Hortus Christmas and New Years holidays

It’s that time of year again! Our office will be closed for the Christmas and New Years holidays; please check the following dates to ensure your samples and tests don’t get lost!

Thursday, December 14th – final cutoff for Soil samples.
Wednesday, December 20th – final cutoff for ALL other samples; including Water, Sap, Microbial, Chem Residue etc.

Monday, December 25th to Friday, January 5th – office and lab closed

Samples received before this cutoff date will be tested, but we may not be able to release results until the office reopens January 8^th. For time-sensitive results, we encourage you to get samples into a prior week cutoff or notify us when you lodge the sample to request an urgent release.

Samples received after this date may be discarded (microbial or plant samples) as they are likely to degrade and be unsuitable for testing in January.

The Hortus office will reopen January 8th to collect samples, and will resume testing the week after.

We wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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