Poinsettias
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 […]
Poinsettia Production: Graphical Tracking
Saturday, August 18th, 2007I’ve started a few graphs with the Ecke On Target Program and, so far, it isn’t my first choice as a graphing program for poinsettias. It seems to be a bit cumbersome and difficult to move through. The directions aren’t very clear and it’s not as straight-forward as the UNH FloraTrack. Time will tell if […]
Poinsettia Production: Graphical Tracking
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Now that we have started to pinch our poinsettias, it is time to get our graphical tracking started. We use the graphical tracking to ensure that we are on pace to meet our specs in terms of plant height and to help us make growing decisions such as growth regulator, temperature, and fertility. […]
Poinsettia Production: Pinching Poinsettias
Sunday, August 5th, 2007I have always pinched poinsettias approximately 5 weeks after sticking them (when direct- sticking). You really should pinch them when they are ready so you can’t always pinch at the 5 week mark, but that is the norm in my experience. Our first ones to be pinched are the 10 inch and they were ready […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Poinsettia Propagation. We Have Roots!
Friday, July 6th, 2007Yesterday we found our first roots. Now it’s time to get the EC up in the soil and push these roots out so we can get them off the mist. By the end of the weekend we should be close to weening the poinsettias completely off the mist and now we must build […]
Poinsettia propagation week 2.
Monday, July 2nd, 2007It’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 […]
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