Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences at UH Manoa

08/22/2017

Check us out at the Welina Manoa event!

08/18/2017

Welcoming new students at the CTAHR new student orientation.

06/30/2017

Last year's Princettia plant sale was featured in Suntory North America's industry bulletin.

Growers who are finalizing their poinsettia bookings will want to make sure they add the new Princettia varieties, including Pure White.

05/13/2017

UH Mānoa students Robert Saito and Derek Woodruff win first place with their company Herbavore.

03/06/2017

TPSS at the recent Manoa Experience open house for prospective undergraduate students.

03/02/2017

TPSS alumni, Robert Saito, was recently named as a finalist for Hawaii Venture Capital Association's Student Entrepreneur of the Year award, featured in the March 2017 Hawaii Business magazine. Congratulations!

Winners will be announced at the HVCA Gala Awards Ceremony at the Waialae Country Club on Feb. 23.

02/25/2017

TPSS Associate Professor Kent Kobayashi mentors UH Manoa student on growing vegetables using energy efficient LEDs.

UH Mānoa student Aleca Borsuk’s work with ancient grains may help feed future missions to Mars.

02/08/2017

Getting ready for Valentine's Day. Students from the TPSS 120E Plants for People: Ornamentals learn how to make flower arrangements and bouquets. Mahalo to our generous donors: Green Point Nurseries (anthuriums), Maui Agricultural Research Center (proteas and leucospermums), Lyon Arboretum (tropicals and cutfoliage) and Magoon Research Station (cutfoliage and cutflowers).

Students in the Tropical Plants and Soil Sciences 120E course - Plants for People (Ornamentals) created arrangements and bouquets under the direction of faculty members (and CTAHR alumni) Orville Baldos and Teresita Amore. A big mahalo to Green Point Nurseries ( greenpointnursery.com ) and Maui Coun...

12/10/2016

Poinsettias grown by TPSS 364 (Horticultural Practices) students adorn the lobbies of St. John Plant Science Lab and Gilmore Hall.

12/09/2016

Congratulations to the Hort Society and TPSS Grad Student Organization on a successful poinsettia and bake sale!

Follow the progress of undergrad and grad students as they grow Suntory Princettias for this year's Christmas Plant Sale

11/29/2016

Poinsettias are ready! Stop by on Friday at the Campus Center Second Floor (10:00 am til sold out) to purchase your poinsettia.

11/29/2016

Princettias are ready!