BASF Grower Meeting

FYI-  BASF will be having an informational meeting on their portfolio of plant protection products that might be of interest to ornamental growers.  Some of the products they will be highlighting are Orkestra™ Intrinsic® brand fungicide, Pageant® Intrinsic brand fungicide, and Sultan® miticide. They will also have Paul Pilon with Perennial Solutions Consulting Horticultural Consultant on the topic “Production Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them” and Dr. Kathie Kalmowitz, a BASF Technical Specialist speaking about “Introduction of a New Innovative Fungicide for Production” and “IPM Solutions for Weed Control.”

If you are interested, the meeting will be held on September 28, 2016 from

10:00am - 1:40pm which will include a working lunch. The event site will be University of Florida / IFAS Mid-Florida Research and Education Center (across from Lake Apopka, next to Magnolia Park) located at 2725 South Binion Road, Apopka, FL 32703.  

One CEU will be available!

To ensure your reservation, please RSVP to peggy.clanton@basf.com by August 23, 2016.

Preemrgent Herbicide Field Trial on Recycled Potting Soil

I have been working on a field trial with preemergent herbicides at a grower's field and thought I would share the results from what we have seen.  This is reused recycled soil that has had various preemergent herbicides applied as soon as pots were filled. We did two plots for each herbicide and we only did one plot of non-treated control.  We took pictures at two and four weeks after treatment (WAT).  This soil suffers from an abundance of nutsedge which is not normally an issue in potting soils due to its propagation from tubers and not from seeds.  This happens to be prevalent due to the process of reusing the old soil.