Expecting a high quality raw material produced sustainably? We grow our next innovation: Sphaxx®

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Sphaxx® is a next-generation raw material that we grow under controlled conditions. It retains all the benefits of natural sphagnum but with superior purity and quality. This approach ensures a more reliable, sustainable, and predictable alternative to traditional sphagnum harvesting.

Take a look at our next innovation: Sphaxx®

Traditional sphagnum?
Thanks to Sphaxx® it’s all water under the bridge now.

Smiling man standing in a big greenhouse full of orchid plants.

Traditional Sphagnum

  • Intervention in natural stocks
  • Quality and quantity not predictable
  • Long transport routes (from places like Chile, New Zealand, China …)

Innovative Sphaxx®

  • Cultivated under controlled and sustainable indoor conditions
  • Exceptional purity and quality
  • Local production ensures sustainable and consistent supply

Sphagnum moss – the morphology

Sphagnum plants consist of leaves whose structure is naturally adapted to the storage of water and air.

Sphagnum moss – special cells

These leaves consist of two types of cells. The smaller ones (chlorophyllose cells) contain the green chlorophyll. The larger ones (hyaline cells) can rapidly exchange air and water. They constitute 80% of the leaves.

Sphagnum moss – valuable properties

For horticulture, Sphagnum possesses unique properties: it quickly absorbs a lot of water and retains it while remaining available for the roots of the growing plant.

Sphagnum moss – special features

Additionally, Sphagnum has a low pH value, bactericidal and fungistatic effects and a high air capacity.

Sphagnum moss – use in horticulture

In orchid cultivation as well as in other specialty crops (such as bromeliads, bonsai and bog plants) Sphagnum is already a sought-after substrate due to these properties.

Sphaxx®: Next step innovation.
Be part of it!

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Get in touch with us. The success story of Sphaxx® and orchids has long been written. Now it’s time to find out together how Sphaxx® can also become an innovation boost for your crops:

Sphaxx® product benefits:
The best for orchid young plants

Orchid seedling in propagation pot. Sphaxx plate wrapped around root ball.
  • High water capacity
  • High air capacity
  • Pure Sphagnum
  • Low pH value
  • Local production
  • Renewable resource
  • Certified for organic cultivation
Logo of the organic certification organisation Ecocert.

Sphaxx® customer benefits:
Calculable demand instead of calculated risk.

Hands holding freshly harvested pure sphagnum.
  • Easy and fast potting
  • Easy to calculate demand
  • Consistent availability and quality
  • Purity – clean material
  • Regional and sustainable
  • Excellent service

Sphaxx® plates:
Ideal for orchid propagation and growth.

Sphaxx® plates are compressed Sphagnum sheets, perfect for propagating orchid young plants. They can simply be wrapped around the young plant’s root ball and potted. When watered, the sphagnum expands and fills the pot completely and evenly. This creates an optimal microclimate for root growth.

The application of Sphaxx® plates:
As easy as writing easy.

The practical shape of Sphaxx® plates combines the optimal horticultural properties of Sphagnum with easy and quick handling.

A young orchid plant with strong green leaves and strong roots, an empty plant pot and a Sphaxx plate.

Step 1

For the cultivation of your
orchid, you only need a suitable pot and a Sphaxx® plate.

Hand holds a young orchid plant with strong green leaves. A Sphaxx plate is wrapped around the root ball of the plant.

Step 2

Wrap the Sphaxx® plate around the root ball of the orchid and pot them together.

Two young orchid plants seen from above. The Sphaxx plate on plant one is dry. The plant pot is not completely filled. On plant two, the Sphaxx plate is wet and swollen. It fills the entire plant pot with the root ball.

Step 3

Now, add water allowing the Sphaxx® plate to expand, perfectly enclosing the roots of your orchid.

Sphaxx® – another pioneering idea by Klasmann-Deilmann.

Klasmann-Deilmann company headquarters in Geeste, Lower Saxony

Klasmann-Deilmann is the leading corporate group in the international substrate industry, with numerous sales and production companies in Europe, Asia and America, and a network of sales and production partners on every continent. Everywhere, growing media by Klasmann-Deilmann provide a vital basis for the growth of fruit, vegetables, edible mushrooms, herbs, ornamental plants, trees and shrubs. Klasmann-Deilmann has been developing substrate constituents for over 30 years. For the best cultivation results and with a high degree of sustainability. Sphaxx® is the latest innovation that fulfils these requirements.