The California Florida Plant Company, L.P., is rapidly expanding to accommodate the international demand for its custom lab and advanced propagation and horticultural technologies.

According to Margaret Hasegawa, director of marketing and new business development, "We're dedicating more and more of our resources to lab and propagation services in response to the growing demands of customers worldwide for a research and development facility that is willing find solutions to unique challenges. We pride ourselves on successfully handling projects that other nurseries have rejected as too difficult." The company has custom propagation contracts with numerous domestic and international companies, including producers of nuts, fruits, grapes and a broad selection of ornamentals. Hasegawa continues, "The key to our unusually high success rate is that we work very closely with our customers in a truly collaborative environment."

California Florida's 650,000 square foot, state of the art facility houses growing areas along with a research and development laboratory dedicated to advancing propagation and horticultural technologies, while maintaining strict adherence to sanitation protocols designed to prevent contamination by pests and viruses. The company specializes in the development and maintenance of clean mother stock in tissue culture. Plants in this program are extensively tested to ensure the absence of bacterial, fungal and viral infections. Micropropagation protocols cover a wide variety of herbaceous and woody plants. Our expertise and facilities enable us to develop protocols for production of a full range of products including in vitro rooted plantlets to hardened liners to finished potted plants ready for retail sale.

Services include plant clean-up, heat treatment and meristem culture, acclimatization of in vitro plants, proprietary horticultural technologies, grafted and own-rooted plants, root stocks, initiation and maintenance of clean mother stock, and embryo and seed rescue.

Headquartered in Salinas, CA, the California Florida Plant Company, L.P. is one of the premier suppliers of top-quality plants, lab services, and advanced propagation and horticultural technologies to the floral industry worldwide. For more information, please visit www.cfpc.com. -##-