Commercial Floriculture

Planting

• Avoid planting during seasons with high temperature and high rainfall.
• Make sure the bed/medium is evenly moist but not wet.
• Provide an initial fertilizer dose having increased potassium and lower calcium levels.
• Dip the roots in a fungicide solution before planting (@ 0.1% Bavistin).
• Plant them in rows in cross wise pattern.
• Plant at an optimum depth (15cm deep so that new aerial roots appear above the planting surface.
• Do not prune the leaves immediately after planting, allow the plants to establish and cut down to three to four leaves.