant. This type of plug nursery is used for commercially raising vegetables and bedding plants. Similarly plug nursery may also refer to small sections of lawn grass sod. After being planted, lawn grass may somewhat spread over an adjacent area. Planting from plug nursery reduces the time a crop resides in the ground, and is functional for those with limited space. Plug nursery can improve yields: a healthy, stocky plant will grow rapidly and symmetrically when planted out, with a potentially greater capacity to withstand pests, disease and drought. Raising some types of seedlings successfully can be difficult, so plug nursery can be beneficial for less experienced gardeners. Plug nursery are beneficial for gardeners who want to try a new variety or a range of varieties without purchasing numerous packets of seeds and starting the plants from seed. Plug plants are very useful if the sowing window is missed, and plug nursery can be purchased quickly to replace a crop which has failed. The benefits of plug Nursery Production   • Less time and labor to transplant • Higher survival rate of seedlings, because of reduced damage in transplanting and lower incidence of disease • Higher quality and uniformity of transplants • Decreased use of the pesticides • Yields to the extent of the seeds genetic potential • Earlier establishment and earlier harvest after transplanting • Suitability for mechanical transplanting • Reliable planning of production • Fewer losses at transplanting • Less transplant shock resulting in more uniform flowering compared with bare-root seedlings • Small seeds have a better chance of even germination • Less time in the field, fewer risks, less irrigation and sprayings • Intensive care - Seedlings receive better care and protection (from animals, weeds and pests) • Reductions of costs - Fewer seeds are used for raising seedlings in the nursery than for sowing • Opportunity for selection - Raising seedlings in a nursery affords the grower an opportunity to select well grown, vigorous, uniform and disease free seedlings • Extend a short growing season for late maturing crops – Seedlings grown in a nursery can be protected from the adverse conditions if any and when it become suitable for growth, Seedlings transplanted into the fields • Young plants will make it possible to produce vegetables off-season, resulting in better market prices for the farmers