Currently work at a small ornamental nursery as a grower. I’m wondering if anybody who has worked in the horticulture industry can speak on getting promotions. Eventually I would like to be promoted to head grower than eventually production manager. This may be a vague question that’s depends on the company and work ethic , but in your experience do horticultural companies tend to promote from within the company?

Currently I work at a small ornamental nursery and greenhouse as a greenhouse grower, I also have a A.A.S degree in horticulture. I love my job but was wondering if I were to pursue the cannabis industry and become a cannabis cultivator instead would that be a better career path in horticulture. I’m thinking that maybe there’s more room for advancement in the cannabis industry because it usually has larger companies and more room for career growth. What’s the pros and cons of staying in ornamental plant industry vs making the switch to cannabis industry?

I just transported my tree to a bigger port with soil and organic compost i made myself. However, the tree root is now exposed and i have not bought more soil to cover the roots.

Will the exposed root know how to creep down into the soil with a bigger pot now?

Hope to have some advice. Thanks

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Well, I have been interested in starting my very own personal farm for a long time and I guess the lockdown has kind of pushed to certainty. So I needed help when it came to deciding on one of this idea I came across, Container farms. So there are a lot of options out there but I want to make a DIY container farm. If someone could guide me on the steps or the aspects I need to keep a close eye on for research and design purposes, it would be a great help.

Hello all, I was looking at wheat and wheatgrass recently and wondered, is one is not going to eat the wheat grain but plant it make wheatgrass, how much work does one have to do? Is it necessary to do all the threshing where the husk of the seed is removed or can it just be planted husk and all. Does husk covered seed not grow as well?

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Looking for on-line or local (DFW area) place to order some flats or bareroot, w'ever . It's a particularly short variety of L. Spicata .

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Love gardening, but winter months where I live are a drag (cold AF). Just goofing around with a Corleus variety that's been looking pretty in the windowsill, I recently took some cuttings from her stems (ofc). But after pruning leaves to lengthen each cutting, there were a couple leaves left that were really pretty. I felt bad they'd be thrown in the trash or compost bin. So instead of tossing them, I cut each leaf's end at 45deg (ofc), just a spritz of cinammon on cut... I placed them facing each other in a typ. potting soil (added extra perlite). Much to my surprise they have grafted together to form a new Shoot! The new 'node to be' is very tiny at the moment, but if anyone wants, I'll take a pic when it's grown out more. I was stoked & thought I'd share :) Happy holidays!

Hello,

I have an amaryllis plant ready for dormacy, but it suffers from a mild case of red blotch on the bulb and on the roots. I was wondering if i should dry it out and store it planted in a pot with soil, or should i cut off the roots abd store in a paper bag? I saw both methods used, but i dont know which is better considering its health concerns. What do you recommend, reddit? :#

Ever since I visited Bali Indonesia, Salak (Snake Fruit) has been my favorite fruit. I've always been interested in trying my hand at growing exotic fruits, especially this one. I don't live in quite a tropical region; I'm located in the South East United States. Is this palm even possible to grow here? Could it be possible with Hydroponics or some kind of artificial environment? If so, can anyone help me get started? I'm a complete beginner, but am eager to learn.

Hi all. I have had a huge dream for the longest time to own my own seed company, and produce amaaazzziinng high quality multiple species of many edible plants and thus organic seeds to gift the world. For this I need to own land, somewhere probably near (think oregon or washington or possibly North Carolina / Tenessee areas.) in North America, I've been saving up cash for the longest time, but my question is this: What is ESSENTIAL for fertile soil for growing such a wide variety species of edible crops. (Think multi regional / cultural - tropicals, desert species, rainforest nut trees, winter berries - all of it.) I know the areas I want to go are heavily forested, if I clear spaces of forest with a construction crew for light, will the soil be fertile enough to grow massive fruit, nut trees, and all manner of shrubs, herbs, and table vegetables? If not, what can I do about that? I guess what I'm asking is, before I make the hugest mistake of my life and buy the WRONG land and then have an "oh shit" moment 1 year later when I find out nothing hardly grows there because Z, Y, or Z ... I'm hoping you can help me with what is best for selecting the most important piece of land in my life correctly. THANK YOU!

This is sweet corn by the way

Please suggest 3-4 different species of flowering plants that can be used in a research experiment involving bumble bees and honey bees.

Guidelines (in order of priority)

1. Has flowers that are attractive to both honey bees and bumble bees
2. Blooms in late summer
3. Found in or near Vermont, USA
4. Can either be grown from seed in a greenhouse or purchased before it blooms (to ensure the flowers are not visited by other pollinators)
5. Are agriculturally important (such as a nitrogen fixing cover crop) or are commonly recommended as a hedgerow plant for pollinators

Ideally, 2 of the 4 species should be simple (vs. complex). This is to increase the likelihood bees will share nectaries when foraging.

Background: I am a graduate student studying the transmission of bee diseases through the use of shared floral resources and am planning to conduct an experiment this summer. In the experiment, I will first allow infected bees to forage on the plants. Then I will move the plants and allow only healthy bees to forage on the plants. Finally, I will test the healthy bees to see if they become infected by foraging on the shared flowers.

Thanks in advance!