Week 12

Happy Friday everyone! Here's what we saw this week;

Update on the Cyclamen with (suspected) fusarium... the grower treated the cyclamen in the affected house with a senator drench and a week later we can see evidence of almost completely dead roots starting to come back (picture attached). This is a reminder for us as scouts to never forget about the roots of a plant, as this is always great indicator as to what is going on.

We found aphids this week on certain crops such as Chrysanthemums, Salvia, Pansies, Hydrangea and Fuchsia plants. It is still early on in the season to find aphids and many farms are still clean at this point in the year. The places we find aphids currently have been dealing with this pest for months already and/or its a susceptible room/area of the greenhouse. Something we find interesting as scouts who travel to many different farms is how pests will find their "perfect" area in a greenhouse or house and can almost always be found in that same area. Spending many seasons at the same farm provides so much insight into what will happen the coming year, it's almost like having a playbook!