New Greenhouse Products At Cultivate’16
If you are looking for the latest innovations in new products and equipment, the New Product Zone at Cultivate’16 was the place to be. This regular presentation at the tradeshow featured a gathering of more than 20 new products, ranging from sprayers and controllers to pots and trays. This year, Jiffy’s FORMiT, a loose-fill substrate for plug trays, received the Fresh Ideas Best New Product award for 2016, sponsored by Greenhouse Grower and AmericanHort. In case you missed the New Product Zone at Cultivate, here’s a sampling of the new offerings on display.
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3.0 Locking Plant Guide Clamshell (Landmark Plastic)
The locking clam pack design secures the container and soil in place while leaving room for the foliage during shipping. It is a safe, secure way to ship vegetable transplants, flower seedlings, and more.
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16-Zone Mist Controller (Innovative Growers Equipment)
The new 16-Zone Mist Controller is user-friendly with intuitive touch-screen programming. Each zone can be independently programmed for mist duration and time between mist cycles.
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AcceleWET (RainSoil)
AcceleWet improves penetration and lateral movement of water in the soil during the initial wetting process of both compressed and uncompressed soilless growing media.
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Accordian Horticulture Tray (Landmark Plastic)
The Accordion Horticulture Tray eliminates the need to handle single strips, and features auto-spacing that saves time and labor costs in filling, production, and logistics. A solid design, with no scoring, eliminates the need for an extra carrying tray.
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Coir Products From Envelor Inc.
Envelor offers premium coir products at competitive prices, like its three-pack of Coir Plantable Grow Pots that can be planted into a larger containers or the ground, leaving the roots intact, and its 4-inch Coir Plantable Grow Pellets that increase soil aeration for growing seedlings.
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CropBox (Farm Wholesale Ag)
This durable packing box has sealed edges to lock out contaminants and bacteria, which makes it easy to sanitize, and it is FDA compliant. Air is trapped between the flutes, adding insulation to help maintain freshness, and soft polypropylene material cushions produce to help prevent bruising.
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EasyDose Universal Chemical Injector (DEMA Engineering Company)
EasyDose is a practical solution for chemical dosing in to irrigation systems and other applications where pressurized water lines require metered chemical injection. The software that accompanies the unit allows it to be set up for manually or with DEMA’s Smart Dosing Software, which makes the unit proportional over a wide range of flows.
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EcoGrow Enviro-Containers (The HC Companies)
Designed especially for growers, these enviro-containers maintain their structure in the greenhouse and at retail. They are 100% biodegradable and compostable. No recycling is required because there is zero waste.
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FORMiT Substrate (Jiffy)
Winner of the Fresh Ideas Best New Product award, FORMiT is a loose-fill substrate that stabilizes in the plug tray with the simple application of water, fitting any flat-filling equipment. It provides plug integrity and ensures non-interruption of plant growth by not disturbing the roots, allowing for mechanical transplanting of delicate varieties, and reducing the use of plant growth regulators.
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Kamelia Plant Pots (Kamel Dawahry)
The Kamelia Plant Pot has a unique self-watering system that allows for the full usage of its reservoir water. Pots come in a wide array of colors and have 10 times the capacity of similar pots, holding about 21 seedlings.
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Light Deprivation Polycarbonate Greenhouse Cover (Resolite)
This new product from Resolite is for use on specialty greenhouses for end walls, sidewalls, and greenhouse roofs, and for covering storage areas or as an alternative to metal corrugated panels. Available in black or white, it has 0% light transmission, is virtually unbreakable, and has a high insulation value.
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New Crop Protection Products From Syngenta
Syngenta has a number of new options for crop protection. With six different modes of action, Concert II, Palladium, and Mural fungicides offer a complete program to help control leaf spots, Botrytis, powdery mildew, and rust disease on ornamental crops.
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New Plant Nutrition Options From Nature’s Source Plant Food
Nature’s Source has a number of new options out for maintaining healthy plants, which include Turf & Landscape 5-0-7, Nursery & Landscape Special 10-4-5, Foliar 10-4-3, and Foliar Essentials BioNutrition Spray.
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ON-Gard (Bioworks)
On-Gard is a 100% plant-derived, water-soluble fertilizer that improves plant development and helps sustain growth. It augments the uptake of other nutrients and foliar and root-uptake is rapid. On-Gard can be applied as a spray, root drench, or dip.
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Solutions From OHP
OHP has several new products out that provide growers with good options for disease and insect control, including Triact 70, Segway O, Azatin O, and Triathlon BA Biofungicide (now Organic Materials Review Institute listed).
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TetraCURB Concentrate (Kemin Industries, Crop Technologies)
TetraCURB is a new miticide with rosemary essential oil as its active ingredient. Rosemary oil is one of a number of plant-derived essential oils proven to be an effective pesticide. TetraCURB is effective in controlling two-spotted spider mites, is 25b exempt, and has no pre-harvest interval or worker re-entry interval.
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WaterPulse Irrigation Mats
WaterPulse irrigation mats use a patent-pending technology to mimic the natural capillary action of soil to move water to plants efficiently and precisely. This significantly reduces water usage, plant loss, and overall cost while improving plant quality.
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Commercial Quality Portable Backpack Sprayer (Jacto)2
The PJB-16 is an advanced, battery-powered, 4-gallon backpack sprayer that is ergonomically designed and lightweight. It has features such as hydraulic agitation, multiple pressure settings, a walking pace (speed) indicator, and built-in self-diagnostics.
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3.0 Locking Plant Guide Clamshell (Landmark Plastic)
16-Zone Mist Controller (Innovative Growers Equipment)
AcceleWET (RainSoil)
Accordian Horticulture Tray (Landmark Plastic)
Coir Products From Envelor Inc.
CropBox (Farm Wholesale Ag)
EasyDose Universal Chemical Injector (DEMA Engineering Company)
EcoGrow Enviro-Containers (The HC Companies)
FORMiT Substrate (Jiffy)
Kamelia Plant Pots (Kamel Dawahry)
Light Deprivation Polycarbonate Greenhouse Cover (Resolite)
New Crop Protection Products From Syngenta
New Plant Nutrition Options From Nature’s Source Plant Food
ON-Gard (Bioworks)
Solutions From OHP
TetraCURB Concentrate (Kemin Industries, Crop Technologies)
WaterPulse Irrigation Mats
Commercial Quality Portable Backpack Sprayer (Jacto)2
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Janeen Wright is former Editor for Greenhouse Grower. . See all author stories here.