Crops & Blends
Learn how to create and manage crops and blends in Microgreen Manager. This section covers crop setup, growth timing, and how blends affect production calculations.
How to Clone a Crop in Microgreen Manager
Cloning is a fast way to replicate a crop to create a new crop with similar parameters.
How to Edit Your Crop Parameters
You can edit all aspects of the crop parameters, whether you imported our default crops or created custom crops. This guide won't cover adding or editing products, or cloning or archiving crops.
How to Edit Your Blends (Edit/Add Products, Clone, & Archive)
Learn how to edit existing blends, add or remove products, clone blends for faster setup, and archive blends you no longer use.
How to Create Custom Blends
A combination of two or more crops. Each crop in a blend contributes to the weight of the blend based on a percentage.
How to Edit Your Products (Crops)
A product is a predefined container size for a crop. A product includes a size and a unit, grams or ounces, with the option to include a price.
How to Bulk Edit Your Crops
Bulk editing your crops lets you quickly update many varieties at once. However, it's an advanced feature meant for users who know the software well.
How to Export Your Crops to CSV
We offer the ability to export your crop data to a CSV file for analysis or safe keeping.
How to Bulk Import Your Own Crops
We offer a template for bulk importing your own crops. Download the file from the Crops page. Read the instructions. Add your crops, and then import the file to fill your crops dashboard.
How to Archive & Unarchive Crops
You can archive a crop when you no longer grow it. Archiving removes the crop from your dashboard while keeping it in the database. If you change your mind in the future, you can unarchive it. An archived crop won't show up in the crop dropdowns for plantings or orders.
How to Use the Crop Grow Timeline Calculator
The grow timeline calculator helps you quickly see when grow steps will occur based on a selected start date or delivery date.
How to Create Custom Crops
If you don't like our default crops, you can create custom crops from scratch.
How to View Your Crop Parameters
Each crop page details everything you need to know about that variety. The first section looks at key factors, such as yield per tray, sow density, and safety margin. Next are the products, the predefined container sizes for the crop. Finally, you'll see the steps required to grow the crop.
How to Add Default Crops
Microgreen Manager comes preloaded with 30 of the most common microgreen varieties. We provide the option to add one or more default crops with a few clicks. Each crop has a name, yield, sow density, safety margin, grow steps, and more.
How to Create “Products” + Add/Edit Sizes, Prices, & Customer Segments
Learn how to create products that customers can order, including selecting crops/blends, sizes, and customer segments. Products are what connect your growing system to your sales workflow.
What is a Crop?
Defines what a crop represents inside Microgreen Manager and how it’s used throughout the system. Crops are the foundation for plantings, yields, and products.
What’s a Crop Safety Margin?
Explains the purpose of a safety margin and how it protects against under-production. Safety margins add buffer volume to your planting calculations.
What is Crop Yield? How to Edit Yield
Learn what crop yield means and how it affects tray calculations. This article also shows how to edit yields to better match real-world results.
What is Crop Grow Time? How to Edit Grow Time
Explains grow time and how it determines planting dates relative to harvest. You’ll also learn how to adjust grow times for your environment.
What are Crop Steps? How to Edit Grow Steps
Describes crop steps and how they break the grow cycle into actionable tasks. Editing steps lets you customize workflows to match your farm.
What is Crop Sow Density? How to Edit Sow Density
Learn how sow density affects tray planning. This article explains how to set and adjust sow density values.
What is Crop Harvest Buffer Time? How to Edit Harvest Buffer Time
Explains harvest buffer time and why it’s used to protect against timing issues. Adjusting this value helps smooth harvest scheduling.