Matthew Blanchard

In recent years, advances in pansy breeding have brought a new class of pansies with trailing growth habits […]

Growers are always looking for opportunities to improve production efficiency and reduce costs. One option is to use […]

Daily light integral (DLI) refers to the cumulative amount of photosynthetic light that is received in one day. […]

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Efficient production of bedding plants requires information on how temperature, photoperiod, and daily light integral (DLI) influence crop […]

Scheduling annual bedding plants in flower for specific market dates is of increasing importance to greenhouse growers. Plants […]

Producing spring bedding plants in an energy-efficient manner requires information on how crops respond to average daily temperature […]

Scheduling bedding plants in flower for exact market dates is challenging considering the diversity of crops produced. Rising […]

Most bedding plants are produced in heated greenhouses from January through May, when high energy inputs can be […]

Escalating fuel costs have made it important for greenhouse growers to improve production efficiency and schedule crops more […]

Scheduling annual bedding plants in flower for specific market dates is of increasing importance to many greenhouse growers. […]

Energy-efficient greenhouse production requires information on how crops respond to average daily temperature and daily light integral (DLI) […]

In the first article of this scheduling annuals series, we introduced the concepts of temperature and daily light […]

Examples of software interface panels of Virtual Grower. This program can be downloaded free at VirtualGrower.net and can […]

Bedding and garden plants are the largest category of floriculture crops in the United States with a wholesale […]

Controlling plant height is a key factor in producing a quality crop and maximizing the number of plants […]

Figure 1. Celosia (Celosia plumosa ‘Fresh Look Red’) was sprayed with either Dazide (daminozide, Fine Americas), B-Nine (daminozide, […]

Temperature and light are the two environmental factors that primarily influence production time and quality of both young and […]