GrowerTalks

November 2023 Issue

Vol. 87 No. 7

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This Month ...

Upscaling Your Customer Contact

by Jim Gustke

NEWSLETTERS

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

COVER STORY

The Problem With Purple

Charlie Smith, Nathan Jahnke, Colin Brice & Roberto Lopez

Collaborative research determines how to prevent chlorosis and undesirable purple pigmentation that can sometimes develop on cuttings rooted under LED supplemental lighting.

FEATURES

Common Propagation Mistakes

Lynn Griffith

Here are some things that propagators often do wrong.

Control Botrytis Blight With Alternative Products

Julie Martens Forney

Improve your arsenal in the battle against Botrytis with alternative biorational products—materials that aren’t synthetic fungicides, but do help control the disease.

Targeted Heating

Jamie Tuinstra

Enhancing greenhouse efficiency with heating solutions.

Tissue Culture: The Next Frontier

Bill Calkins

Over the past 50 years, commercial greenhouse production has been revolutionized many times—from seed to plugs to vegetative material. The newest frontier for professional growers is tissue culture (TC), defined as “the growth of cells derived from living tissue in an artificial medium.”

Upscaling Your Customer Contact

Jim Gustke

Key questions growers and retailers should ask to choose the right VoIP provider.

PEST MANAGEMENT

Using Banker Plants & Associated Beneficials

Russell Freiert & Suzanne Wainwright-Evans

Metrolina Greenhouses’ journey into the commitment to reduce their pesticide footprint began with the introduction of commercially produced beneficial insects and mites, and later incorporating banker plant systems.

COLUMNS

Inside Look

Always a Work in Progress

Jennifer Zurko

Nothing is ever “done,” whether it’s in your personal or professional life. When something happens, that’s not the end of it.

Acres & Acres

30 Years of Learnin'

Chris Beytes

In the 30 years I’ve been with GrowerTalks, I’ve learned a few things.

Growers Talk Business

Pushing Propagation Into the Future

Terri McEnaney

Propagators of today have their own sets of challenges, yet they have many tools at their fingertips to guide their way to healthy, strong liners.

Guest Column

A Friend in Verbenas

Lowell Halvorson

Over the past two decades our industry has turned toward combo baskets in a big way and no crop has benefited from this trend more than verbena.

DEPARTMENTS

JZ on D.C.

Highlights from the 2023 Impact Washington Summit

Jennifer Zurko

When more than 100 horticulture professionals descended on our nation’s capital in late September, the chance of an impending government shutdown was looming over everything.

GT IN BRIEF

"Tall Terril" Inducted Into SAF Hall of Fame

AAS Honors Industry Contributors

Grocery Merger News

Marvin and Dwight: Our New Ambassadors

On the Move

Poinsettia Sneak Peek

Valent to Build New Oregon Fungi Facility

COLUMNISTS

Chris Beytes

Jennifer Zurko

Albert Grimm

Art Parkerson

Paul Pilon

Bill Swanekamp

Amy Morris

Terri McEnaney

Stan Vander Waal

Austin Bryant

Stephanie Saccomano

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Nominate a Young Grower Today!

Congrats to the 2023 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award winner, Matthew Tyson from Costa Farms, Miami, Florida!

Do you know of an excellent, hard-working professional under the age of 35? You should nominate them for the 2024 GrowerTalks/Ball Horticultural Company Young Grower Award! For the last 19 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’24 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’24, 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!