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How Heat Stress Doubles Your Pest Pressure During Summer

Heat does two things to your plants at once. It speeds up how fast pests reproduce, and it weakens your plants' own ability to defend themselves, and those two effects compound. Once you see both halves of this mechanism…

Biological Control Isn't Experimental, Chemical Resistance is the Real Risk

Biological control is not the newer, riskier option. It is often the more durable one. Commercial greenhouses, food producers, and cannabis operations have run beneficial insects and predatory mites as their primary stra…

Natural Enemies Joins the Jungle Plant Pop-Up at Rainforest Flora

You'll find rare tropical plant specialists, beginner-friendly houseplant sellers, handmade ceramics and pottery, plant accessories, and food and beverage vendors, all set in Rainforest Flora's greenhouse grounds. Walk t…

Microflora SA Is Now Available in 32 oz: Commercial Root Biology for Every Scale

Microflora SA 32 oz is the first commercial-grade root microbiome product sized specifically for home growers. Most fertilizers feed plants from the outside. Microflora SA works differently. It introduces two naturally o…

Whitefly on Summer Vegetables: What Is Actually Happening and How Biological Control Responds

Vegetable gardens in June are some of the most biologically active environments in any growing calendar. Plants are large, canopies are dense, and pest populations that began building in spring are now cycling through ge…

Myth Buster: Summer Heat Makes Biological Control Ineffective

Every summer the same pattern plays out. Temperatures climb, growers see pest populations accelerating, and the instinct is to step back from biological control. The assumption is that the heat itself is working against …

Broad Mites and Russet Mites: Identification, Biology, and Biological Control

Broad mites and russet mites are two of the most consistently misidentified problems in growing. They are both microscopic, both cause damage that looks like nutrient deficiency or environmental stress, and both spread q…

Good Enough to Eat

Imagine our surprise when we visited our friend @shapingfire on Instagram and were greeted by a crop photo that wasn’t cannabis. It seems Shango has branched out with an agrarian side hobby that’s beneficial …

Root-Bound?

Do you think Catherine’s plant is root-bound? Take a look at her post @botanicallyinsane—she wants to know. The roots have taken on a peculiar form and she’s gotten some interesting responses, especiall…