Archive for October, 2007
Hiring a Grower
Monday, October 29th, 2007We finally found the grower we wanted after scouring tons of resumes and conducting several interviews. When I first started blogging, I wrote a post about what qualities I was searching for in a grower. We feel comfortable that she has the education and the ambition to be successful, however she has little production/growing experience. […]
Poinsettia Update: 10/27/07
Saturday, October 27th, 2007I starting to get burned out on the poinsettias but we still have a ways to go. Luckily, unrooted cuttings will be arriving soon and we will transplant pansies in a couple of weeks.
Poinsettia Production: Residue on the Leaves
Monday, October 22nd, 2007We have had a bit of residue on our leaves during our production this year and I’ve been thinking about how to eliminate this unsightly problem. I have been given the recommendation of using a spreader sticker or wetting agent in our water. So from now on our water will contain Suffusion wetting […]
Poinsettia Premium Red Bract Development: 10/21/07
Sunday, October 21st, 2007It’s been warm here like most of the U.S. and I think we are a little early with our color. But I’m trying to grow them cooler to keep them from coming on too quickly.
Poinsettia Premium Red Bract Development
Friday, October 19th, 2007I want to take a picture of the same plant every week for the rest of the season until these guys are out of here. I’ve seen plenty of pictures of this type of bract progression in books and trade magazines but I’m going to have my own.
Here’s the first one, this is Premium […]
Poinsettia Production Update
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Our crops are coming along nicely and here is the visual evidence:
I am pretty happy with the status and quality of all our pot sizes but I have a few concerns.
1. Our calcium levels are low in our tissue samples and must be increased right away. I will change our fertilizer this […]
Poinsettia Production: Early Bonzi Drench
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Over at the Ask a Grower Forum, a grower from Michigan posted a question about Early Bonzi Micro Drenches on Poinsettias.
It has been an unusually warm summer for many growers and this has created some growth control issues in many greenhouses. I have been struggling to keep one or two varieties from getting away […]
Pansy plugs: Spring is here!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007It’s awfully early to be talking about spring bedding plant production but we’ve already sown our first batch of pansies and they have started to emerge. I have learned over the years to put a light Arest application on the plug trays right before the cotyledons start to emerge. This eliminates any early stretching and […]
