For greenhouse growers in floriculture and controlled environment agriculture (CEA), growing media is often treated as a cost to manage rather than an input to optimize. As a result, many operations opt to reduce the upfront cost through cheaper mixes or substitutions. While a lower price is ideal…
If you’ve attended any of the industry or scientific events in the past couple of years, it’s nearly impossible not to hear about wood fiber as a growing media component. Here, we explore it's history, developments, early challenges, evolution and advantages.
In this Greenhouse Grower article, Sun Gro's VP of Marketing, Josh Peoples, offers his expert perspective on the robust peat supply in Canada.
Low pH can cause serious production problems for growers. Learn steps to determining low pH in growing media, how to properly sample for accurate testing and the best options for raising growing media pH. This valuable knowledge will help growers maintain the right growing media pH for their crops…
Most soilless growing media are composed of multiple components with distinct physical properties that fit together to form pore spaces of various sizes. Coarse particles create larger pores (macropores) that maintain air spaces and facilitate drainage, while fine particles create smaller pores (micropores) that hold available (and unavailable) water.
Read everything that you need to know about horticultural silicon with this grower to Sun Gro technical specialist Q&A. Horticultural silicon is a water-soluble element that’s readily available to plants. I’ve been hearing about silicon in plants and want to discuss the subject. Isn’t silicon ubiquitous?…
By Robert Steinkamp Reading fertilizer labels would be a good cure for insomnia. Most of you only dig into a fertilizer label only when the need arises and specific information is needed. Let us review what is on the label, why it is there, and the potential usefulness…
By Robert Steinkamp Summary: Limestone is added to growing media to adjust the pH to a desirable level, however other factors influence medium pH while a plant is growing—namely water quality and fertilizer usage. When considering a fertilizer’s influence on pH, a given material’s acid or basic reaction must…
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