Streamlining New Guinea Impatiens   Greenhouse Product News October 2005   By Jim Faust, Kelly Lewis and Renee Keydoszius
In a perfect world, New Guinea impatiens would all flower at the same time, but that doesn’t happen. This Clemson University research will help you determine when your New Guinea impatiens will flower.
PDF Version

FloraStar Elite Performer   Greenhouse Product News August 2005   By Jim Barrett and David Hartley
PDF Version

Factors Affecting PGR Liner Dips   Greenhouse Product News July 2005   Rebecca Schnelle, Christopher Cerveny and Jim Barrett
Liner dips are a useful new technique that make the production of mixed containers and vigorous crops in baskets and other containers much easier and that allow for more efficient use of PGR chemicals.
PDF Version

Elite Performer: A greenhouse production trial for bacopa, petunia, verbena and scaevola.   Greenhouse Product News July 2004   By Jim Barrett and Erika Berghauer
The Elite Performers award level is reserved for only those varieties that are the easiest to grow, have excellent marketability and perform well in different situations and container sizes.
PDF Version

Controlling 4-inch Ivies   Greenhouse Product News July 2004   By Jim Barrett
Multiple PGR regimes can produce compact, salable 4-inch ivy geraniums.
PDF Version

Better Calibrachoas with Growth Control   Greenhouse Product News July 2003   Jim Barrett
The need to produce more attractive plants led us to doing growth regulator work for our May field days. For this article, I have chosen the strategy of showing more pictures of the plants and letting them speak for themselves, as in "a picture is worth a thousand words."
PDF Version

FloraStar Elite Awards: A Greenhouse Performance Trial   Greenhouse Product News July 2003   Jim Barrett, Erika Berghauer and Phillip Hamilton
FloraStar, in cooperation with the University of Florida, has selected the winners of the first FloraStar Elite Performer trials that are designed to evaluate how well a variety performs for the grower. This year's trial included calibrachoa and double impatiens.
PDF Version

Control of Pansy Downy Mildew 2002   Greenhouse Product News December 2002   Ann Chase
During the fall-winter of 2002, we experienced a severe outbreak of pansy downy mildew across the United States. It was identified by Dr. G.W. Simone as Peronospora violae, the most common downy mildew pathogen on pansies. The opportunity to concentrate on this downy mildew has not been frequent in our facility so we spent much of our efforts on this disease. Several new fungicides were available for evaluation, and they were each tested over the course of the season. We also expanded the work to include eradication as well as prevention with currently available and experimental fungicides.
PDF Version