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Capillary Hydroponics

Capillary Hydroponics

Perfect your greens, tees and fairways

Grow stronger and more durable grass for an improved performance

The Capillary Hydroponics system enables growth of turfgrass with properties to detailed specifications. The grass is stronger and more durable with significantly less maintenance and environmental impact

Greens

Enjoy greens with stronger grass that grows to specifications of desired playing conditions

Tees

Build tee boxes with stronger grass, greater wear tolerance and less maintenance

Fairways

Superior drainage capability and subsurface irrigation allows for fairways that can perform superbly in any weather conditions without demanding high irrigation amounts.

 

Grass rooted to perfection

The Capillary Hydroponics system is efficient and ensures that the grass grows stronger with deeper roots, providing outstanding wear-, shade-, disease-, drought- and heat stress-tolerance, excellent tensile strength and faster establishment.

  • Extended growing season
  • Healthier grass
  • Grows in harsh conditions
  • Lower need for aeration
  • Less prone to divots
  • Halved grow-in time

 

Grow grass in sand instead of soil

Using sand enables better drainage and acts as a natural biofilter

Subsurface irrigation and a greater gas-exchange in root zones enables grass to grow strong in sand. Using a sand layer as growing medium will support drainage and aeration, which provide more oxygen and dissolve nutrients better, both distributed from the moving water table used to mimic a natural ebb and flow system.

 


About CapillaryFlow

Our Vision

A world where building low-maintenance natural spaces for sport and leisure is easy and sustainable.

Our Mission

Provide sustainable, durable and trouble-free greens and grounds for sport and leisure

We are a technology company whose patented innovations are enabling golf courses, sports grounds, and other leisure spaces like city parks to build long-lasting and low maintenance greens, bunkers and grounds.

Controlling the water, carbon dioxide and oxygen levels for various soil profiles in these spaces is a major challenge. Our  proprietary CapillaryFlow technology offers a simple solution that ensures optimal moisture levels and good drainage regardless of the weather conditions.

Capillary Material is the common factor across most of our solutions including Capillary Bunkers, Capillary Hydroponics, and Capillary Geothermal. It is a patented and engineered polymer-based concrete that is the only building material that can move water both up and down to precisely regulate the moisture content of any adjacent material, such as sand or soil.

 

From golf courses to sports fields, equestrian arenas and city squares

Over the last 15 years, our innovations have transformed the way the golf industry constructs bunkers and greens. It was but natural for us to progress into adjacent fields.

We understand the challenges of constructing, maintaining and regulating moisture levels in golf courses, sports fields, equestrian arenas and city parks and squares. Everything we develop is tested in real-life situations – over and over again. We work with some of the most advanced laboratories in the world to develop the best and most effective solutions for our customers.

 

 

Centaur Asia Pacific is the exclusive distributor for CapillaryFlow range of products in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand beside other countries in South-East Asia.

Updated on: 9 February 2023

HOW IT WORKS

Using an automatically fertilized and oxygenated moving water table to grow stronger grass

With the help of a solar-powered airlift pump water is circulated on a set interval between two basins on opposite halves of a turf. Through capillary action water moves back into the root-zone and forces carbon dioxide out of the growing media through displacement, and inversely draws oxygen back into the soil as the water recedes. 

This ensures the grass can grow stronger, minimizes wasted water and helps to evenly distribute fertilizers and pesticides from the basins into the turf, with virtually no leaching into the environment.

 

Cost of maintenance is significantly less

Compared to regular turf maintenance Capillary Hydroponics occupy less resources in maintenance.

 Up to 85 % less water consumption

Up to 50% less fertilizers and pesticides

Automated watering and maintenance

 

Why Capillary Hydroponics?

RAPID ESTABLISHMENT AND REDUCED GROW-IN TIME

Stronger grass with deeper root zones

Using sand, an open growing medium, provides enough root zone porosity for grass to grow strong rapidly. Subsurface irrigation and a moving water table increases the oxygen-gas exchange for an improved growth.

LESS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

No leaching of pesticides and fertilizers

By using subsurface irrigation and distribution of fertilizers and pesticides in the water there is no leaching of harmful substances or microplastics into adjacent soil, surrounding water streams or ground water.

WORKS ANYWHERE

Any soil or sand profile

The Capillary Material keeps the ground base levelled regardless of the ground profile it is installed on - avoiding migration of particles and settling of the ground. The moving water table makes sure grass grows strong in any sand.

CONSISTENT PLAYING CONDITIONS

Choose the performance and characteristics you prefer

Using a moving water table with set intervals you choose the characteristics you want for the tee, green or fairway, be it fast, slow, firm or soft.