Quality
Plant Health
Our team have a vast amount of experience and we continue to lead the way in new techniques and developments with a wholehearted commitment to quality and service. Meticulous care has been given to promote plant health and our plants are grown under specific conditions relating to site and isolation from other crops. Our plants are certified under the Plant Health Propagation Scheme (PHPS).
The Plant Health Propagation Scheme (PHPS) encourages the production and use of healthy planting stock. The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) appoint Plant Health and Seeds Inspectors (PHSI) to inspect crops at least once a year to check they meet the standards.
There are many pests and diseases that can seriously damage crops and plants in the UK. To protect plant health, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) sets policy and enforces controls and restrictions on the import, movement and keeping of certain plants, plant pests and other materials such as soil.
The Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate (PHSI) is part of the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and implements and enforces plant health policy in England, and in Wales on behalf of the Welsh Government. As part of the Plant Health Propagation Scheme, The Hop Plant Company have 3 annual inspections by APHA ensuring the highest standard in hop plant propagation.
All of our plants are produced to either Certified Elite status or Health Grade. The table below provides a summary of the different standards
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Certified |
Health Status |
|---|---|---|
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Permanent Layer Bed plants produced from Nuclear Stock |
Yes |
No |
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Clear of Prunus Necrotic Ringspot Virus |
Yes |
No |
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Clear of Verticillium Wilt |
Yes |
Yes |
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Clear of Arabis Mosaic Virus |
Yes |
Yes |
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Clear of Hop Stunt Viroid |
Yes |
Yes |
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Clear of Hop Mosiac Virus for varieties with no tollerance |
Yes |
Yes |
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Subtantially free of Hop Latent Viroid |
Yes |
Yes |
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Substantially free and / or adequate treatment programme ongoing for powdery mildew, downy mildew and other quality pests and diseases |
Yes |
Yes |
Customer Service
The high standards in customer service and plant quality means the company are now the UK's premier hop plant propagator supplying the finest hop gardens in the country and the most reputable retail outlets. Our reputation is now spreading beyond the UK and we regularly export to mainland Europe and beyond.
We take pride in helping our international hop growers with each counrty having different import procedures and we are happy to help you with the process. We have an ever expanding group of agents and distributors all over the world and will endeavour to assit with any enquiry.