Practicum – Session 3

Lessons:

• Reporting on Seed Experiment
• Greenhouse Management and Hygiene (Part 1)—Water Seedlings: Monitoring equipment
• Propagation from Cuttings

Objectives:

• Students will appreciate the importance of meeting the planting conditions of HOWL and learn about epigeal and hypogeal germination.
• Students will learn about various seedling problems and the conditions that may cause them.  They will learn how to avoid seedling problems by proper watering, checking equipment and temperatures in the greenhouses, and cleaning planting containers.
• Students will learn to utilize cuttings to start new plants.

Homework Assignment to be read/viewed before coming to Practicum:

• Read this Document – Watering Basics
• Read this Document – How to Improve Greenhouse Hygiene (2 Articles)
• Read this Document – 3 Easy Hardwood Cutting Methods
• Read this Document – Common Plants Grown from Cuttings
• Read this Document – Save Money and Grow More Plants with Tip Cuttings
• Read this Weblink – Peat Alternatives (There are links within this article that contain more information and are beneficial, but are optional.)
• Watch the video within this link – “Seed Germination Types”
• Watch the two videos below – “Time Lapse of a Pea Shoot Root Growth” and “Me Growing a Belly Buster Lima Bean”

Additional Resources:

• Read this Document – “Vegetative Propagation/Understanding Plant Growth and Development”
• Read this Document – Other Cutting Types
• Read this Document – Cuttings (excerpt from The Plant Propagator’s Bible by Miranda-Smith)