Mechanical Transplant of Strawberry

Nice clip here of a mechanical transplant operation underway in Santa Maria just a few days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwBpDsF-lNE&feature=youtu.be

Great photography shot out of a drone.

The people running this machine clearly understand the dynamics of this system better than I do, but from a horticultural perspective I am looking closely at two things:

1.  The machine is planting plugs (alleviating my concern about "J" rooting!).

2.  How will the plug plants respond to a summer planting scenario, given (as far as I understand) that they have no cold conditioning.

Nice to see this sort of progress in the industry.

H/T colleague Surendra Dara who turned me on to this video.

Mark

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