Weekend Practical Blog

Jessica Rowland & Dylan McLeod

 

Jan. 10, 14 - Jan. 12, 14

Well, school’s finally back in and the greenhouse practical’s have begun! The second year Horticulture technicians came back early to set up our Congress display in Toronto, which for this weekend left Dylan and JRow the duty of trying to organize the greenhouse once again. Some of the duties that were left included organizing and placing the Congress plants on drip lines, removing the mulch left inside the pots, and leaving the greenhouse spotless. 

On Friday January 10, 2014 Fanshawe College got its first hydrangea crop in.  For our first step with the hydrangeas,’ we got the 4 inch pots out of their boxes and into the greenhouse with one drip line in each of the pots. The plan for the crop is to be transplanted into larger pots such as a 6 inch or 1 gallon but first our fearless leader Mr. Pascoe wants to inspect the crop to determine the best course of action. 

  

On Saturday January 11, 2014 Dylan and JRow potted up spider plants that were in 4 pack cells to 4 inch pots.  Once we were done potting up the spider plants and reorganizing the propagated cacti, we cleaned up the Alocasia's. After lunch we took to the task of starting our cleanup of the greenhouse floor and potting room. After a little elbow grease, our hard work payed off with the greenhouse in mint condition for the beginning of 2014!

 

 

On Sunday January 12, 2014 we started to take down the shade curtains since our poinsettias are finished for this year. After this Dylan and JRow split up to conquer as many of our tasks as possible. While JRow was seeing to some Interiorscape issues such as culture and watering, Dylan was doing some finishing clean up touches. Later on in the day the Dracaena that we took to Congress needed to be stabilized due to all the moving, so Dylan got to play Tarzan while JRow packed soil.  Overall, we had a great weekend!