Virtual Grower

Choose your location in the US (Including Alaska, Hawaii, and US Territories). Build your own greenhouse including materials, heating setup, fuel type, heating schedule, supplemental lighting, and energy curtains.

Estimate fuel costs for a growing season. Estimate plant growth for a growing season. Virtual Grower is a decision support tool for greenhouse growers. Users can build a greenhouse with a variety of materials for roofs and sidewalls, design the greenhouse style, schedule temperature set points throughout the year, and predict heating costs for over 230 sites within the US. Different heating and scheduling scenarios can be predicted with few inputs.