• The State of Michigan Agriculture: 2025

    Published on April 9, 2025
    This analysis outlines the state of Michigan agriculture in 2025.

  • Avoiding Caladium Conundrums

    Published on October 1, 2022
    The first article of a two-part series discusses how to grow a better caladium crop with air, substrate and irrigation water temperature management.

  • Avoiding Caladium Conundrums, Part 2

    Published on September 1, 2022
    How air, substrate and irrigation water temperature management affects the emergence and quality of some cultivars.

  • Emerging Specialty Cut Flowers

    Published on July 10, 2022
    Determining if young and/or finish photoperiod influence flower induction in marigold and witchgrass.

  • How to produce poor-quality floriculture crops

    Published on September 11, 2020
    Sometimes growers unknowingly follow practices that can contribute to, or directly cause, a reduction in crop quality. While there can be some tradeoffs between crop quality and crop timing and/or input costs, these practices should be avoided.

  • Using Data Loggers in the Greenhouse

    Published on April 6, 2018
    Most growers do not have extensive environmental control systems that keep historical records of the greenhouse conditions. In these cases, you will find that using a data logger will allow you to easily see past and present environmental data.

  • Causes of flower bud abortion

    Published on March 14, 2018
    There are many potential causes to flower bud abortion, including pests, environmental factors, and cultural factors.

  • Keeping in Front of the Curve: pH and EC Monitoring

    Published on January 12, 2018
    In-house monitoring of the growing substrate pH and EC will help to avoid nutrient disorders and shrinkage. Setting up a monitoring system is easy and the steps are highlighted in this article.

  • Increasing height of chrysanthemum with PGR drenches

    Published on July 10, 2017
    Results are presented for an experiment in which we compared the efficacy of spray versus drench applications of a plant growth regulator (PGR) at increasing plant height of potted chrysanthemum plants.

  • Temperature on chyrsanthemum

    Published on July 17, 2013
    Once flower buds are visible, adjusting the growing temperature has little or no impact on time to flower unless plants are held at low temperatures (50° F or less).