HORTUS Technical Services services
Water & Hydroponics Service
Water testing is usually done to establish the source of some nutritional anomaly in the plant root / soil relationship. Continuous use of a poor quality water source may have extremely detrimental effects on plant health and / or soil structure. The range of water analysis conducted by Hortus Technical Services allows for a complete picture to be established between the soil, plant and water relationship. From analysing the suitability of your irrigation water to maintaining nutrient balance in your hydroponic solution – Hortus’s AgPro water analysis is the test of choice for leading growers.Crop Pest and Disease Monitoring
AgPro is a specialised program developed by Hortus Technical Services to deliver professional IPM strategies across a wide variety of crops, pests and growing regions. It enables our certified HORTUS consultants to efficiently monitor pest population locations, thresholds and implement cost effective and environmentally sound pest management strategies. The AgPro app for iphone interfaces with our extensive IPM database to enable monitoring to be done easily and efficiently in the field and the data can be transmitted via 3G back at the office for reporting purposes. The added benefit of using the iphone are that they have an inbuilt Global Positioning System (GPS) so monitoring sites can be accurately identified and treated. IPM is not a new science but AgPro is definitely a revolution in the way IPM is effectively and efficiently delivered.