GrowerTalks

June 2018 Issue

Vol. 82 No. 2

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Precision Plant Production

by Joachim Nachmansohn

Who will be this year’s Young Grower winner?

We’ll be awarding this year’s GrowerTalks/Dümmen Orange Young Grower Award at the Unplugged event during Cultivate’18. If you’re heading to Columbus, make some time to join us Monday night to see who will be on the cover of our September issue. There will be networking, trivia, a rooftop bar, appetizers and your first drink is free!

WHEN: Monday, July 16 at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Callahan’s Columbus
520 Park Street, Columbus, Ohio

Finalists for the 2018 GrowerTalks/Dümmen Orange Young Grower Award:
Evan Barrington – May Nursery, Havana, Florida
Abby Bruce – Costa Farms, Trenton, South Carolina
Rajvir Prasher – DeVry Greenhouses, Chilliwack, British Columbia

An extra special thanks goes to Dümmen Orange and AmericanHort for sponsoring this year’s award!

VIDEOS

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Spring Trials 2018: Crysal's Alesco

Spring Trials 2018: Proven Winners Coral Creations

Spring Trials 2018: Syngenta Flowers

Spring Trials 2018: Proven Winners Perennials

Spring Trials 2018: Proven Winners Shrubs

Spring Trials 2018: Proven Winner Annuals

Spring Trials 2018: Takii

Spring Trials 2018: Beekenkamp

Spring Trials 2018: Plug Connection

Spring Trials 2018: Sakata Annuals

Spring Trials 2018: Sakata Veggies

Spring Trials 2018: Thompson & Morgan

Spring Trials 2018: Westhoff

Spring Trials 2018: Dummen Orange

Spring Trials 2018: Kientzler

Spring Trials 2018: J.Berry Nursery

Spring Trials 2018: 2Plant

Spring Trials 2018: Terra Nova

Spring Trials 2018: Dummen Orange's New Basewell Rooted Cuttings

Spring Trials 2018: Schoneveld Breeding

Spring Trials 2018: Suntory

Spring Trials 2018: Evanthia

Spring Trials 2018: Floranova

Spring Trials 2018: Green Fuse Botanicals

Spring Trials 2018: PlantHaven

Spring Trials 2018: PanAmerican Seed/Kieft Seed

Spring Trials 2018: Selecta One

Spring Trials 2018: Ball FloraPlant

Spring Trials 2018: Darwin Perennials

Spring Trials 2018: Ball Ingenuity

Spring Trials 2018: Morel

TPIE Hot (and Cool) New Products 2018

Sun-Fire Nursery at TPIE 2018

The Steinway of Flowerpots

The 2017 N.G. Heimos/Millstadt Young Plants Poinsettia Trial

Watch a 100-inch tree spade in action

NEWSLETTERS

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

COVER STORY

The Neighbors Are Complaining

As more ornamentals growers are getting into the business of controlled environment agriculture, they’re starting to deal with a brand-new issue: “light pollution” complaints from the locals.

FEATURES

A Taste of Water Quality

The first in a four-part series that gives you a sneak peek on what will be covered at this year’s Plug & Cutting Conference.

Afraid of Your Shadows?

A.J. Both & Tim Shelford

Understanding the differences in light can help you better manage it during production.

Curtainus Maximus

Are you taking full advantage of everything your curtain system can do for you?

Giving Love to the New and Old

This year's GrowerTalks/Dümmen Orange Young Grower Award finalists give us their thoughts on how growers can keep their customers excited about the bread-and-butter varieties that many consider commodities.

Precision Plant Production

Joachim Nachmansohn

A fertilizer method that pinpoints certain parts of the plant.

Which Cuts Can Cut it?

Dr. Ben A. Bergmann & Dr. John M. Dole

How North Carolina State University’s Cut Flowers and Postharvest Floriculture Program helps you choose the best ones to grow and sell.

CULTURE NOTES

Growing With Griffin

Your Secret Decoder Ring for Fertilizer Injectors

Some of us lump our fertilizer injectors in with the other technology in our lives that we try to keep at arm's length.

Growers Talk Production

Happy? At Work?

The field of horticulture is one of the last bastions where freedom to create happiness is still obtainable in the workplace.

PEST MANAGEMENT

Protect Your Christmas Poinsettias from Whiteflies

Steven Arthurs, Erfan Vafaie, Pete Krauter & Kevin M. Heinz

The warm and humid conditions required for rooting cuttings can provide an ideal environment for pests and diseases.

COLUMNS

Bright Lights … Not Just in the City

Very rarely do they get complaints about the lights coming from the greenhouse and disturbing the night sky. But it’s a different story for growers of greenhouse lettuce/greens and other vegetables.

They’ll Love Your Job

There are trendy, socially progressive ways to get young people interested in horticulture, but the more alluring and important attributes of our industry are the simple, practical ones.

Paul Talks Perennials

Does This Rattle Your Cage?

The occurrence of TRV and other viruses can be very frustrating, but they don't have to rattle your cage.

Growers Talk Business

Lasting Thoughts

Overwhelmingly, relationships developed through the industry have contributed more to our business than anything we could possibly do ourselves.

IN THIS ISSUE

SAF in the Lobby

Farm Bill Update

The Society of American Florists

On April 12, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) released his draft text of the 2018 Farm Bill.

Inspiration from a Dandelion Cutting

Anne-Marie Hardie

Ed Hebbe, owner of Circle H Growers, said his love for growing started as a child when he would pick dandelions for transplanting.

GT IN BRIEF

$1 Million More for Floriculture and Nursery Research

Monsanto/Bayer Deal Approved

New Irrigation Tool Tells if Your Water is Good Enough

Quick Q&A with Amazon

Save the Date for the 2018 California Summer Vegetable Trials

The HC Companies Investing in New Container Technology

Trials, Florida-Style

COLUMNISTS

Roger McGaughey

Abe VanWingerden

NEW PRODUCTS

Growers Supply Inc.
GrowSpan Series 1000 Greenhouses

Greenspire Global Inc.
Procidic

Van Belle Nursery Inc.
Bloomin’ Easy Panther Ninebark

Star Roses and Plants
White Knock Out Rose

Syngenta Flowers
Pretty Little Interspecific Geranium

Hen and Chicks LLC
Large Bare Root Sempervivum