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.
After experiencing issues with Xanthamonas in 2017 that affected the begonia supply in the North American market, Dümmen Orange has deeply invested in new disease-reducing production methods. Recent efforts have focused on defining and implementing improvements to ensure a reliable, quality supply of begonia cuttings for the spring of 2019.
Beltech, a Netherlands-based company that specializes in vision technology, is working with a young plant grower on a system that could ultimately improve plant cutting quality.
Greenhouse Grower Editor Laura Drotleff explains why she thinks gamechanging products like Basewell have the potential to disrupt the way the industry does business, and why growers need to embrace innovation.
The potentially gamechanging new propagation system developed by Dümmen Orange offers growers a cost and labor-saving alternative to traditional production.
Basewell bare-root cuttings feature advanced root development and no growing media, which allows products to ship to growers from off-shore production locations, ready to transplant directly into the finish container.
e-Gro, an online clearing house for alerts about greenhouse disease, insect, environmental, physiological, and nutritional disorders, recently posted two new propagation-related webinars on YouTube.
There are several factors that might affect your decision to invest in transplant robots, based on initial observations and reported information about available equipment.
Four breeders — Ball Horticultural Co., Dümmen Orange, Proven Winners, and Syngenta Flowers — will participate in the initial pilot, which will include greenhouse growing operations in six Latin American countries.
With new avenues for buying young plants for vegetative production, growers should have an easier time finding availability and receiving shipments of unrooted cuttings for the coming seasons.
