Previous monitoring of specific crops has helped considerably in understanding how and when to feed your plants. The poinsettia scheme has been very successful in monitoring nutrient levels and building up a database of results. While it was useful to find normal nutrient levels perhaps what was most interesting was comparing your results against others.
We had two speakers at the BOA 2021 Conference who both emphasised how important it was to monitor primrose nutrition through the winter, to ensure the crop had sufficient nutrient levels to support spring growth and flowering at a time when they are not actively growing.
With this in mind, the BOA in partnership with Omex has launched a Primula monitoring scheme.
Primrose monitoring 2022 season
Previous monitoring of specific crops has helped considerably in understanding how and when to feed your plants. The poinsettia scheme has been very successful in monitoring nutrient levels and building up a database of results. While it was useful to find normal nutrient levels perhaps what was most interesting was comparing your results against others.We…
Primrose monitoring example
Primrose 10.5cm potted wk 38 2021 We used Candy Vanilla from Rudy Raes, we knew it was a hungry variety Peat free compost (coir & wood fibre) compared to standard peat & wood fibre (January SAP results) Grown cool vent setpoint 10C Heating 1C Grown in shuttles for 6-8 weeks then spaced out onto bench…
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Previous monitoring of specific crops has helped considerably in understanding how and when to feed your plants. The poinsettia scheme has been very successful in monitoring nutrient levels and building up a database of results. While it was useful to find normal nutrient levels perhaps what was most interesting was comparing your results against others.We…