The PlantTape automated transplanting system sets an industry standard for efficiency and ease-of-use. Growers of vegetables, tomatoes, and hemp can double or triple transplanting output while slashing labor costs by 80% compared to alternative transplanting systems.
The PlantTape transplanting process
From the nursery, trays of PlantTape transplants are loaded into bins and shipped to the planting site.
The PlantTape transplanter can accommodate 68 trays of seedlings. At 840 seedlings per tray, the transplanter holds around 57,000 plants.
As the transplanter is pulled through the field, its planter modules pull the PlantTape material from the trays. Each tray’s tape is clipped to the next to provide a seamless transplanting pull-through from tray to tray.
The planter module cuts the tape between plants and places each seedling into the soil according to precise plant spacing and depth settings.
The PlantTape 3-point planter
The world’s most adaptable transplanter
Where other automated transplanters rely on complex computer systems, actuators, and sensors, the planting mechanism for the PlantTape 3-point automated transplanter is 100% mechanical.
Line-to-line spacing can be altered in the field to allow for many different bed configurations. Growers can plant fields with different bed configurations on the same day with some mechanical adjustments using simple tools. Plant-to-plant spacing can be altered on the fly via a console touch-screen.