July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: An inquiry from the New York Times in February 2005 prompted us to investigate the effects of growing paperwhite narcissus with dilute alcohol solutions. ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: While considering problems with regrowth of perennials, we conducted several experiments looking at planting depth of the bare root. Commercial recommendations often state “plant the ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: From 1999 to 2003, a large experiment was conducted at Cornell (Ithaca, NY, zone 5), Riverhead (Long Island, zone 6), and Clemson University (Clemson, ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: The American Floral Endowment has generously agreed to fund a proposal we wrote on a problem we are calling “postharvest bud necrosis” in oriental hybrid ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: In North America, the major growth sector in recent years has been “vegetative annuals”, personified by new breeding efforts in crops such as calibrachoa, ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: In 2004, Martijn Verlouw, our Dutch student intern for the year, became interested in Fascination, and conducted an experiment with two species tulips. The results ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: One of the early success stories of the program was our work on the hormonal formulation, Fascination, on Easter and hybrid lilies. Fascination is ...
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July 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: In a continuing program, each year we evaluate a number of cultivars of hybrid lilies for response to plant growth regulators (PGRs) with the ...
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April 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: In the previous Newsletter, we reported on Cornell research on upper leaf necrosis, a calcium deficiency disorder that occurs in many Oriental hybrid lily cultivars. In oriental ...
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April 2005 issue of the Cornell Flower Bulb Research Program Research Newsletter: Growers of Oriental hybrid lilies, especially the cultivar ‘Star Gazer’ are familiar with an upper leaf “burn” that is commonly seen on ‘Star Gazer’ ...
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