The new engineered foam growing media is designed especially for precision vegetative propagation and facilitates easy, breakage-free sticking of cuttings.

The line includes HydraFiber Ultra Specialty Short Fiber and HydraFiber TruRoot + Peat, both of which are designed to easily fill trays and liners and bond tightly.

Wageningen University & Research is developing a model with which a producer can calculate the composition of a substrate mixture online.

With a peat harvest below projections in Canada, suppliers advise growers to order early and keep in touch.

Growers are looking for alternative types of growing media, and scientists are hard at work to find new solutions.

Aspects such as porosity, water holding capacity, structure, and drainage are decisive for the successful propagation of crops.

The agreement opens the door for VidaWool growing media to be sold through the Hawthorne Gardening Company’s retailer network.

Jack Bobo, a doctoral student at North Carolina State University, is studying the preconditioning of horticulture wood fiber substrates for use in the production of floriculture crops.

Suppliers offer an inside look at peat harvesting, and how Mother Nature can affect supply.

New data released by the Horticultural Trades Association shows clear consequences that accelerating a ban on growers using peat will have significant environmental and economic impacts.

Do not make changes to your current growing media without experimenting first to see if changes may affect your cultural practices.

When it comes to emerging indoor crops such as strawberries, a little production knowledge goes a long way.

During the upcoming GreenTech show in Amsterdam, the International Association of Horticultural Producers will be debating sustainable growing media solutions and industry readiness.