Name: Dear Grower Mailbag: We Answer Your Burning Questions
Start: 2025-02-27T19:00:00Z
End: 2025-02-27T19:01:00.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Prospiant is a turnkey controlled environment agriculture solutions provider. With us, you can grow confidently because you will benefit from the financial strength and end-to-end expertise built by our heritage companies during more than 185 years of combined business success.

Hear from our in-house experts as they discuss greenhouse automation

Greenhouse Automation

Hear from Ryner Hernandez as he discusses the type of benching and material handling equipment you'll need!

What types of greenhouse benching/material handling equipment do you recommend?

We'll walk through a punchlist to see what needs to be done to get the greenhouse operational.

Dear Grower: Let’s Get This Greenhouse Operational

Cannabis cultivation science evolves rapidly, and it’s hard to keep up. Join Mark and Jared as they cover the essential engineering calculations, processes, and setpoints every grower needs to know in six key areas.

You will learn:
• Lighting: Understand how to calculate DLI for flower, vegetative, mother plants, and propagation stages. Compare LEDs vs. HPS lighting and learn how to manage light using shade and blackout curtains.
• Irrigation: Explore typical watering and runoff rates for cannabis, along with different irrigation distribution systems and options for recapturing drainage and runoff.
• HVAC: Discover the ideal temperature and humidity levels for each growth stage, how to calculate HVAC loads, and key components to consider.
• CO2 Systems: Gain insight into room ppm and loads for CO2 design, explore different system types, CO2 burners, and more.
• Benching: Identify the best benching systems and layouts and learn how to integrate them with your HVAC setup.
• Controls: See why a fully integrated controls system is essential for managing all grow systems

Cannabis Systems Technical Discussions

Let’s wrap up this greenhouse project!  In this webinar, we’ll show you how the finishing vendor touches for the punch-list makes a greenhouse operational.

Here’s what you’ll learn:
• How controls and shade systems, motor and drive systems, and coverings integrate into your build
• Crucial discussions to have between owners, designers, and project managers for smooth systems integration.
• Key systems considerations: electrical needs, energy codes, greenhouse size, location-based needs, and more
• Bringing it all together for seamless vendor collaboration, trainings and making it work seamlessly the first time.

Dear Grower: Let’s Work With the Vendors

Hear from our in-house project experts as they discuss project management - what's involved, what happens on site and the various challenges they face.

Dear Grower: Let’s Make This Greenhouse Happen

Hear from our in-house experts about the various ways of heating a greenhouse.

Greenhouse Heating Options

Bringing your greenhouse vision to life starts with smart design choices. Every decision you make with your designer impacts the cost and performance of your greenhouse, now and in the future.

In this webinar, we'll show you how your greenhouse design sets the foundation for creating a greenhouse that's functional, cost-efficient, and compliant.

What We’ll Cover:
• Codes and Regulations: Understand how local and state codes, permits, and regulations shape your design. We’ll discuss loading requirements and why energy codes are becoming a bigger deal to stay compliant.
• Engineering 101: Learn how design elements—like material gauges and truss types—affect the cost and structure of your greenhouse.
• Behind-the-Scenes Design: From creating drawings for manufacturing parts to getting your sign-off, we’ll cover the average timeline for design and the steps to prepare you for a successful build. 

"Let’s Design Your Greenhouse" is the second part of our "Dear Grower" series that guides you through building a greenhouse from concept to construction and beyond.

Dear Grower: Let’s Design Your Greenhouse

Join us for the first webinar in our “Dear Grower” series, where we'll guide you through the ins and outs of starting this journey right. Elmer Grosser, a former project manager and current Owner of Diefenbacher Greenhouses, and Keith Bemerer, a Prospiant Sales Rep, will share their insights on what it takes to build a strong, successful partnership from the get-go.

Building a greenhouse is a big deal, and it all starts with that first call: “I want to build a greenhouse.”

But what comes next? How do you get on the same page with your sales rep and make sure that what you discuss translates into reality?

In this session, you’ll learn:
• The key questions to ask your sales rep when you're ready to start talking about a new greenhouse
• What both you and your sales rep need to bring to the table to make this project work
• How to figure out exactly what you want in your greenhouse—and where to find inspiration
• Tips for navigating the tricky balance between your wish list and what’s realistic
• How to plan for the future, so your greenhouse meets your needs for years to come
• Best practices for keeping the relationship strong before, during, and after the build—whether it’s a one-off project or the start of something bigger.

Dear Grower: So You Want to Build a Greenhouse?

Building a commercial greenhouse isn’t a quick cash grab; it’s a serious investment.  

The final price tag of a commercial greenhouse depends on a slew of factors you need to consider before you build to avoid hidden surprises and cost overruns that derail your budget, so let’s have a frank talk about money matters.

Join our greenhouse experts for a panel discussion as we dive into how to make smart moves when determining building costs to get exactly what you want in your greenhouse without sacrificing quality and while getting the best return on your investment.

How Much Does a Commercial Greenhouse Actually Cost

Hear from Mark Reich and Nick Earls about best practices for integrating environmental controls into your cannabis greenhouse or indoor grow. 

Discover innovative strategies for:
• Managing HVAC environmentals through VPD control
• Refining irrigation with targeted micro-dosing techniques 
• Real-time customization of greenhouse LED lighting grids using environmental control
• Correlating environmental data to end-yield results

Cannabis Cultivation Controls and Integration Challenges

Our in-house experts discuss everything you need to know about purchasing a greenhouse when you're planning to grow leafy greens!

Everything you need to know before purchasing a greenhouse for leafy greens

In the dynamic world of agriculture, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for ensuring optimal plant health and productivity while managing energy consumption. Join us for an enlightening webinar where we’ll dive into the intricacies of greenhouse environmental controls, exploring cutting-edge techniques and technologies that will revolutionize how you nurture your crops.

Your hosts are Paul Golden, our in-house expert, and Nick Earls from Wadsworth Controls.

Greenhouse Environmental Controls

Now is the prime time to advance your lettuce cultivation expertise, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and techniques to achieve faster crop turns, improve crop quality and yields, and find new efficiencies to fine-tune your operations. 

Join experts from AdeptAg and Prospiant for Part 2 of a panel discussion focusing on the production demands of greenhouse lettuce to successfully transition plants from propagation to grow-out. Participate in this dynamic discussion to learn more about:  

• Key production differences for head lettuce and cut lettuce
• Substrate options for young plant growth
• Plant spacing tactics to maximize yield per square foot
• Ideal environmental conditions for healthy plants: temperature, light, and humidity 
• Irrigation solutions for monitoring, filtration, oxygenation, sterilization, and more 
• Air circulation best practices: Prevent moisture build-up, mitigate disease risk

Greenhouse Lettuce Cultivation: Part 2 – Propagation & Young Plant Production

Join experts from AdeptAg, Prospiant, and Great Lakes Growers for a dynamic panel discussion on the demands of lettuce seed germination and the vital irrigation solutions for developing strong root systems. Don't miss this expert discussion, exploring a range of germination topics related to greenhouse growing:
Mobile gutters and table w/trays
Cut and head lettuce germination
Space optimization
Substrate options
Irrigation tools and solutions
Environmental conditions

Lettuce Cultivation Series: Part 1 – Optimizing Seed Germination

Listen to our in-house expert and the retired head of technical services for Ball Horticulture, Will Healy, discuss setting up a greenhouse for propagation and current trends!

They will discuss new (or at least new to someone who hasn’t heard it before) and improved propagation facilities.  Want to know more about controls, venting, curtains etc. to manage temp and RH, over/under bench heating systems or other ‘hardware’ parts of the facility that improve the growth and establishment of young plants (seed and URC)?  Say no more! Tune in on 1/25!

Optimizing Technology to Achieve Uniform Plant Growth – Propagation Stage 0->2

Join us for an in-depth exploration of commercial greenhouse lettuce production. During this webinar, we’ll delve into the intricacies of lettuce cultivation within a greenhouse environment, covering everything from germination to climate control. Whether you're a seasoned greenhouse professional or just starting out, you'll gain valuable insights and strategies to maximize your lettuce yields and enhance the efficiency of your greenhouse operation.

Commercial Greenhouse Lettuce Production 101

Rounding out our Dear Grower series, we'll answer questions and summarize the entire construction process!

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