2010 Spring Production Guide
December 2, 2009 
As the year winds down and you’re shipping out the last of your poinsettias and holiday crops, we’re helping you get a jump on spring by publishing this handy 2010 Spring Production Guide for premium annuals.
Demand for crop-specific growing information is greater than ever. Profit margins have been squeezed to the point where there is no margin for error or crop failures. Growers are producing more conservatively and shrinking their shrink, discarding less. The dumpster is not a paying customer.
The solution is growing with precision to increase quality and consistency–repeatable results with your crops each turn. For this guide, we worked with technical experts from some of the world’s leading flower breeders, including Suntory, Danziger and Goldsmith Seeds/Syngenta Flowers. They have a global view of what works and doesn’t work and where the troubles lie with each crop.
Most of the varieties are from cuttings but we have included two key seed crops–gerberas and vincas. On the cuttings side, calibrachoa is a crop growers continue to struggle with, so production guidance is vital. One especially hot tropical is mandevilla. And there are more ipomoeas (sweet potato vines) to choose from than ever before. New breeding has made their vigor more manageable.
In fact, the genetics have advanced so much in all these crops in the last five years. If it has been a while since you have tried a certain genus, now is the time to consider trying it again. Many of the production riddles are being solved.
Our goal is to keep you current with the latest varieties and production strategies. For many of you, this guide will serve as a refresher. Compare your own growing methods against the experts’ recommendations, but don’t make significant changes without getting more direct advice from an expert you trust in person.
We could have expanded this guide to as many as 50 crops from seed and cuttings, but then it would have been a book. We decided to zero in on 10 this first year. Consider these your recipes for success. Best wishes for a spectacular spring and a strong 2010.
Tips For Producing Calibrachoa
Tips For Producing Fuchsias
Tips For Producing Gerberas
Tips For Producing Ipomoeas
Tips For Producing Mandevillas
Tips For Producing Petunias
Tips For Producing Scaevolas
Tips For Producing Torenias
Tips For Producing Verbenas
Tips For Producing Vincas
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