Chris Potten Nick Tolhurst Weekend Duty

The first thing we did when arriving at 8 was to open the curtains. We checked the greenhouse for damage and did a walkabout. Jeff gave us the tasks that we were supposed to complete over the weekend period. He showed us around the greenhouse and explained the system and the operations the protocols and responsibilities. We took the checklist and went through it doing all the checks. We looked at the Priva system but it had been down and the computer was not working well. We walked the crop and found that there was several poinsettias that were under watered. There were 2 plants with oil on them from the motor that opens the greenhouses roof. We washed off the leaves. The perennials were spot watered. We helped Travis take some cuttings and root them, Golden Pathos. We cleaned the table and the floor of the greenhouse. We started to do a repair to the line because it had been punctured, but were unsuccessful at completely stopping the leak. We looked for tools to fix the leak but we did not have access as everything was locked up.

We arrived at the greenhouse for 7:15 am to open the curtains and do the regular routine. We then headed to VMP to go to the tree planting. We finished at 1 and came back to the greenhouse to turn on the water for the poinsettias but the repair from the other day was not holding. We hand watered the Poinsettias, but were later told about the turn off valves. 

Today we packaged up the Antherium plants and got them ready for pickup at 3 today. Each plant was looked over to check for any spent blooms, and spent ones were pruned. Each pot was covered with red foil and each plant was placed into a plastic sleeve. They were tagged with a Fanshawe College tag with a plastic clip. 8 plants went into each box for 16 in total, 131 plants. We pulled some of the plants from the planters a D building leaving the remaining elephant ears and putting in Chrysanthemums in each planter. The refuse was removed by the RTV and brought to the compost pile. At the main entrance by the flag pole, some plants were removed and replaced. We checked on the Poinsettias and all were still well watered from the day before. The stock plants were spot watered and the Poinsettia standards were watered.