Welcome to the HydraFiber Resource Library
From trialing tips and growing practices, to the set up and maintenance of your HydraFiber Processing Unit (HPU) and HydraFiber Expander (HE) machines, find everything you need to grow better plants and better margins right here.
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Getting Good Filling Results with HydraFiber Blends: Without Soil Conditioner
See what proper filling of non-conditioned soil looks like with the HPU machine.
Container Filling with HydraFiber
Instructions for adjusting your machines and practices to fill your pots and six packs.
HydraFiber Inclusion Rates
See the roots of plants grown with 30, 40 and 50 percent HydraFiber in the mix.
Calibrachoa Lime Rate Reduction Study
Lime rate study detailing how increasing the amount of HydraFiber in your mix, and decreasing peat, reduces the amount of lime needed to maintain pH levels.
The Science Behind Managing Your pH
A University of New Hampshire study tests how to manage pH levels among substrates.
Managing Your pH Overview
A study demonstrates how HydraFiber requires less lime to manage pH than peat.
HydraFiber Physical Characteristics
An overview of the characteristics of HydraFiber and how that allows for higher air space and water-holding capacity.
Profile/AgriNomix Container Filling Trials
AgriNomix's comprehensive guide for adjusting your equipment to the structure of HydraFiber and how to reorganize the flow of blends out of the hopper in order to get good fill.
Techniques for Hand-Blending HydraFiber Into Substrates for Trial Purposes
See this PDF for tips on hand-blending raw HydraFiber substrate with other components to create your growing mix.
Pad Mixing Guide for HydraFiber EZ Blend
If you pad mix, follow these guidelines for optimizing yield, managing water and including supplemental nitrogen (N) in your HydraFiber EZ Blend mixes.
How Profile Products is Changing the Game in Plant Production
Learn more about the path HydraFiber forged in the journey to become the 2019 “GameChanger of the Year Award" winner.
Nitrogen Immobilization
An explanation of why there is no nitrogen draw down with HydraFiber, at the correct rates.
How Growers are Evolving to HydraFiber
Hear HydraFiber success stories from growers all across the country.
HydraFiber Heroes: Brent Troost, Colorpoint LLC, Illinois
Head Grower, Brent Troost, of Colorpoint Illinois, shares how easy his transition to HydraFiber was.
HydraFiber Heroes: Fernando Hernandez, Colorpoint LLC, Illinois
The Operations Manager of Colorpoint Illinois discusses the easy transition to HydraFiber in their Chicago greenhouse.