Crops
Poinsettia Update Dummen Premium Red and Others: 11/8/07
Thursday, November 8th, 2007More pictures from our poinsettia crop. I have included one from Premium Picasso as well. These are both Dummen varieties and they are part of the Premium series which is one of the best early poinsettia series. I really like Premium Picasso as a novelty. Excellent bract, similar to Fischer’s DaVinci, but much better in […]
Vegetative Annual Propagation: Osteospermum
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007We use overhead mist delivered through our boom to propagate all our unrooted cuttings and today we stuck a few hundred trays , the majority of which were Osteospermum. I find that Osteo’s are often a challenge to root but, as with most unrooted cuttings, it all depends of the quality […]
Poinsettia Update: 11/2/2007
Friday, November 2nd, 2007Here’s another color update. Dummen’s Premium Red 6 inch pot.
Our 6.5 inch Premium Red crop:
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 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 […]
Poinsettia Production: Irrigating with Water Collectors
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Well, I’ve been busy lately and haven’t been posting as often as I want to but I plan to return to regular posting right now. In the greenhouse, we’ve shipped nearly all our mums and it was a decent year so far. I won’t get too excited until they’re all gone but so far so […]
Poinsettia Fungicide: Prevent Defense
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Our poinsettia crop will receive their second preventative fungicide drench tomorrow and this is the application that we tend to struggle to successfully apply. In previous seasons, our poinsettias tend to start showing signs of root rot after the second fungicide drench. I concluded last year that several factors cause this outbreak of pythium but […]
Poinsettia IPM: Whitefly Control
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007So it’s time to start thinking about what I will use for whitefly control this year. Actually, I’ve been thinking about it for a while now and I think I’ll try to use a spray program this year instead of a systemic imidaclorprid drench. I’ve always drenched my poinsettias with Marathon or in […]
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