Vase life testing

Digital vase life testing

PlantScout helps growers, breeders and quality teams record, compare and analyse vase life trials from one central platform.

Start lightweight with a trial period
  • Try it on all your devices

  • Get powerful insights and real-time results

  • Add photos and notes to every observation

  • Export reports in just a few clicks

  • Collaborate with your team in real time

From your criteria to a report with graphs

You are the specialist in your crop, we are the specialists in recording it. We set up your own assessment criteria in PlantScout — after that every round follows the same route: register it in the portal, score it in the app, read the results back as graphs.

Before you start

Your assessment criteria, set up in the system

We go through what matters in your product — bud opening, Botrytis, yellowing, drooping heads, stems written off — and configure exactly those fields. Every round and every colleague then scores the same points on the same scale.

  • The characteristics you judge, per crop
  • Counts, scales or choice lists per characteristic
  • The phases you test: cold store, transport, shop, vase
  • Your own reference fields: batch, supplier, treatment, purpose
  1. 01

    Web portal

    Register the round

    Enter the basics once: varieties or article groups, start date, supplier or customer, treatment and the purpose of the test. One line per vase, with the number of stems and a vase number.

  2. 02

    Web portal

    Print the QR codes

    Once the round is registered you print its QR codes and put one with every vase. That code is the link between the vase on the table and the round in the portal.

  3. 03

    App

    Score the first observation

    Scan the QR code and the right vase opens, with your own criteria in it. Fill in your findings, add photos and remarks and save. The observation is sent to the web portal straight away.

  4. 04

    App

    Continue where you left off

    The next visit starts at observation 2, 3 or 4 — the app knows what has already been scored. You keep counting until the registration is complete and the round is marked as finished.

  5. 05

    Web portal

    Read the overview report

    Generate the vase life report: the outcome per variety, treatment and batch in graphs, with the photos and remarks from the app underneath.

On location: the app

Scan, score and photograph in the cell, on the shop floor or at the customer — with every trial and every earlier observation at hand.

At your desk: the web portal

Register rounds, print QR codes and study the results in more detail: every observation, graph and report in one place.

What you record per observation

Every trial uses the same fields, so scores from different people and locations stay comparable.

Flower and bud

  • Open flowers per day
  • Bud drop and buds that fail to open
  • Discolouration and translucent petals

Leaf and stem

  • Yellowing and limp leaves
  • Bent neck and stem firmness
  • Water uptake and water quality

Loss and damage

  • Botrytis and mould per stem
  • The day each stem is written off
  • A photo with every deviation

Results and reports

The moment a score is entered, the vase life per treatment is up to date.

Average vase life

Per treatment, cultivar and batch, with the spread between the individual stems.

Compare trials

Put harvest weeks, locations and treatments side by side in one overview.

Share a report

A PDF or Excel file with scores and photos, ready for your customer or supplier.

Get clear what PlantScout can do for your company

A customized demo version / Try PlantScout 2 months

  1. 1. Session

    During a first session we discuss your registration needs

  2. 2. Configure

    Based upon the first session we configure a custom environment for you

  3. 3. Use

    You can directly try out the system with multiple persons in your organisation

  4. 4. Follow up

    We discuss the insights in a weekly call and adjust the system where necessary to optimize the added value