If you are interested in renting greenhouse or chamber space, please contact the Greenhouse Manager. Every effort will be made to provide the appropriate growth space.

There are 14 evaporative cooled and 6 air conditioned greenhouses as well as many different sizes of growth chambers. To see sq. footage and space fee details you can look at the Greenhouse and Growth Chamber Space Inventory. To see lighting information in greenhouses and chambers look at the Greenhouse and Chamber Lighting Inventory.  You will need to fill out an Internal Services Form to document your account number for billing purposes.

All plant material receives plant care unless the growth facility user requests otherwise. The fee for plant care will be charged even if the user declines some components. The greenhouse staff may provide additional services at an hourly rate of $30.00/hr.

• Watering 365 days/year
• Pest and disease scouting
• Cultural, biological, or chemical pest control measures in consultation with facility users
• Environmental control
• Photoperiod control
• Graphing of temperatures upon request
• Greenhouse or growth chamber maintenance
• Routine greenhouse or growth chamber sanitation
• Plant material autoclaving (material must be properly harvested, bagged and taken to the autoclave area by the user). Labs that have pathogen or pest infected plants should make other arrangements for autoclaving their plant material to prevent the spread of the pathogen or pest.
• Routine application of fertilizer in accordance with user request
• Routine washing of inventoried pots and trays. If labs have ownership of pots or trays to be washed, they can use the greenhouse pot washing area if available. If the greenhouse staff is asked to wash the pots or trays a $30.00/ hr. charge is applied.

Growth facility users must share the responsibility for quality plant care with the greenhouse staff. Open communication regarding the monitoring and maintenance of plant demands will facilitate optimum plant development, reduce problems and promote productive relationships between users and staff.

User responsibilities include:

• Keeping growth areas clean. Supplies should not be stored in the greenhouse or growth chambers. Lockers may be provided to the projects for supply storage.
• Removing unwanted plants from growth areas immediately after finishing with them.
• • • Non-transgenic plants must be put in a covered container and taken directly to the outside, green compost bin, provided there are NO transgenic plants in the growth area.
• • • Transgenic plants must be bagged inside the growth room and taken directly to the autoclave area.  Remember, if even one plant in the growth space is transgenic, all plants in the growth room must be considered transgenic and must be autoclaved.
• Communicating plant care issues (insects and diseases, watering, fertility, etc.).
• Keeping growth and work areas sanitary and orderly.
• Using proper pot size and pot filling technique to reduce watering demands.
• Keeping plants staked, tied, pruned and properly spaced at all times. Proper spacing will ensure air movement as well as provide access for watering and pest control measures.
• Placing pots only on bench space, not on floors or windowsills.
• Removing any plant parts such as fruit, flowers, and plant parts or clippings from benches and floors and disposing of properly.
• Removing all the soil in the dirty pots and flats before returning them to be washed.
• Washing pots or trays that are not part of the growth facility inventory. The greenhouse staff may wash them for an hourly service charge.

All plants should be germinated from seed in the BTI growth facility or come from our tissue culture department. If plants must be moved to the BTI growth rooms from outside BTI, prior arrangements must be made with the Greenhouse Manager for plants to be inspected for pests or disease. These plants may be required to be quarantined resulting in a space charge.