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PGF
Services
The
PGF maintains a variety of greenhouses and controlled environment
growth chambers and rooms for use. A multi-tiered fee system is
in place. Providing the PGF manager with a completed space
request form is required to use any of the facilities. We stock
a variety of supplies which include a
standard potting mix and other potting media, a variety of pots
and trays, and fertilizers, labels, and stakes. PGF
staff will assist or advise you with growing your plants within
a controlled environment. All users are required to maintain their
plants and the growing areas they are assigned to. Please ask for
assistance.
Goods
and Services to be provided for PGF Greenhouses and Controlled Environment
Growth Rooms and Chambers:
1.
Assign and monitor space use of all PGF greenhouses and growth room/chamber
equipment:
- Assist
or advise user needs
- Set
and monitor control systems
- Supply
and deliver, requested, defined, PGF growing supplies
- Collect
Environment data upon request
- New
users will be oriented and trained for safety
- Supply
fertilizer from defined PGF supply
- Supply
watering equipment
2.
Perform or coordinate all PGF greenhouse and growth room/chamber
repairs, maintenance, and upgrades:
- Controls
- Heating
- Cooling
- Supplemental
lighting (HID) (VHO)
- Irrigation
- Glazing
- HAF
fans
- Benches
- Electrical
3.
Perform or coordinate all PGF equipment maintenance
- Fork
lift
- Tractor
- Vehicles
- Steam
pasteurization cart
- Auto
Clave
- Pesticide
sprayers
- Thresher
- Carts,
wheels barrows, rubbish containers, soil bins
- Fertigation
systems
- Smith
R3 and R4 fertilizer injectors
- Power
washer
- Shade
applicator
- Hand
and power tools
- Instruments
- pH,
EC and light meters
- Electronic
scales
- Microscopes
- Electronic
test equipment
4.
Perform pest management program:
- Monitor
and control insects
- Perform
Worker Protection Standard (WPS) safety
training for all PGF users
- Manage
pesticide inventory and storage
- PGF
staff maintain pesticide applicator license
- maintain
applicator supplies and equipment (respirators, spray suits, cleaning
supplies)
5.
Other:
- Maintain
soil deposit sites (2)
- Auto
Clave GMO and other materials requiring destruction
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