Brian Schulker of Jiffy Group looks at the current state of peat and peat alternatives in the floriculture market.

With more growers utilizing wood-based substrates for production, there comes a need to change the way one manages growth and irrigation.

Jeff Langner of Profile Products offers insights on current market conditions and how growers of all sizes can improve their production practices with both peat moss and other materials.

With recent challenges in substrate availability, growers must modify their watering, fertility, and growing practices to optimize plant growth.

Greenhouse growers are navigating peat shortage issues by testing new mixing materials. Here’s how some suppliers are helping them along the way.

American Floral Endowment’s webinar on March 19 will give growers insight on how to effectively and efficiently deal with peat shortages and successfully use peat alternatives.

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.