Weekend Duty                                                                    Jensen M.                     October 15, 2017                                                                Tawny R.

Friday October 13

  After a long day of CLT examinations we arrived at the greenhouse at around 2pm to start an afternoon's worth of work. We met Jeff in the greenhouse and he explained all the weekend duty protocols and his expectations of the weekend. Tawny and I than met with Sue and went over the POS system and everything that goes along with the sales production at the greenhouse. She than took us around the greenhouse and showed us what was expected of us over the next couple of days. Jeff then showed me how to calculate the fertilizer amount that goes into the all-purpose fertilizer tank. I than refilled the tank while Tawny was learning how to use the ECE and pH reader. Without hesitation we then started into transplanting succulents in cute little ceramic bowl arrangements.

By the time we got those finished it was time to close up the POS system and count up our float for the next day. We cleaned up the mess we had made and finished our day off by closing the shade curtains.

Saturday October 14

We arrive at 7:50am to start our second day of work. When we first got settled in we opened the blackout curtains and walked the crop to make sure all of the poinsettias were happy 

After all that was complete we noticed the power was not working for anything in the potting room. Before we got a hold of Jeff to fix the problem the power was out for 3 hours. So we just started transplanting cuttings from propagation chamber into 4” pots and placed them on the heating mats. Just before lunch i removed a dead squirrel in the tractor bay. After lunch we removed hanging baskets from the yellow drip line as Sue requested. We than took the rest of the hanging baskets and cut back all stock baskets nice and neat.

Throughout the afternoon we also accomplished 96 coleus ‘GoldSpot’ cuttings and placed them on the heat mat as well.

We called Rebecca and Nicole on the radio to come dispose of all the compost we created throughout the day. We then closed the blackout curtains and headed home for the night.

Sunday October 15

On Sunday we opened the greenhouse and had the Blackout curtains opened by quarter after eight. We spent an hour filling out our log books and setting the camera up for the day. We watered the ornamental grass at the east end of the greenhouse. We than walked the crop and decided the poinsettias could use a little water so we watered through drip lines for 3 minutes. For the remainder of the morning we put some plastic pots away and filled out the ECE and pH readings for the poinsettias. After lunch we thoroughly cleaned the greenhouse (figure4) and helped Kathy bring in the plant donations. We closed the curtains for the last time and we left the greenhouse.