Prime Ties | Here for Good.

What Are Prime Ties?

Prime Ties are a recycled loop of material perfect for tying vines in most crops. Whether Kiwifruit, Apples, Grapes or Persimmon – Prime Ties can help your crop. Our vine ties are an upcycled byproduct which means less waste with over 35 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill to bring you the perfect up-cycled vine tie.

  • A Bundle of Ties on a Wrist alongside a young sapling.
  • Applying Prime Ties to a young sapling in the garden
  • Tying a Prime Tie off on a young sapling in the garden.
  • A young sapling with a vine tie on the plant.
  • A Young Sapling with a vine tie ensuring the plant grows in the right direction.

For the gardening enthusiast or orchardist, you’ve probably tried plastic cable ties – and while they are great in some situations, Prime Ties are much soften on the canes and naturally grip back on itself to create the perfect tie for your vines.

The added benefit of being a recycled material, that instead of creating new waste – we making use of existing waste, helping to reduce the overall footprint we leave on this world.

Our Products

Prime Ties

A favourite amongst vine orchards, our Prime Ties have helped growers for over 25 years. We like to keep it simple, one great product with two options on how it is packaged.

Bundled

Our Bundled Prime Ties are available in either 1kg Bags or 10kg Bulk Boxes. With over 2,000 ties per kg, these are the most efficient when it comes to pruning.

Loose

The same ties, however these are not bundled, while some growers prefer these – the majority prefer the convenience of the bundles.

Both are available in 1kg or 10kg boxes.

eco Ties

A great tool for winter pruning, these cotton vine ties are not only strong to survive the elements – but will also breakdown in the compost over time.

Bundled

Loose

These are now available in both 1kg Bags & 10kg boxes.
We are trialing using compostable packaging for eco Ties.

Loose eco Ties with approximately 900 ties. The perfect starter for a garden or a larger crop.

Both are available in 1kg or 10kg boxes.

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Use Cases for Prime Ties

  • Seasonal workers in kiwfruit vinyard pruning and tying down between seasons in Bay of Plenty New Zealand.
  • A grape vine is tied up using Prime Ties after winter pruning in central Otago
  • A grape leader cane is tied up using Prime Ties after winter pruning in central Otago

Our Retailers

We work with the best horticulture supplies companies in New Zealand – find the closest below. We’re always on the hunt to expand our retailer network to ensure our growers can access our products.

Internationally we’re working on growing our list of distributors, drop us a line if you’d like to see Prime Ties in your town.

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Get in Touch

[email protected]
+64-27-631-2070
93 Tetley Road, Katikati