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Mark your calendar:
Floriculture Field Day and
Kathy Pufahl Container Contest
July 22, Ithaca, N.Y.
Featured speaker: Dr. Rick Schoellhorn, Director of New Products, Proven Winners
field day participants view annual flower plantings
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New:
•Greenhouse energy management
•Nutrient and fertilizer management


Greenhouse IPM Tour in Canada

The NYS IPM Program in collaboration with NYS Flower Industries and the NY Farm Viability Institute held a tour in August where participants visited growers in Canada that are using biological control in their operations. This was a unique opportunity to learn from the experts and 11 participants visited 7 grower operations. Currently about 50% of Canada's ornamental greenhouses use some type of biocontrol. No two systems are the same, and each grower adapts biological contol methods to meet their own needs. The tour group also stopped at a New York state retail greenhouse on the way home to see how one of our local growers is using biological control methods to control pests in a greenhouse situation that is open to the public.

Growers examine eggplant leaf used to "trap" whitefly in a poinsettia crop greenhouse.

Floriculture Field Day: Thanks!

Thanks to all of the folks that attended this year's Floriculture Field Day on July 24th - we heard lots of great talks in the morning and saw some beautiful plants out at the Bluegrass Lane Research facility in the afternoon. There were informative tours and a lovely Container Competition.
View container contest entries.
Read Cornell Chronicle article.

Cornell Greenhouse Business Summary Program

This program helps greenhouse operators evaluate their business performance compared with industry standards, and use the information to make management decisions and improve profits.

Supported by a grant from the New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI), this program is free to New York greenhouse growers in 2006 and 2007. More info.

Coleus Downy Mildew is a new disease in Greenhouses

Coleus downy mildew pictures are now in our Pests and Diseases Photo Gallery.

Read the Coleus Downy Mildew handout by Margery Daughtrey for more information about this disease.

Q Biotype in Silverleaf Whiteflies is a new pest in Crops

Read more about this new pest:
Q Biotype Handout

This new whitefly pest is a strain of the silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia tabaci. It has been confirmed in at least six states as of October 2005. This new strain, called the Q biotype, was first identified in Arizona at the end of 2004.

Refer to the handout by John Sanderson and Dan Gilrein for more information about this potential new pest.
  

 

Update: Recent diseases and disorders in N.Y. greenhouses

Floriculture events

The Greenhouse Team
Extension staff and faculty who can help

Take the 2008 New York State Greenhouse Industry Survey

Flower Bulb
Research Program

Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center

Conferences, trade publications and technical information sources

Ornamental Crops IPM E-newsletter. Provides regular updates to commercial horticulture educators in the Cornell Cooperative Extension system and producers of ornamental crops in New York

Dept. of Horticulture Greenhouse Cam

View current greenhouse crops...

Greenhouse Raspberry Production Guide
Put under- used labor and space to work. 38-page online resource.		 Greenhouse raspberry production guide
Greenhouses for Home- owners and Gardeners
214-page book covers every aspect of designing and constructing a home greenhouse.		 Greenhouses for Homeowners and Gardeners - click for more info
Annual and perennial flower research at Bluegrass Lane.
Pictures, evalutions, more.		 Flower research at Bluegrass Lane.
                                                                                                               
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