Greenhouse Weekend Blog
Johnny and Colin - March 13-15, 2015

Day 1
Seeding:
We seeded roughly 30-40 Colutea arborecens. Seeded 14 trays of 288 (roughly) marigolds. 14x288= sowed roughly 4032 marigold seeds with the Blackmore seeding machine.
Small Crop:
We fed the 4” potted plants and the gallon potted plants. The rule of thumb was 1 teaspoon for the 4” pots and 1 tablespoon for the 1 gallon pots. 

Hydrangea Care:
Mixed fertilizer: Hydrangeas take 21-7-7
So we had to calculate how many grams of 21-7-7 fertilizer we needed.
200ppmx100/210=20,000/210=95x10= 950 grams of fertilizer needed.
Then with this mix we watered to fertilizer.
General Greenhouse Maintenance:
We had to clean the sink filter because water was not flowing through the pipes well and was pouring out the over flow opening.
We cleaned the floors daily, to provide a clean, pest free growing environment.
We organized the tractor bay area a little bit, fixing the stacks of pots and trays.
We washed used pots and put them away to be re-used in the future.

Day 2
The Hydrangeas:
We already fed the Hydrangeas on Friday so we just watered them today and did some culturing by removing some of the dead foliage and also checked for pests. (There were none)
The Cannas: 

We also transplanted 24 canna tubers. The cultivar is ‘President’. There are 3 types of cannas on that one bench out there right now but fear not, they are all labeled.
We also transplanted 15 elephant ear bulbs that we pulled out of the tractor bay.
Inside Fanshawe:
We took the dosatron out to T and B building to water some of the plants in the front of the school to help out Mike M.



Day 3

Watering:
Watered the hydrangeas and made sure they did not dry out.
Johnny watered the seedlings lightly a couple of times today because those little cells dry out fast.
I also watered the Cannas and the 4” potted plants (sweet potato vine etc...).
We also finished watering the last of the plants in B building because we ran out of water on Saturday for the dosatron.

Transplanting:
Today we made really beautiful baskets transplanting 5-6 small ornamental plants from the 4” pots and one main center piece plant in the middle of them. We made up 10 of those.
We also transplanted a few extra cannas that we in the bulb crate. 

Greenhouse Observations:
I noticed that the first geranium bulbs are coming out, you can see a little bit of red in one of them, so that good news.
Bad news is I saw some leaf burn/curl on some of the hydrangeas, not too sure what that is, doesn’t appear to be insects, maybe its normal?