Acres & Acres

Of Plants and Pizza

Chris Beytes

Is there a human on the planet who can honestly say they don’t like flowers and plants?

Cover Story

New Holiday Intros

Jennifer Zurko

Order cuttings of these new poinsettia cultivars now for this year’s holiday season sales. (P.S. There were no new whites this year.)

Features

4 Steps to Poinsettia Success

Nancy Rechcigl

Prepare for poinsettia production with proper cultural practices.

Features

Advancing Technology

Jennifer Polanz

Indoor Ag-Con is an annual event geared toward controlled environments, and lots of the new products and concepts we saw there can apply to the ornamentals market, too.

Features

Keep Your Points Disease-Free

Kurt Becker

Fogging calcium for Poinsettia Bract Edge Burn

Features

Tech On Demand Team Profile: Nick Flax

Bill Calkins

This four-part series will highlight the four members of Ball Seed’s Tech Team and the stories of how they came into horticulture.

Features

The Best Poinsettia for …

Chris Beytes

We asked experts to take off their company hats and tell us, objectively and honestly as they could, which varieties, regardless of breeder, are the very best in a wide range of categories. Here’s a brief excerpt of their answers.

Growers Talk Business

The Game Changer

Stan Vander Waal

Planning for this peak could truly be a game changer and assure you a smoother, more successful, season.

Growers Talk Production

A Blossoming Adventure: The Pro Mastercourse in Floriculture

Stephanie Saccomano

The Pro Manager Mastercourse in Floriculture, organized by Jungle Talks, wasn’t your run-of-the-mill tour; it was an intensive dive into the depths, designed for us to leave behind the familiarity of our daily grinds in pursuit of broader horizons.

GT in Brief

AmericanHort Launches New Greenhouse Technician Certification

Jennifer Zurko

AmericanHort announced the debut of the Greenhouse Technician Certification, a significant step in horticultural training tailored to meet the unique needs of the greenhouse sector.

GT in Brief

An Automated TC-propagation Machine From Down Under

Chris Beytes

Lowes TC in Tumbi Umbi, Australia, has been working on the technology for automating the TC process for a decade.

GT in Brief

Going Solar

Jennifer Zurko

Dan Foster, Senior Manager of Growing Operations for Four Star, asked if we wanted to see their new array of solar panels.

GT in Brief

Learn to Communicate Successfully With Your Latino Workforce

Jennifer Zurko

Claudio Carlos Pasian, Associate Professor, Emeritus at The Ohio State University, is teaching this new grower online training course.

GT in Brief

NGB, AAS to Merge

Chris Beytes & Jennifer Zurko

National Garden Bureau (NGB) and All-America Selections (AAS) have completed an organizational merger of the two organizations into one.

GT in Brief

On the Move

Jennifer Polanz

Atticus, LLC; Bailey; Dümmen Orange; Jiffy; Midwest Groundcovers; MPS; OHP; Syngenta

GT in Brief

What’s Behind the Changes at Dümmen Orange?

Chris Beytes

Since February, GrowerTalks has received three press releases regarding changes to licensing agreements and partnerships.

GT in Brief

Zapping Bugs With Lasers

Chris Beytes

At Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, researcher Estuardo “EJ” Hernández Olesinski and his team are seeing if lasers can be used in the greenhouse to kill insect pests.

Guest Column

The Market Structure of Vincas

Lowell Halvorson

Today’s vinca sales are driven by two primary forces: commercial plantings and southern work.

Inside Look

Do We Still Like Poinsettias?

Jennifer Zurko

When visiting a handful of growers last year in New Jersey during Week 48, this is the question I posed to them.

JZ on D.C.

Plantpeddler Honored for Supporting Ag Education

Jennifer Zurko

Congratulations to Mike, Rachel and John Gooder, and everyone at Plantpeddler of Cresco, Iowa, for being honored by the state for supporting agricultural education.

Pest Management

A Quick Review of Poinsettia Downy Mildew

Nora Catlin

Powdery mildew can spread rapidly once the conditions are favorable, and an epidemic can be devastating to a poinsettia crop. The key is finding it early and staying on top of management.

Pest Management

Biofungicides Derived From Plant Extracts

A.R. Chase

One of the easiest types of biopesticides to successfully use are those derived from plants.

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AccuWeather WS-5000

Ambient Weather

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CE-Line

Dramm Corporation

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Cultivate’24

AmericanHort

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Dianthus Mad Magenta

Dümmen Orange

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Universal Dimmer

GrowFlux Inc.

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Web-based Software

Growmentum