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Poinsettia propagation week 2.
By admin | July 2, 2007
It’s Monday and our first batch of poinsettias are now a week old. We’ve started to see a little callus and they are requiring less mist. I have started to foilar feed them with 100ppm 17-5-17 and I will begin to add some fertilizer to the soil tomorrow. I feel it’s important to start raising the EC of the soil now that I’m reducing the mist. As soon as the roots start to emerge from the callus, I want them to start taking up some nutrients. For the foliar feed, I’m only doing it in the morning for two hours, or about 4 passes with our boom. I should start seeing some roots by the middle to end of the week if all goes well. Today we started sticking our cuttings for this week. Unfortunately, there is a holiday right in the middle of the week which is complicating an important week of poinsettia propagation. I had to work extra hard to get our cuttings to show up on Monday and Tuesday of this week instead of Thursday and Friday. We are even going to the airport to pick up our cuttings tomorrow so that we can have time to get them all stuck before the holiday. The cuttings arrived in pretty good shape but we found a few bad leaves on a certain variety. By the end of the day tomorrow, we will have all of our 8 inch and 6.5 inch poinsettia stuck. The only bad part about getting our cuttings stuck on Monday/Tuesday is that we have more cuttings to watch on the 4th.
Topics: Poinsettias |
