AmericanHort’s Craig Regelbrugge outlines how this USDA program will expedite the unrooted cuttings supply chain, while improving the quality of plant material.
Researchers at Colorado State University has spent the last three years studying production methods for increasing efficiency and productivity with three herbaceous perennials.
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.
The new AutoStix system is designed to provide better consistency and uniformity with shipped cuttings, easier and more reliable counting, automatic transplanting, and optional buffering in the peak season.
Beginning in spring 2017, Darwin Colombia will offer unrooted cuttings of more than 40 varieties of Walters Gardens’ new genetics, including many popular genera such as Agastache, Monarda, Nepeta, and Phlox.
The world’s top vegetative producers discuss how they continue to evolve to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities to help growers and the varieties supply chain.
