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Greenhouse Grower’s October 2026 issue brings together coverage of operating costs, business continuity, native plant production, lighting technology and greenhouse recovery. The magazine also features orchid irrigation research using wireless sensors and crop-weight data, perennial breeding, and practical advice on branching in bedding crops.
Greenhouse Grower has published its October 2026 issue, featuring 10 stories on greenhouse operations, crop production and technology. The issue covers subjects ranging from energy and waste-cost reduction to native perennials, business continuity, lighting adoption and rebuilding after a fire, giving growers a broad set of operational and production topics to explore.
The magazine’s roundup highlights a report by Andy Wilcox on Green Valley Greenhouse, which used rebates, efficiency projects and waste-reduction changes to lower costs and improve project payback. Paul Sellers’ feature offers greenhouse leaders five questions for business continuity planning, focusing on development, planning and succession.
Several stories focus on plants and crop production. Spring Creek Growers, named Greenhouse Grower’s 2026 Operation of the Year, developed a small group of native crops into its second-largest program. Other coverage looks at native perennial introductions intended to perform better for growers while retaining retail and landscape appeal, and at how Chicago Botanic Garden breeder Justin Lombardoni uses ecological function and niche genera to guide perennial breeding.
The issue also examines greenhouse lighting and technology adoption, including supplier efforts to make lighting systems more efficient and adaptable and discussions of the risks of adopting technology too quickly. Gretchen Schimelpfenig, PE, and Neda Vaseghi describe how Floricultura uses wireless sensors and crop-weight data to connect greenhouse conditions with orchid irrigation and crop response. Another feature covers Grower Direct Farms’ rebuilding after its 2025 fire, including changes to logistics, heating, insurance and team structure. Christopher J. Currey provides a production refresher on pinching, BA and ethephon to improve branching in spring annuals.
Operational Choices Across the Issue
The collection addresses decisions with direct consequences for greenhouse businesses: energy and waste costs, planning for leadership continuity, selecting production technology and responding to major disruptions. Rather than presenting one central industry finding, the issue assembles case studies and practical coverage across those areas.
For growers, the stories offer examples to compare with their own operations, including how one business approached efficiency investments and how another is reorganizing after a fire. The plant and production features also connect breeding and crop-management choices with grower performance and customer appeal. The roundup does not quantify the financial results or establish that the approaches will produce the same outcomes elsewhere.
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Ten Stories in One Issue
The October issue spans business management, production and technology, rather than focusing on a single crop or development. Its 10 listed stories range from cost-control projects and succession planning to native plant programs, lighting, orchid irrigation and branching methods.
Greenhouse Grower’s source page presents the collection as a slideshow and links to the individual stories. It also says a digital version of the issue is available. The supplied roundup provides short descriptions of each feature, not the full reporting or detailed results from those articles.
““There was a lot of information to cover in Greenhouse Grower Magazine’s October 2026 issue.””
— Greenhouse Grower
Details Beyond the Roundup
The published summary does not provide specific savings figures, project costs or payback periods for Green Valley Greenhouse, nor does it detail the five continuity-planning questions. It also gives no production or revenue data for Spring Creek Growers’ native program.
The roundup does not identify particular lighting products or provide comparative performance results. It describes the Floricultura sensor and crop-weight approach but does not report measurement values or quantify effects on irrigation or crop outcomes. The extent of damage and the rebuilding schedule at Grower Direct Farms are also not stated. Those details would need to be checked in the linked full stories.
Read the Full Feature Reports
Readers can use the magazine’s slideshow to reach the individual feature stories and consult the digital issue for the full articles. Those reports are the next source for detailed methods, operational figures and grower or researcher explanations that are absent from the roundup.
The October issue page does not announce a future publication date, follow-up study or new industry program tied to these stories. Further developments, including the results of rebuilding work and the performance of the production and technology approaches described, are not specified in the supplied material.
Key Questions
What is covered in Greenhouse Grower’s October 2026 issue?
The 10 stories cover energy and waste costs, business continuity, native plants, lighting, technology adoption, perennial breeding, orchid irrigation data, post-fire rebuilding and branching in bedding crops.
Which greenhouse received the 2026 Operation of the Year recognition?
Spring Creek Growers is identified by Greenhouse Grower as its 2026 Operation of the Year. The issue roundup says the business grew a small group of native crops into its second-largest program.
What does the issue say about greenhouse technology?
The roundup describes supplier work on more efficient and adaptable lighting and a separate feature on risks associated with adopting technology too quickly. It also covers wireless sensors and crop-weight data in orchid irrigation.
Where can readers find the full articles?
Greenhouse Grower says its issue page includes a slideshow with links to the stories and access to a digital version of the magazine.
Source: greenhousegrower.com
