Acres & Acres

Willisms

Chris Beytes

Dr. Will Healy has coined memorable phrases over the years that colorfully describe the solutions to the common cultural, technical and operational problems he’s encountered during thousands of greenhouse visits.

Corr on Cannabis

Sustainability is No Joke

Dr. Brian Corr

With the incredible diversity of the cannabis industry, sustainability means very different things depending on who’s doing the defining.

Cover Story

Is Peat Sustainable?

Jennifer Zurko

An important component of soilless media for a number of years, there are a lot of questions about the long-term viability, availability and sustainability of sphagnum peat moss. We’re hoping to answer some of those questions here.

Features

Be Watchful of Your Water

Dr. Paul Fisher

How irrigation water quality impacts your fertilizer selection.

Features

Houseplant Purchasing Trends

Julie Martens Forney

Consumers are crazy for houseplants, thanks to pandemic lockdowns and work-from-home options. But is the current interest a fad or do present sales predict future trends? Using scientific online surveys, the Floral Marketing Fund has cracked the code of houseplant sales, revealing a positive outcome growers and garden centers can definitely cash in on. Houseplants are big—and will only get bigger.

Features

Mycorrhizae: What’s in a Name?

Rick Yates

The fungal connection with mycorrhizae and plants can be a mutually beneficial relationship, depending on the crop.

Features

New Tricks for Pansy Production

Bill Calkins

Rethink fall and spring pansy production to achieve your best results ever.

Features

The Latest on Growing Media Research

Drs. Brian Jackson, Jeb Fields, James Altland & Jim Owen

Highlights of some of the current projects that scientists are working on to advance soilless cultivation in all areas of horticultural production.

Growers Talk Business

2022: A Third Year of “Unprecedented” Growth?

Abe VanWingerden

The question now becomes whether the industry can sustain the momentum from the last two year and put another strong year on the board in 2022.

Growers Talk Production

2021: A Song of Floods & Fires

Stephanie Saccomano

This past year hosted several record-breaking events and presented a slew of unprecedented challenges.

GT in Brief

Certified Roses Buys Tree & Shrub Nursery

Jennifer Zurko

Certified Roses, Inc., a wholesale producer of garden roses, will assume management of Ran-Pro Farms, a Tyler, Texas, nursery specializing in container-grown ornamental trees and flowering shrubs.

GT in Brief

FTD Rebrands

Chris Beytes

The venerable wire service brand FTD has rebranded for the modern era, while harkening back to its founding in 1910 as a non-profit florist cooperative.

GT in Brief

In Memoriam: Skip Smith

Chris Beytes

Richard “Skip” W. Smith, Jr., former president of the four-generation family business X.S. Smith, Inc., passed away October 19 at home after suffering from cancer.

GT in Brief

Industry-Wide Recruitment Resources Provided by AFE

Jennifer Zurko

The American Floral Endowment (AFE) announced new customizable recruitment resources developed to help every industry segment’s local and national recruiting efforts.

GT in Brief

Mars in AZ

Chris Beytes

Future Martian farmers Megan Kane and Tam Friedman take members of the National Greenhouse Manufacturers Association (NGMA) on an otherworldly tour of the University of Arizona’s Controlled Environment Agriculture Center’s “Mars Lunar Greenhouse.”

GT in Brief

On The Move

Jennifer Zurko

Bayer; Eason Horticultural Resources, Inc.; Hoffman Nursery; Sakata Seed America

GT in Brief

Pipp Horticulture Acquires the GGS Group of Companies

Jennifer Zurko

Pipp Horticulture, a division of Pipp Mobile Storage Systems, Inc., a provider of space-saving, multi-level mobile cultivation systems, announced it has acquired the GGS Group of Companies.

GT in Brief

Profile Products Acquired by New Mountain Capital

Jennifer Zurko

Profile Products—a developer and manufacturer of highly engineered specialty agriscience materials that promote environmental sustainability for horticulture, erosion control and other specialty applications—announced its acquisition by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm.

GT in Brief

SAF Receives $250k Donation for Marketing, Education

Chris Beytes

Herman Meinders, founder of American Floral Services, one of the largest international wire services, has donated $250,000 to the Society of American Florists (SAF) to encourage careers in the floral and horticultural industries, educate florists, and help the industry promote the awareness and sale of cut flowers, plants and floral-related products.

GT in Brief

SLF Quarantine in Two OH Counties

JC Chong

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) imposed a spotted lanternfly quarantine on Jefferson and Cuyahoga Counties in eastern Ohio on October 28.

GT in Brief

Smithers-Oasis Launches New Global Sustainability Program

Jennifer Zurko

Smithers-Oasis announced its new global Sustainability Program called “Do Good. Every Day.”

GT in Brief

The Pindstrup Group Acquires Carolina Soil do Brasil

Jennifer Zurko

Pindstrup, a world-supplier of growing media, announced the acquisition of Carolina Soil do Brasil, one of the largest suppliers of growing media to the horticultural sector in Brazil.

GT in Brief

ThinkPlants Adds New Members

Jennifer Zurko

The ThinkPlants Group, which brings new genetics, as well as supply inputs, to the North American horticulture industry, announced two new members to its network of breeders, growers and suppliers.

GT in Brief

USDA Deploys New Predictive Tool

JC Chong

USDA APHIS PPQ recently organized a group of experts in quantitative analysis—called the Phytosanitary Advanced Analytics Team (PAAT)—to, in USDA’s words, “turn data into insights.”

Inside Look

Working to Find the Facts

Jennifer Zurko

I’ve learned that if you want to get the true facts about something, you have to do the work of finding them.

JZ on D.C.

Steep 2022 H-2A Wage Increases Expected

Jennifer Zurko

Most H-2A visa users are bracing for hefty 2022 wage increases.

Pest Management

Downy Mildews Are No Fun

Dr. Mary Hausbeck

Stop downy mildews from ruining your crop and leaving a hole in your pocket by unraveling the mystery that surrounds this group of pathogens.

Under an Acre

Cultivating a Community of Plant Parents

Anne-Marie Hardie

David Angelov, the owner of Plant Parenthood in Swampscott, Massachusetts, is on a mission to transform the relationship between plants and their owners.

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