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      • Tomatoes
      • Peppers and Eggplant
      • Cucumbers
      • Herbs
      • Fruit
      • Mushrooms
      • Cannabis
      • Aquaponics
      • Other
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Foliage Plant Production

NutritionInformation below focuses on production of foliage plants.  General information is near the top of this page and more crop specific information is towards the bottom of this page.

General Info:
Simplify production with cutting time TM callused cuttings (Syngenta).

Foliage for the great indoors (Behe, 2014).​
Development of new foliage plant cultivars (Chen Henny and McConnell, 2002).
Cultivar development of ornamental foliage plants (Henny and Chen, 2016).
Tropical foliage plant development:  Origin of new cultivars (Henny and Chen, 2008).

Light and Temperature:
Light and Fertilizer recommendations for production of acclimatized potted foliage plants (Conover and Poole, CFREC-A Research Report RH-90-1)

Nutrition:
Magnesium deficiency of foliage plants.  (McRitchie, Plant Path Circ., #354, 1992).
Designing a fertilizer program for interior tropical foliage plants (Lyden, Framlife Tropical Foliage).

Plant Growth Regulation:
Controlling growth in five species of herbaceous foliage plants (Pennisi, 2014. UGA Extension Bull., #925).
Plant growth regulators effects on the growth and photosynthetic pigments on three indoor ornamental plants. (Sardoei, 2014. Europ. J Expt. Biol., 4(2):311-318.
A new growth regulator for greenhouse plants (Hickman, 1986.  California Agr., October).
Using gibberellin acid and ethephon to induce flowers on tropical foliage plants (Henny and Chen, 2018).
A review of literature concerning the use of growth retardants on tropical foliage plants (Henny).
Plant growth regulator drenches suppress foliage and inflorescence height of 'Leia' Pineapple Lily (Carlson et al., 2015).

Diseases:
Tropical foliage plants:  Your worst enemies (Chase, Apr, 2015).

Pests:
Mealybugs only seem invincible (Gilrein, Greenhouse Management, 2014).


Begonia:
Recycling the Rex Begonia (Schoellhorn, GPN, Nov., 2002).

Boston Fern:
Thermomorphogenic and photoperiodic responses of Nephrolepis exaltata 'Dallas Jewel' (Erwin et al., 1993).

Chlorophytum (Spider plant):
Influence of photoperiod and light quality on stolon formation and flowering of Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.) Jacques (Heins and Wilkins, 1978).

Epipremnum:
Cultural guidelines for commercial production of interiors cape Epipremnum (McConnell et al., 2018).


Ginger:
How to grow superfoods ginger and turmeric in containers (Flores, Frey and Fisher, Greenhouse Grower, 2018)

Ipomea (Sweet Potato Vine)
Culture report:  Ipomea SolarPower series (Carlsson, 2016).
Producing ornamental sweet potato vine commercially (Carey, Whipker and Buhler, 2007).

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