Strategies for Propagating Vegetables Workshop
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Strategies for Propagating Vegetables
Do you have questions about: how to maximize the quality of your vegetables through your propagation practices and management? If so, you are not alone! Join us for a day-long workshop.
When Thursday, March 1st, 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
Where The Onslow County Cooperative Extension Office
8:30-9:00 Sign Up with Coffee and Donuts
9:00-10:00 The propagation Environment
- controlled environments and structures used for starting seeds
- managing the environment: temperature and water relationships
- juggling a variety of crops in a controlled environment
- bmp’s/ipm
10:00-11:00 seed physiology
- trait selection
- treatments for disease management
- seedling management
- factors that affect uniformity of crop and how variability affects yield
11:00-12:00 media and nutrient balances to meeting cropping demands
- focused on the 4Rs
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 saving your own seeds
- how to save your seed
- the implications from a disease management and genotype perspective
- pre and post-harvest factors affecting seed viability
- factors that affect seed vigor
- storage environment
2:00-3:00 hands-on activity
Register by Feb 26th https://goo.gl/ESdLgW
information please contact Lisa Rayburn lisa_rayburn@ncsu.edu or Wesley Stallings wcstalli@ncsu.edu