Learn to Grow, Care for and Sell Plants
The nursery production system traditionally consists of four stages:
1. Propagation
2. Transplanting
3. Growing on
4. Marketing the fully-grown plant
Understand the scope and nature of nursery work and learn the skills for day to day work in a production nursery.
There are 11 lessons in this course
- Introduction to the Nursery Industry: production systems, transport regulations, PVR
- Plant Identification and Taxonomy: systematic botany, plant families, leaf and flower parts
- Nursery Structures and Buildings: greenhouse management, structures for nurseries
- Potting Mixes: U.C. soil mixes, understanding soils, growing media
- Seed Propagation: quality, sources, storage, germination treatments
- Cutting Propagation: stock plants, hormones
- Other Propagation Techniques: tissue culture, division, separation, layering, grafting
- Plant Nutrition in the Nursery: nutrition management,
- Pests and Diseases Control: hygeine
- Other Nursery Tasks: nursery irrigation, modifying plant growth
- Marketing and Sales: sales methods