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Preventing Issues in Your Spring Crops: Sanitation, Dips and Bio Tips.
With the holiday season almost upon us, it’s time to turn our attention to Spring bedding crops. Although here for a brief window, the diversity of these crops means you’re bound to encounter some sort...
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Can We Reduce Pest Pressure in Floriculture by Adjusting Plant Nutrition?
Producing high-quality ornamentals while decreasing pesticide use requires finding creative ways to reduce pests across your whole production system. Are you interested in learning more about the role...
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NEW: Free Online IPM Training for Greenhouse Staff
Need a refresher on specific pests of floriculture, and what to do about them? Want to see how Canada – a world leader in biological control in ornamental crops – does things? Then the following IPM...
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Can We Improve Pesticide Application in Greenhouse Ornamentals?
As anyone battelling whitefly on poinsettia this season can attest to, good pesticide coverage in ornamental crops can be challenging. Hydraulic sprayers are the industry standard, but does that mean...
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Where Do Most of Your Thrips Come From? The Answer May Surprise You.
Are your thrips numbers on the rise? (This post was co-written by S. Jandricic and A. Summerfield.) Sometimes your thrips biocontrol program is working great. Other times, it seems to get completely...
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Thrips parvispinus (“Pepper Thrips”): The Importance of Inspecting Plants and...
I’ve written about the tropical pest Thrips parvispinus, now being called “pepper thrips”, infesting certain tropical ornamentals in Canada before. But it appears this pest has become widespread in...
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Is Lowering Fertilizer Right For You?
This guest post was written by Jessie deHaan, Research Technician at Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (Vineland). Four chrysanthemum varieties growing side by side at 75ppm (left side of...
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Garden Mums 2024 – Tips, Tricks, and Production Bits
This post was contributed to by Abigail Wiesner, Drs. Sarah Jandricic, and Chevonne Dayboll. As we feel temperatures rising, summer is on its way – and so are garden mums! This post has updated...
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Potted Chrysanthemums 2024: Dips, Thrips and Threats
Every year at this time, growers start to think about strategies to minimizing western flower thrips on their chrysanthemum crops. This year, Thrips parvispinus is causing extra concern, given that...
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How-To Video of the Week: Mass Trapping for Thrips and Other Pests
Are your thrips numbers on the rise? Thrips often get out of control in summer, when fall crop production is ramping up. But why is this? Although some thrips enter your greenhouse via plant material...
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