GrowerTalks

November 2024 Issue

Vol. 88 No. 7

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Start Clean, Stay Clean

by Tina Smith

NEWSLETTERS

Read and subscribe to a variety of Newsletters tailored to your industry interests.

COVER STORY

BMPs for PGRs

Christopher J. Currey

Best management practices for advanced PGRs during the young plant stages.

FEATURES

Don’t Stress Over Geranium Propagation

Roberto Lopez & Charlie Smith

Tank mixing PGRs to prevent geranium lower leaf yellowing and promote rooting.

Greener Growth

Carla Dempsey

AFE’s Sustainabloom initiative is a resource hub for growers.

No Such Thing as Too Chill

Danielle DelConte & Dr. William Miller

Evaluating the susceptibility of cut flower gerbera to chilling injury.

Plant Physiology for Growers

Lynn Griffith

Knowing how different parts of a plant function is more complex than growers need or want to know. However, being aware of a few basic principles can help us become better growers day in and day out.

Start Clean, Stay Clean

Tina Smith

Attention to greenhouse sanitation and disinfecting are steps that you can take to help ensure the best crop quality and avoid any issues.

Sticking Head Start

Dr. Roger C. Styer

Using rooting hormones and rooting stimulants in propagation of ornamental cuttings.

What We Can Learn from Proven Winners’ Customers (Part 2)

Chris Beytes

What are consumers thinking about gardening in general and our products specifically? It’s what we all want to know! But how do we reach them to ask our burning questions?

CULTURE NOTES

Making Magic

Lauren Blume

PGR best practices and production tips for Monarch Magic Ageratum.

Scoop Up Impulse Sales With Senetti Blue Spoon

Delilah Onofrey

While we’ve seen spoon-shaped flowers in other genera, in Senetti it creates a striking bicolor look.

Growers Talk Production

True Leaders Admit When They’re Wrong

Brian Groves

There’s a time to stand firm in the storm and there’s also a time to run to safety and admit that the wrong decision was made originally.

COLUMNS

Inside Look

At Capacity

Jennifer Zurko

I have come to accept that for the rest of my life I will be dealing with my at-capacity mental hard drive.

Acres & Acres

Three Truths

Chris Beytes

n the 45 years I’ve been in horticulture, I’ve learned some truths about our little industry that make it the greatest industry on the planet.

Growers Talk Business

Forecasting: An Ever-Evolving Business Plan

Susie Raker

Forecasting is one of the most important tools for running our business and it’s a continuous process. It never really starts and it never really stops.

Guest Column

The Plume, the Spike & the Twisted

Lowell Halvorson

The distinctive, sometimes outlandish flower gesture of celosia comes in various forms. It’s eye catching and it sells.

DEPARTMENTS

JZ on D.C.

USCIS Reaches H-2B Visa Cap or First Half of FY 2025

Jennifer Zurko

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it has reached the congressionally mandated cap for H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year 2025.

GT IN BRIEF

AAS Honors Mitch Hanes With Breeders’ Cup

AAS to Host International Plant Trialing Conference in ’25

AmericanHort, HRI Respond to Newly Detected Phytophthora

Congrats, Dr. Liz Felter!

Hort School Enrollment Hits 10-Year High

On The Move

Plugs (and Poinsettias) at the Plug & Cutting Conference

SAF Winners From Their Convention

SePRO Gets New Financial Partners

Sidney B. Meadows Fund Awards $24,000 in Scholarships

COLUMNISTS

Chris Beytes

Jennifer Zurko

Albert Grimm

Art Parkerson

Paul Pilon

Bill Swanekamp

Amy Morris

Terri McEnaney

Stan Vander Waal

Austin Bryant

Stephanie Saccomano

VIDEOS

Watch More

The Robo Cut Autonomous Tissue Culture Propagation Robot

Ball Seed Customer Days 2024!

Critical Chemistries (Recorded Live at Cultivate’24) with JC Chong

What's New From the Cultivate'24 Trade Show

Trending Now: Ball Seed & Philips Lighting Solutions

Trending Now: Floxcor Fungicide from Corteva

Trending Now: PDSI’s Better Boxwood

Darwin Perennials Day 2024

The Best Poinsettia for ... Part 2 - Whites, Novelties, and the Best of All Time

The Best Poinsettia for ... Part 1 - the REDS

Proven Winner Color Choice Shrubs for 2025

Proven Winners Perennials for 2025

Proven Winner Annuals for 2025

CAST 2024: Jaldety

CAST 2024: PRUDAC

CAST 2024: Hishtil

CAST 2024: Cohen

CAST 2024: Benary

CAST 2024: Takii

CAST 2024: Danziger

CAST 2024: HilverdaFlorist

CAST 2024: Syngenta

CAST 2024: Kientzler North America

CAST 2024: Dümmen Orange Perennials

CAST 2024: Dümmen Orange Annuals

CAST 2024: Sakata Seed Annuals

CAST 2024: Schoneveld

CAST 2024: Hem Genetics

CAST 2024: Westhoff

CAST 2024: Green Fuse Botanicals

CAST 2024: Plant Development Services, Inc.

CAST 2024: PlantHaven

CAST 2024: Pacific Plug & Liner

CAST 2024: Beekenkamp

CAST 2024: Suntory

CAST 2024: PanAmerican Seed

CAST 2024: Ball FloraPlant

CAST 2024: Selecta One

CAST 2024: Morel Cyclamen

CAST 2024: Burpee

A Tour of IPM 2024—the World's Largest Horticulture Trade Show

Trending Now: PDSI

Trending Now: Darwin Perennials

Marvin Teaches Us a New Word - Cyathium

Poinsettias are NOT Poisonous! A public service announcement from GrowerTalks magazine

GrowerTalks at the Heimos Poinsettia Open House 2023

TRENDING NOW

Morel Diffusion
Petit Moulin

Rimol Greenhouse Systems
Matterhorn Greenhouse

Advancing Alternatives
High Tunnel Ventilation Automation System

Mossify Growers
Cost-Effective and Easy-to-Install Solutions

Dümmen Orange
Cheerful Red Garden Mum

Harnois Greenhouses
TunnelPro Plus

Nominate a Young Grower Today!

Congrats to the 2024 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award winner, Drew Groezinger from Clara Joyce Flowers, Stockton, Illinois!

Do you know of an excellent, hard-working professional under the age of 35? You should nominate them for the 2025 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award! For the last 20 years, we’ve recognized young horticulturists for standing out from the crowd in this tough business, who—for whatever noble reasons—have chosen to have a career in this industry.

After three finalists are chosen, each is asked to write guest editorials for the June issue of GrowerTalks, gets a free trip to Cultivate’25 and, while they’re in Columbus, attend a special dinner with Anna Ball and other industry luminaries. The winner is announced at the Unplugged event during Cultivate’25, will be the subject of our September issue cover story and serve as one of our judges for next year’s award.

An extra special thanks goes to Ball Horticultural Company, BASF and AmericanHort for sponsoring this year’s award!

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