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Dr. Nathan Jahnke was at the Commercial Growers of Wisconsin Fall Conference last week to speak about factors of plant growth!🌱 We love connecting with other educators and industry pros!

Here's a new Ball Tech On Demand video featuring Dr. Will Healy sharing protocols and best practices for finishing seed-raised coleus. There's a ton of great info in here covering everything from media and container selection to light, temperature, irrigation and nutrition. Seed coleus aren't notoriously challenging but there are plenty of tricks for optimizing production. This is a great video to share with your entire team: https://lnkd.in/gWp_3SFW #greenhouse #horticulture #growing #coleus #seed #technicalservices #balltechteam #greenhousetechteam #techondemand #ballseed

It’s time to book your First-Year Flowering Perennials! Summerlong Agastache is a special variety because it really does bloom all summer long! The Summerlong series is also easy to use in mixed deco pots- adding a higher price point to your mixes!

Sunfinity Double Yellow Sunflower by Syngenta Flowers was putting on a show in our 3rd Party Beds this summer! This is a unique, naturally free-branching, and reblooming vegetative sunflower variety available through Ball Seed, and it truly was reblooming- these photos were taken in early September!

We’re are at the GFPS in Atlanta today and tomorrow! Come see us at Booth B3126 and Kitchen Minis (PanAmerican Seed) at Booth B3128. Can’t wait to talk with all of you soon! https://lnkd.in/d4Xci8qB

Our team puts so much thought and effort into creating the displays in The Gardens at Ball! Although The Gardens are a vision to wander through, they are purposefully designed to trial products so our customers can see exactly how the varieties will perform when using them!

A couple years ago, the Ball Seed Tech On Demand team created a range of videos intended to help greenhouse owners and managers provide training for production teams. This “In the Break Room” series of short educational sessions has evolved into a playlist of more than 30 videos. You can find them all here: https://lnkd.in/gpCtfYjf Today, we want to highlight the video covering Fertilizer Choice—Nutrition for All Stages. In this video, Dr. Todd Cavins discussed a topic every grower needs to consider before spring crops arrive and get planted—nutrition. From water quality to pH and EC in media to plant development stages and desired growth, fertilizer choice is paramount. Todd took us through a fast-paced look at all things plant nutrition helping you set the stage for healthy crops. https://lnkd.in/gnAiFyt5 #greenhouse #horticulture #nutrition #fertilizer #nutrients #fertility #growing #crops #ballseed #techondemand #balltechteam #balltechtips #greenhousetechteam

Sunset Orange Garden Mum is a top-selling, best-performing variety! Easy to grow and size up, with good stem length and excellent flexibility, this prolific, medium-sized Mum has two-tone blooms and is great for all pot sizes and flowering seasons.

If you're planting tulip bulbs in the field this fall and concerned about soil pH, Ball Seed cut flower specialist Dave Dowling has some advice and a good resource: He says you want to aim for a pH of 6 to 7 for tulips and if soil tests show pH is currently high, calcium sulfate or potassium sulfate are what you can use to lower it. Dave shared this University of Minnesota info on lowering pH for fruits or vegetables and the process would be basically the same for tulips or other cut flowers. rates to use for various options are in the article: https://lnkd.in/gNG43Vae #greenhouse #flowerfarming #agriculture #tulips #horticulture #pH #lowerpH #farming #ballseed #greenhousetechteam #balltechteam #techondemand

Did you see our pond box planters in The Gardens this summer? These were a beautiful new addition to the pond next to our pavilion- with three repeating designs with contrasting pastel colors!