Susan Parent
Horticulture Specialist
Eastern Canada and North Eastern US
Susan Parent is one of our active ingredient experts! She joined the Grower Services more than 10 years ago, after working for 2 decades in Premier Tech’s IR&D department, developing mycorrhizal inoculants and conducting commercial demonstrations. She has a bachelor in biology and a master’s degree in the occurrence of mycorrhizae in natural environments. Based in Québec, she covers Eastern Canada and Northeastern US. Susan is greatly involved in multiple initiatives featuring our unique active ingredients: mycorrhizae, of course, but also our biostimulants and biofungicides, in various markets (edible, ornamental, nursery). She also scouts potential issues with environment, pests and diseases, water, and provides growing media analyses with interpretation of the results. Whether she deals with new or repeat customers: “My goal is to support them in their business development or with issues they would like to resolve… I have a proactive approach in order to give them the best recommendations of products to use and for them to consider me as a reference for their practices.’’
My articles and videos
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Edible Crops: Challenges of Organic Production in Greenhouses | Webinar
With the rising consumer demand for organic certified edible crops, what challenges are organic growers facing? How biological active ingredients in growing media can be used to enhance plant growth? Susan Parent, Horticulture Specialist, answers these questions.
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Tips on Fertilizing Mums with Water Soluble Fertilizer
Young plants and flowering mums require lower fertilizer application rates (due to slower growth rates), while mums that are actively growing require higher fertilizer application rates.
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PRO-MIX BIOFUNGICIDE & MYCORRHIZAE
PRO-MIX offers a unique growing solution with PRO-MIX BIOFUNGICIDE + MYCORRHIZAE, the most innovative and advanced growing medium in the industry.
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How Can Mycorrhizae Help Your Crops?
Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest amongst plant scientists in the field of beneficial soil organisms.
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Myth Series: Peat-Based Growing Media are Sterile
There is an assumption that peat moss and peat-based growing media are sterile.
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How Does Humidity Influence Crop Quality?
Humidity can be the most difficult environment factor to control in greenhouses.
My trainings and conferences
Past
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Webinar - Active ingredients for growing media: worth the investment. ,
May 26, 2022, Online, visit the event website
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Canadian Greenhouse Conference,
October 7 - 8, 2017, Niagara Falls, ON
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BFG Expo,
September 15 - 16, 2015, Cleveland, OH
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