In Thief in the night, Svensson experts explain the threat night-time heat loss poses to growing operations in hot regions. We provide our own experiences and strategies and we detail for the first time what our side-by-side greenhouse trials are showing. 

So what do growers say? Well, Daniel Baños at Natural Baños puts it like this.

"Night-time temperatures have improved, both the minimum and average. Humidity during the entire day has also improved,” says Daniel Baños. “The advantage of having a screen is that we can open it whenever we want based on what the crop needs,” he adds.

Currently, Svensson is trialling a Harmony 3845 screen with Spanish grower, Jose Antonion from Agricola Gapemo. When we spoke to Svensson's local climate consultants about one third of the way through a new trial, the Harmony-screened crop (above right) was showing promising results. 

"It’s clearly taller, there is more fruit, and the peppers are sweeter and have a thicker fruit wall – this is a salad pepper so these things are important,” said Francisco Usero.