This is the plastic clip that fixes a plant stem to a cane, a wire or a branch. It is the small part of a greenhouse order - the part that is bought in bags and shipped in cartons - so this page is written around what a buyer needs before placing one: the size of the clip, the packing it comes in, and the carton weights and dimensions that a shipping plan is calculated from.

This is the part the catalogue lists as a Plastic Plant Support Garden Tomato Clip. Its job is written as fixing plants to canes, wire or branches gently. The mouth of the clip is opened by hand, set over the stem and the support together, and then released, so that the two are held side by side. There is no string to knot and no wire to twist, which is what the specification is describing when it lists the clip as easy to use.

The body is moulded plastic rather than metal, and the clip is listed as weatherproof, so it is made to stay out on the plant and its support through the growing season. The support itself is usually a cane, a length of wire or a branch, and often it is the same galvanized pipe and tube that carries the frame of the house.

Two figures describe the clip itself, and both are the works figures. The material is plastic, and the size is 3.7 x 3 cm across the moulded body. Neither is a range and neither changes with the order: the clip is one size and one material, and it is the packing around it, not the clip, that changes when the quantity changes.

At the buying stage those two figures do the work. The size is what you check the clip against the stem and the support it is going onto, and the material is what the weatherproof rating is quoted against. If a stem or a support falls outside what a 3.7 x 3 cm plastic body will take, say so at the enquiry stage rather than after the carton has been opened.

The clip is packed at two levels, and the specification quotes a figure for each one. At the first level it is 50 pcs per opp bag: the bag that is opened in the shed, and the unit a small order is counted in. At the second level it is 120 sets per carton, and the carton is the unit that is stacked, loaded and counted against a purchase order.

The bag figure is written in pieces and the carton figure is written in sets, exactly as they stand in the works specification, and both are carried through to the quotation in those units. Quote both figures back to us with the quantity and the packing is confirmed on the order, so that what arrives is the bag count and the carton count that were agreed rather than an assumption about how the two relate.

A carton of clips measures 50 x 53 x 42 cm. Its gross weight is 7 KGS and its net weight is 6 KGS. The two weights are quoted side by side so that both figures are known before a container is booked: the gross weight is what a freight quotation is built on, and the net weight tells you how much of that weight is the clips themselves.

For a loading plan the carton is also a volume, and the carton size above gives about 0.11 cubic metres a carton. That figure, read together with the 7 KGS gross weight, is what the weight and the space of a shipment are worked out from - not from the weight of a single clip.

Three things set a clip order: the quantity in cartons, the 7 KGS gross weight of a carton, and the volume of a carton. Multiply the first by the other two and you have the weight and the space of the shipment before a rate is ever asked for, which is the difference between quoting a buyer a real landed cost and guessing at one.

Clips also travel well with the rest of a planting programme. A carton of clips is small and light beside a pallet of seed starting trays, so a clip order is usually added to a load that is already going out rather than shipped on its own. Tell us what else is on the order, and the clip cartons are planned into the same container.

Price and lead time follow the quantity, the packing and the destination port. Send the number of cartons, the port, and whether the order is to be shipped as bags or as cartons, and the quotation comes back from our own works with the lead time confirmed. To start that, send us the order list.

Product: Plastic Plant Support Garden Tomato Clip
Material: plastic
Size: 3.7 x 3 cm
Use: to fix plants to canes, wire or branches gently
Features: easy to use, weatherproof
Package: 50 pcs per opp bag
Packing: 120 sets per carton
G.W: 7 KGS
N.W: 6 KGS
Carton size: 50 x 53 x 42 cm

We have made greenhouse and planting tools for above 35 years, and we supply over 1,200 different kinds of them. They are used by farms, and by agricultural science academies and institutes at home and abroad, and we have exported to more than 120 countries around the world.

The clips are quoted from our own works, so the price follows the moulding and the packing rather than a middleman's list. They are dispatched with the rest of the planting tools and accessories and with the greenhouse equipment lines, on the same order and in the same shipment.

Extension material on protected cultivation and on crop support in the greenhouse is published by the USDA, and reporting on commercial protected cropping appears in HortiDaily.

Q: What is the clip made of, and what size is it?
A: The material is plastic and the size is 3.7 x 3 cm across the moulded body. Both are single figures rather than ranges, and the same size and material apply to every carton.

Q: How many clips are in a bag and how many in a carton?
A: The specification gives 50 pcs per opp bag and 120 sets per carton. The bag is quoted in pieces and the carton in sets, so quote both figures back to us with the quantity and the packing is confirmed on the order.

Q: What are the carton size and the carton weight?
A: A carton measures 50 x 53 x 42 cm, with a gross weight of 7 KGS and a net weight of 6 KGS. The carton size works out at about 0.11 cubic metres a carton, which is the volume a loading plan is built on.

Q: Can clip cartons be shipped together with other planting tools?
A: Yes. A carton of clips is small and light beside a pallet of seed starting trays or a bundle of frame tube, so the cartons are normally added to a container that is already being loaded. Send the full order list and the clip cartons are planned into the same load.

Q: What do you need in order to quote a carton order and a lead time?
A: The number of cartons, the destination port, and whether the order is to ship as bags or as cartons. With the 7 KGS gross weight and the carton volume the weight and the space of the shipment can be worked out before the rate is asked for, and the lead time is confirmed with the quotation.

Q: Are these clips weatherproof?
A: Yes, weatherproof is one of the two features listed for the clip, the other being easy to use. The body is moulded plastic rather than metal, so the clip is made to stay out on the plant and its support through the growing season.

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