HORT 453Flower Crop Production and Management

3 credits · Horticulture · Penn State

The objective of this course is to provide students with detailed and specific knowledge, skills, and techniques used in production of commercial floricultural crops in the greenhouse and to introduce students to the systems and approaches used in managing a greenhouse. After completing this course students will understand basic greenhouse management practices and environmental systems, controls and management used to produce potted flowering plants, bedding plants, greenhouse grown cut flowers, potted perennials, transplants, plugs and liners, and houseplants. Students will know the cultural and environmental conditions required for about 60 common floriculture crops and will have practiced scheduling and producing some of these plants in the PSU teaching greenhouses. We will also cover costs of production, production management and post harvest needs for many greenhouse crops.