Greenhouse Weekend Duty                                                               Caitlin McPhee and Easton Klaudi

 October 21^st, 22^nd, 23^rd 2016

Friday October 21^st.

Arrived at the greenhouse at the proper time. Jeff the greenhouse technician proceeded to show us around and gave us the grand tour. He went over the greenhouse checklist and took us through the process of opening up the greenhouse facility for the day. After opening up the blackout curtains we then walked the entire crop, looking for any dead foliage to remove and stray water emitters hat needed to be put back into a pot. After walking the crop, Caitlin went with Jenn on an expedition through the college to remove some interior Ficus trees and Spider plants, bringing them back to the greenhouse to be transplanted in a different location.  And Easton stayed in the greenhouse to move and prepare around a hundred Anthurium plants that were to be boxed up, picked up by Nate and shipped off to Queen’s Park on Sunday afternoon. This took us until lunch. After lunch, Caitlin continued inside the college while I cleaned down the propagation chamber walls

After that, multiple cuttings had to be moved onto the heat mats at the back of the greenhouse. When completed, Easton proceeded to clean up some pots and swept the floors until Caitlin got back from the interior plants. When both of us were back, Jeff went through and showed us how to mix and make fertilizer solutions. We then made a 20-20-20 @250ppm mix for the poinsettias and also a 20-20-20 @100ppm mix for the stock basket plants

After that was done, Caitlin cut and cleaned the elephant ears in the tractor bay while Easton spot watered and checked the emitters in the Poinsettia crop. After the tasks for the day were done, we did a light cleanup of the potting room then proceed to sign out and lock up.

Saturday October 22^nd.

Arrived in the morning, was a cool rainy day. The top blackout curtain didn’t even open until 8:45. We opened the blackout curtains and went through the checklist. In the morning we walked the crop

checking for any emitters and dead foliage. Kept an eye out for any signs of pest or disease. We then did an EC and pH test of the crop (results on other page) After Checking EC

we decided to water with fertilize (20-20-20 @250ppm). We then re-walked to crop to check for any emitters that still did not work. After that was done, we proceeded to divide and pot up the spiders plants we took out into 4” pots. After lunch, we went into the college to complete the interior plants that had to be transplanted and removed.  1 Ficus to the President’s office, and 6 other to B Cafeteria. We made sure the jobsite was perfectly clean when we left.  Easton brought the aqua mate and watered the new transplants. We both then went to the library to clean the mealy bug off the Dracaena that was infested. Then proceeded to wipe the dust off and treat the large Ficus benjamina near the parking office. After that was done, we went back to the greenhouse, went through the checklist and then blacked out

We then signed out and locked up for the day.

Sunday October 23^rd.

We arrived in the morning of a beautiful day. We opened up the blackout curtains and walked the crop. We then had to have the Anthuriums watered and ready for Nates arrival.

We completed that task then went to finish the removal of the Fiscus Benjamina in the register’s office, and removed the plants underneath. After this, we washed the floors off the greenhouse and sanitized the benches. We also had a visit from Michael Pascoe and an exchange student from Thailand. Once all the main tasks were completed, we began the full clean of the greenhouse. Sweeping any dust and soil that was on the floor. Washing the floors with a bleach solution and squeegee

Walls and doors wiped down .We cleaned the drain filters and washed the pots that were used.  After we did that, we finished up on the IPM and verified the pests of the sticky card

We then went through the closing checklist and began the closing of the greenhouse. Made sure all vehicles and tools were put away. Then proceeded to blackout. We locked up and proceeded to our blog.