American Floral Endowment’s next Grow Pro webinar covers best practices when producing seedling plugs, transplants, and other young plants.

Rosa Raudales and Mayra Toro-Herrera of UCONN test the effectiveness of sugar translocators on the root development of coleus cuttings.

This year’s conference takes place Sept. 23-25 in Orlando, FL, and includes educational presentations, a trade show, and a tour of local greenhouse operations.

A distribution partnership has formed between Ball Seed and TTA to launch the latter’s new CuttingEdge automated cutting-sticking machine.

Dipping unrooted vegetative cuttings in biopesticides has been shown to be effective at reducing whitefly, thrips, and spider mite populations.

Growers must maintain a favorable propagation environment and implement cultural practices to promote root initiation and subsequent root growth and development.

Selecting new varieties from seed requires a lot of space, time, and labor, so buying rooted cuttings with known characteristics is preferred.

Training and environmental conditions can each affect the propagation of unrooted cuttings.

American Floral Endowment’s first Grow Pro webinar of 2022 will focus on successful handling and propagation of unrooted cuttings.

Delayed offshore products and increased demand for plants and other hard good products mean growers and end-consumers will need to get creative this year to source the products they need.

Several leading growers are propagating indoors using vertical shelves and LED fixtures without sunlight. Is this high-tech option for you?

The move is designed to help the company remain nimble in its production strategy and ramp up availability to meet seasonal needs.

AmericanHort’s Craig Regelbrugge outlines how this USDA program will expedite the unrooted cuttings supply chain, while improving the quality of plant material.