Archive for July, 2007
Poinsettia Production: Preventative Fungicide
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007We have managed to get some nice roots out of our little poinsettia cuttings and now we must do whatever is necessary to protect them. It’s time for a preventative fungicide drench to keep pythium and rhizoctonia from attacking our beautiful, white roots.
Now before we go and drench a bunch of expensive chemicals […]
Ask a grower plug from Chris Beytes
Saturday, July 28th, 2007As many of the visitors to this site know, Ask a Grower received a great plug from Chris Beytes of Grower Talks magazine on Thursday. I am grateful for the free pub and it has certainly increased the traffic to the site. My only complaint (if you can call it a complaint) is that all […]
Biological Control of Greenhouse Pests
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007I have decided to put together a biological control program for some of our young plants this year. I was fortunate enough to gain experience using biological controls at a previous job and I feel very comfortable using them. I haven’t started a biological control program yet because the timing and conditions haven’t been right. […]
Poinsettia Propagation: Updates and Pictures
Monday, July 23rd, 2007We have started to grow on our first batch of poinsettia, the 10 inch pots, and we are in the process of setting up the plant for pinching in about a week to 10 days. Below is a good picture of what we are working with now and I am pleased overall. I […]
Pinch vs. Unpinched Update: Garden Mums
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007I wanted to post an update on our pinched vs. no pinched garden mum trial. Unfortunately, I was unable to locate the same plants that I photographed in my last update, but these two plants give us a similar comparison. The unpinched plant is on the left. You can see all of my posts […]
Selecting the Best Liner Size: OFA Short Course
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007The OFA Short Course wrapped up yesterday and I’d say it was a rousing success, for me anyway. I was able to visit with all the vendors that I wanted to and I attended most of the seminars I was interested in. Monday, I took in a seminar titled; Selecting the Best Liner Size. […]
Contract Greenhouse Growing: OFA Short Course
Sunday, July 15th, 2007I spent the last two days at the OFA Short Course attending seminars and today at the Trade Show. I want to give a few highlights from an excellent seminar I attended today about contract growing. The focus of the seminar was how to be successful with the challenges of contract growing. […]
Poinsettia Propagation. We’re Off Mist.
Friday, July 13th, 2007We are completely off mist for our first poinsettias stuck week 26. The roots are to the edge of the pot and we are working on bringing up the EC levels and maintaining uniformity. Because we have multiple plants per pot, it is important that we carefully ween the cuttings off the mist […]
OFA Short Course
Friday, July 13th, 2007Tomorrow marks the beginning of another OFA Short Course and I am already in Ohio. I will attend a few seminars tomorrow and I’m sure I’ll have dinner with colleagues in the evening. It ’s important to go into this show with a plan because there are a ton of vendors and […]
Garden Mum. Pinch vs. No Pinch Update.
Friday, July 6th, 2007Our 8 inch garden mums have been in the ground for about a week so I thought I would post a picture of our pinch vs. no pinch trials. Every variety we are growing will have some pinched and some unpinched plants so we should have an excellent trial when it’s all over.
This particular […]
