This is a new product range offered by Proptec, TopMix is a premium propagation and potting media manufactured using premium Baltic block peat, Select Coir, high grade perlite and zeolite in your specific ratios.
All blends come with the desired rate of Osmocote fertiliser, granular Oasis Soax is incorporated for long lasting re-wetting action and beneficial bacteria to inoculate against disease. The bespoke TopMix blends are also formulated to suit Ellepot Premade Trays.
Choosing the perfect blend for your nursery
Partner with a trusted manufacturer:
Purchasing from a reputable manufacturer is crucial to ensuring your plants receive the nutrients and care they need. Manufacturers will often have different standards, and depending on your plants, some mixes won’t give you results. Be sure to purchase from reputable sources to ensure a safe, weed-free mix. Propagation mixes require precise standards and specialised mixing lines.
Choose a mix that provides proper aeration:
Selecting the right propagation mix is essential for promoting healthy root development and preventing issues such as root rot.
Our TopMix blends, and our Ellepot Prefilled Mixes offer the perfect balance of aeration, moisture retention, and drainage, helping your plants thrive. Proper aeration ensures that your plant’s roots have access to the oxygen they need for growth while also preventing soil compaction, which can hinder nutrient uptake.
Consider our range of TopMix and Ellepot Prefilled Mixes:
We offer various options for your nursery, including standard and high porosity blends and custom blends tailored to your specifications. Additionally, our mixes incorporate Nutri-Life Tricho-Shield, a biological inoculum of beneficial fungii, and Zeolite for enhanced cation exchange.
Embrace sustainable potting media trends:
Trends run the market. By choosing our TopMix Hortifibre solutions, you’ ll be aligning your nursery with the growing trend of sustainable and eco-friendly potting media by removing perlite and reducing the peat component.
Our products support healthier root growth and contribute to a greener future for our planet. As more and more consumers prioritise sustainability in their purchasing decisions, adopting eco-friendly practices in your nursery will help you attract environmentally conscious customers and set your business apart from competitors.
Evaluate the pH, EC and physical properties:
When selecting a propagation mix, it’s essential to consider the pH and EC (electrical conductivity) ranges, as these factors can significantly impact plant growth.
Our TopMix and Ellepot Prefilled Mixes offer pH ranges of 4.0 to 6.0 and EC ranges of 0.5-1.5, providing an ideal environment for most plant species. Choosing a mix with appropriate pH and EC levels ensures that your plants receive the nutrients they need to thrive. Our TopMixes are tested for air filled porosity (AFP), waterholding capacity (WHC) and dry bulk density (DBD).
Our TopMix blends are conveniently delivered in returnable bulk bags holding two cubic metres, making them easy to handle and transport. We also offer expanded coir pith and chips in bulk bags. This streamlined delivery process saves you time and effort, allowing you to focus on what matters most – growing healthy, beautiful plants.
TopMix growing media to suit your specific crop
This is a new product range offered by Proptec, TopMix is a premium propagation and potting media manufactured using premium Baltic block peat, Select Coir, high grade perlite and zeolite in your specific ratios.
All blends come with the desired rate of Osmocote fertiliser, granular Oasis Soax is incorporated for long lasting re-wetting action and beneficial bacteria to inoculate against disease. The bespoke TopMix blends are also formulated to suit Ellepot Premade Trays.
Accreditation & Quality Control
Proptec is fully accredited under the Nursery Industry Accreditation Scheme Australia (NIASA). NIASA is a national scheme governed, administered, managed and promoted by Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA). NIASA is the cornerstone of the Australian Plant Production Standard (APPS) and provides a set of guidelines that ensures a plant production business or growing media supplier operates according to industry best management practice and commits to a continuous improvement cycle.
Building onto NIASA under the APPS is EcoHor t, the industry specific Environmental Management System (EMS), that provides businesses with a systematic approach to assess their environmental and natural resource management responsibilities as part of their daily business management.
We are also certified for BioSecure HACCP which is a systematic approach for production nurseries, growing media manufacturers and greenlife markets to assess and manage their biosecurity risks and responsibilities. The program validates many of the Best Management Practice strategies employed under NIASA. As part of internal quality controls, all of our TopMix and Ellepot mixes are tested for pH and EC when first batched and then retest 7 days later. We keep a 3L sample of all mixes to for 6 months which can be retested for pH, EC, Water Holding Capacity (WHC), Air Filled Porosity (AFP) and Dry Bulk Density (DBD).
TopMix Blends
Proptec has many blends as standard or you can have mixes custom made to your specifications. TopMix is a premium propagation and potting media manufactured using premium Baltic block peat, Select RHP Coir, Woodfibre, high grade perlite and zeolite in your specific ratios.
All blends have our granular Oasis Soax incorporated for long lasting re-wetting action and Nutri-tech beneficial biologicals to inoculate against disease. The bespoke blends are delivered in returnable bulk bags holding two cubic metres. Bags can be delivered on pallets for easy handling.
Baltic Peat
Baltic peat is widely known for its physical, biological, and chemical properties. The climate and geological conditions in these latitudes foster the development of the valuable properties of peat. Peat ensures high moisture absorbability, air circulation around the plant roots, and low heat conductivity, thus creating optimum conditions for cultivating plants and stimulating development of the root system. Baltic peat ensures the best possible environment for plant development and the formation of a root system. Peat also has a buffering effect on pH.
TopMix Coir - Select
Coco substrate has a variety of uses, depending on the way the coconut husk is processed. It can be divided into three forms: Coco pith is fine material combed off the coconut fibres. Crush is the whole husk ground to form a combination of chip and pith. Apart from blends we also offer expanded coir pith and chip in bulk bags holding two cubic metres.
Woodpeat
Block that provides superior performance for plant growth.
A ready-to-use mix combining coir and defibrilated fibres is available for growers and blenders. Providing operational efficiencies and superior plant growth performance, compressed 5kg Woodpeat blocks offer 19 cubic metres of material per pallet.
In combining coir with Hor tifibre in one product called Woodpeat, growers and blenders will be able to eliminate the challenge of sourcing and blending the raw materials onsite.
“Growers will be able to easily reap the benefits of both raw materials in a convenient, all-in-one, highyield product”
Zeolite
Zeolite is used in most of our TopMix potting medias to aid in the CEC.
•High Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC).
• Very high affinity for water increases rewettability of media.
•Lighter than sand.
•Safe natural product.
•Available in 500kg bulk bags
Perlite
Expanded perlite is a lightweight soil conditioner, loosens clay soil, reduces caking, and improves drainage and aeration. Perlite can be used as a substrate for hydroponics. Blend peat moss and perlite for custom soil less mixes. Can be used to start seeds, propagate cuttings, store bulbs and as a hydroponic substrate.
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