If you want to grow carnations and learn to harvest them, then this course is made for you! This online growing carnations course will teach you that and more. Such as the way to plant, water and feed them, they way to propagate them, the pests and diseases involved and how to control them, the way to manage greenhouse and more.
Carnations Distance Learning Course
“Study the different methods of growing and harvesting carnations”
A serious course equally valuable to the home enthusiast or the commercial cut flower grower. You learn about growing quality carnations (planting, watering, pest & disease control, fertilizing), different ways of growing them (e.g. as row crops in soil, in hydroponics, in a greenhouse); and harvesting, post-harvest treatments, and quality control.
Course Outline
There are 8 Lessons in this course:
1. Introduction
Review of the system of plant identification
Physiology
Information sources
2. Culture
Planting
staking
mulching
watering
feeding
pruning, etc.
3. Propagation
Methods of propagating this group of plants
Propagation of selected varieties
4. Hydroponics
Hydroponic growing conditions for carnations
Nutrient requirements
Suitable hydroponic systems
Planting out and cultural techniques
Carnation problems in hydroponics
Research insights
Growing in rock wool
NFT Culture
5. Pest and Disease
Fungal Diseases (e.g. wilts, rusts, rots)
Pests (e.g. aphids, bud worms, mites, nematodes
Bacterial Diseases
Viruses
Chemical Use
6. Irrigation
Water deficiency symptoms
Water excess symptoms
Understanding water movement in soil
Managing soil water loss
Improving water retention
Hygroscopic water and gravitational water
Field capacity
Plant available water
Permanent wilting point
Saturation
Irrigation infiltration and drainage
Irrigation timing
Irrigation system types
Irrigation system maintenance
Evapotranspiration
Controlling drainage
7. Greenhouse Management
Significance of greenhouse carnation production
Components of a greenhouse facility
Greenhouse types
Controlling an enclosed environment
Environmental factors (light, temperature, growing media/soil, air composition)
Managing greenhouse problems
Carbon dioxide enrichment
Heating
Ventilation
Lighting equipment
Irrigation and nutrition management in a greenhouse
Managing pest and disease in a greenhouse
Scheduling carnation crop production
8. Harvest, Post Harvest and Quality
When and how to harvest flowers
Factors that affect flower longevity after harvest
Chemical treatments
Other treatments
Quality control (judging and grading flowers, conditioning for market, packaging)
If you want to grow carnations and learn to harvest them, then this course is made for you! This online growing carnations course will teach you that and more. Such as the way to plant, water and feed them, they way to propagate them, the pests and diseases involved and how to control them, the way to manage greenhouse and more.
Carnations Distance Learning Course
“Study the different methods of growing and harvesting carnations”
A serious course equally valuable to the home enthusiast or the commercial cut flower grower. You learn about growing quality carnations (planting, watering, pest & disease control, fertilizing), different ways of growing them (e.g. as row crops in soil, in hydroponics, in a greenhouse); and harvesting, post-harvest treatments, and quality control.
Course Outline
There are 8 Lessons in this course:
1. Introduction
Review of the system of plant identification
Physiology
Information sources
2. Culture
Planting
staking
mulching
watering
feeding
pruning, etc.
3. Propagation
Methods of propagating this group of plants
Propagation of selected varieties
4. Hydroponics
Hydroponic growing conditions for carnations
Nutrient requirements
Suitable hydroponic systems
Planting out and cultural techniques
Carnation problems in hydroponics
Research insights
Growing in rock wool
NFT Culture
5. Pest and Disease
Fungal Diseases (e.g. wilts, rusts, rots)
Pests (e.g. aphids, bud worms, mites, nematodes
Bacterial Diseases
Viruses
Chemical Use
6. Irrigation
Water deficiency symptoms
Water excess symptoms
Understanding water movement in soil
Managing soil water loss
Improving water retention
Hygroscopic water and gravitational water
Field capacity
Plant available water
Permanent wilting point
Saturation
Irrigation infiltration and drainage
Irrigation timing
Irrigation system types
Irrigation system maintenance
Evapotranspiration
Controlling drainage
7. Greenhouse Management
Significance of greenhouse carnation production
Components of a greenhouse facility
Greenhouse types
Controlling an enclosed environment
Environmental factors (light, temperature, growing media/soil, air composition)
Managing greenhouse problems
Carbon dioxide enrichment
Heating
Ventilation
Lighting equipment
Irrigation and nutrition management in a greenhouse
Managing pest and disease in a greenhouse
Scheduling carnation crop production
8. Harvest, Post Harvest and Quality
When and how to harvest flowers
Factors that affect flower longevity after harvest
Chemical treatments
Other treatments
Quality control (judging and grading flowers, conditioning for market, packaging)
