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Good news for Plant Breeders, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency which administers the Plant Breeders' Rights Act (1990) and the regulations that provide legal protection to plant breeders for new plant varieties, has accepted its first application for a Cannabis Strain. Though the application was submitted in December 2013 it was 6 months before it was published. Big C, as it is called (Botannical Name: Cannabis sativa subsp. Indica) has a long way to go before rights may be granted. The process involves testing and plant trials, and site examinations, and the breeder must be able to show that the variety is new, and different from all other varieties. It must be uniform across all plants bred from the same stock and hold its genetic integrity through successive generations which takes time to prove.

At GGS we design greenhouses, we manufacture greenhouses, we build greenhouses, so you can see that our growth quite literally requires our customers to grow. But not all expansion projects are created equal, and growth for growths sake is never a good idea. Here are a few tips to check to see if your expansion motivations fall on the good side of growing or not.

Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions in water. This is accomplished without soil, either putting the roots directly into the water, as is common with lettuce pools, or rooted in a medium, such as perlite, rockwool, or coconut husks, which is more common for potted plants. Because the nutrients are dissolved in water, they go directly to the roots. Soil can provide a buffer, with hydroponics the roots get exactly what is put into solution.

A few years ago, the cover of GrowerTalks asked the question, “Is marijuana your next crop?” At the time, I was thinking that my home state of Florida would be the 54th out of 50 states to approve any use of marijuana for any reason. Once again, history has proven my predictions to be completely wrong. That’s how Kerry Herndon, owner of Kerry’s Bromeliad Nursery in Homestead, Florida started his April article in Green Profit Magazine.

With the poly Early Order Booking season underway, now is a good time for growers operating in poly greenhouses to take stock of their complete poly maintenance and management systems.

One of our installers gets suited up before putting the finishing touches on the GGS benches being installed at one of Canada’s Licenced Producers for Medical Marijuana. We have installed multiple rooms for this particular LP, and as per Health Canada regulations bio safety and security measures must be adhered to for all.