Originally formed in 1988 as Gellerts Glasshouses for the production of tomatoes and cucumbers, today the Gellert group of companies is devoted to growing high quality vegetable seedlings and selected houseplants.
Operating out of a 15 Acre property in the heart of Karaka, South Auckland. Gellerts has been producing top-quality houseplants for over 20 years.
Our houseplants are grown in approximately half of the total growing area of our greenhouses. With our new high tech 8,500 square meter greenhouse being used exclusively for houseplants.
The greenhouse environment is controlled by using the most up-to-date technology available, with a complete rolling bench system and fully automated setup, complete with the latest in robotics technology.
Our growing facilities ensure that production is of the highest quality with the company continually keeping up to date with the latest world-wide growing techniques.
We strive to produce plants that will give the customer more value and a greater opportunity to increase production and ultimately create better returns. The quality of plants at delivery has been our main focus – this is the process where tomato plants and capsicum plants are grown in the nursery to a height of 45cm/60cm and attached to stakes. This has several benefits to customers – firstly reducing down time between crops, as the plants are in production quicker due to less shock at transplanting, and secondly (and most importantly) the plant is more in balance.
Gellerts is also the sole agent in New Zealand of Cultilene propagation blocks and grow slabs. Cultilene is an innovative company with a very similar philosophy to Gellerts which is what prompted the collaboration of these two well regarded plant enterprises. Cultilene are extremely competitive in the industry producing excellent propagation materials such as Rockwool, substrate cubes and grow slabs. The back up service and correspondence with growers make these products a long term and extremely viable option for growers.
We at Gellerts continue to push boundaries with young plant development which will ultimately benefit our customer’s production potential.
