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Calibrachoa - MiniFamous™ Double MiniFamous™ Double Yellow MiniFamous™ Double Pink Blush

Calibrachoa - MiniFamous™ Compact 12 varieties to choose from MiniFamous™ Compact Safran - moved to the compact line in 2007 MiniFamous™ Compact Orange - moved to the compact line in 2009

Calibrachoa - MiniFamous Compact 12 varieties to choose from MiniFamous™ Compact Dark Red

Standard or Compact? MiniFamous™ Dark Blue vs. MiniFamous Compact Dark Blue

Calibrachoa - MiniFamous™ 19 varieties to choose from MiniFamous™ Scarlet MiniFamous™ Vampire evol.

Calibrachoa - MiniFamous™ 19 varieties to choose from MiniFamous™ Lavender Blue evol. MiniFamous™ Dark Blue evol.

Calibrachoa - MiniFamous™ 19 varieties to choose from MiniFamous™ Tangerine MiniFamous™ Lemon evol. Voted “Best New Variety” for 2009 at the UoF

Calibrachoa - MiniFamous™ Need an early flowering crop? Use MiniFamous™ Compact varieties or use HID lights! Start lights during the second week in propagation when the first roots have emerged. Apply at least 2 weeks of HID lights. Don’t use Florel or B-Nine, both are known to delay flowering.

Need an early flowering crop?

Use MiniFamous™ Compact varieties or use HID lights!

Start lights during the second week in propagation when the first roots have emerged.

Apply at least 2 weeks of HID lights.

Don’t use Florel or B-Nine, both are known to delay flowering.

New for 2008/09 - POP

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Osteospermum FlowerPower™ Europe’s #1 Osteospermum series; brilliant colors and uniform. FlowerPower™ Compact Our top-selling line, great for Southern areas, late plantings, and baskets. Zion™ Unique colors and large flowers with great consumer appeal. Kenai™ Outstanding colors through the summer. FlowerPower™ Spider Keeps attractive flower shape all summer

FlowerPower™ Europe’s #1 Osteospermum series; brilliant colors and uniform.

FlowerPower™ Compact Our top-selling line, great for Southern areas, late plantings, and baskets.

Zion™ Unique colors and large flowers with great consumer appeal.

Kenai™ Outstanding colors through the summer.

FlowerPower™ Spider Keeps attractive flower shape all summer

Osteospermum FlowerPower™ Orange FlowerPower™ Yellow evol.

Osteospermum FlowerPower™ Compact Pink FlowerPower™ Silver Pink

Osteospermum FlowerPower™ Compact Bronze FlowerPower™ Compact Lemon

Osteospermum FlowerPower™ Spider White Zion™ Sun Yellow

Osteospermum - Kenai™ Kenai™ Orange Dream evol. Kenai™ Orange Dream

Osteospermum - Points to a better crop Misting in Propagation: Osteospermum need more mist than other crops, they need misting much longer. Avoid over saturation of the soil in the first 10-14 days by misting in shorter intervals and less mist time, keep the cutting moist. Most critical are the first 4 days. Temperature in Propagation: Keep soil temperature at 70 °F especially during the first 14 days of root development. Don’t harden your liners off to harsh by moving them into a cool / cold area. Do it in stages, otherwise it will reduce branching and root growths after transplant.

Misting in Propagation: Osteospermum need more mist than other crops, they need misting much longer. Avoid over saturation of the soil in the first 10-14 days by misting in shorter intervals and less mist time, keep the cutting moist. Most critical are the first 4 days.

Temperature in Propagation: Keep soil temperature at 70 °F especially during the first 14 days of root development. Don’t harden your liners off to harsh by moving them into a cool / cold area. Do it in stages, otherwise it will reduce branching and root growths after transplant.

Osteospermum - Points to a better crop Temperature after transplanting: Keep the temperature up, days at 68-72 °F and nights at 61-64 °F until the plants started to branch and the side-shoots are about 1-inch long. Substrate, Fertilizer, pH, and EC: Use a well-draining, peat-moss based substrate that will maintain its structure during the longer crop time. Keep pH at about 6.2 and salt levels below EC 2.0. Pinching: Don’t wait until the liner is overgrown. Keep cuttings soft, growing, and compact before the pinch.

Temperature after transplanting: Keep the temperature up, days at 68-72 °F and nights at 61-64 °F until the plants started to branch and the side-shoots are about 1-inch long.

Substrate, Fertilizer, pH, and EC: Use a well-draining, peat-moss based substrate that will maintain its structure during the longer crop time. Keep pH at about 6.2 and salt levels below EC 2.0.

Pinching: Don’t wait until the liner is overgrown. Keep cuttings soft, growing, and compact before the pinch.

Osteospermum - Points to a better crop The Golden Rule: One thing at a time. Transplant in one week Next week pinch Next week drench PGR (or 2 weeks depending on the side shoots, which should be about 1-inch long) Next week lower the temperatures

The Golden Rule: One thing at a time.

Transplant in one week

Next week pinch

Next week drench PGR (or 2 weeks depending on the side shoots, which should be about 1-inch long)

Next week lower the temperatures

Osteospermum - April / May flowering North, spring flowering - 5-inch pot 14 - 15 weeks crop time. Week 1-5 rooting Week 6 transplant, keep the temperature at 68°F Week 7 pinch Week 8 or 9 PGR drench when side-shoots are about 1-inch long Week 9 or 10 lower the temperature to 58-62°F for flower development The plants will flower in about 6 - 7 weeks

North, spring flowering - 5-inch pot

14 - 15 weeks crop time.

Week 1-5 rooting

Week 6 transplant, keep the temperature at 68°F

Week 7 pinch

Week 8 or 9 PGR drench when side-shoots are about 1-inch long

Week 9 or 10 lower the temperature to 58-62°F for flower development

The plants will flower in about 6 - 7 weeks

Petunia Fame™ Fluorescent colors, mounding habit, and very early flowering for a fast finish. Perfect for mono baskets and pots. Famous™ Early flowering with full centers. The choice for mixed baskets. SweetSunshine™ Medium-sized fully double flowers that hold up excellent in different weather conditions. Medium, easy-to-control vigor. Charming™ Series with small flowers, mounding habit, very early flowering, and a stunning presentation of flower power. Prefect for small pots, containers, and baskets.

Fame™ Fluorescent colors, mounding habit, and very early flowering for a fast finish. Perfect for mono baskets and pots.

Famous™ Early flowering with full centers. The choice for mixed baskets.

SweetSunshine™ Medium-sized fully double flowers that hold up excellent in different weather conditions. Medium, easy-to-control vigor.

Charming™ Series with small flowers, mounding habit, very early flowering, and a stunning presentation of flower power. Prefect for small pots, containers, and baskets.

Petunia - Fame™

Petunia - Fame™ Fame™ Blue Velvet evol. Fame™ White evol.

Petunia - Famous™ Famous™ Lilac Picotee Famous™ Purple Dream Voted “Outstanding New Variety” for 2009 at the UoF

Petunia - Famous™ Famous™ Rose Star Famous™ Lilac Dark Vein

Petunia - SweetSunshine™

Petunia - SweetSunshine™ SweetSunshine™ Dark Blue

Petunia SweetSunshine™ Nostalgia … Lime

Petunia - Charming™ Charming™ Red Charming™ Dark Pink

Petunia Charming™ Blue

Verbena Fuego™ Large flowers and brilliant colors. Excellent outdoor performance. Perfect for mixed baskets. Lascar™ Early flowering with low easy-to-control vigor, excellent branching, and full centers. Perfect for mono baskets and pots.

Fuego™ Large flowers and brilliant colors. Excellent outdoor performance. Perfect for mixed baskets.

Lascar™ Early flowering with low easy-to-control vigor, excellent branching, and full centers. Perfect for mono baskets and pots.

Verbena - Fuego™ Fuego™ Bright Red Fuego™ Red evol.

Verbena - Lascar™ Lascar™ Dark Pink + Eye Lascar™ Burgundy

Verbena - Lascar™ Lascar™ Red evol. Lascar™ Red + Eye

Verbena - Lascar™ Red + Eye

Verbena Lascar™ Burgundy

NGI - ColorPower™

NGI - ColorPower™ ColorPower™ Lavender ColorPower™ White

NGI - ColorPower™

On the market since last season. Begonia - Bellfire™

On the market since last season.

On the market since 2 years. Begonia - Bonfire™

On the market since 2 years.

Begonia tips - rooting tuberous begonia requires long days - 14 hours avoid too much airflow in propagation mist in propagation only as little as possible, dryer is better maintain 72˚F in the substrate

tuberous begonia

requires long days - 14 hours

avoid too much airflow in propagation

mist in propagation only as little as possible, dryer is better

maintain 72˚F in the substrate

Begonia tips - rooting use paper pots or similar to avoid damage during transplanting start fertilizing when roots show pinch in the tray to node #3 or #4 keep substrate dry keep it bright

use paper pots or similar to avoid damage during transplanting

start fertilizing when roots show

pinch in the tray to node #3 or #4

keep substrate dry

keep it bright

Begonia tips continued pinch early! After developing node #5 the branch will become dormant. don’t allow temperature to drop below 58 ° F high light heavy feeder the later you start the faster and easier it’s is to grow a great plant.

pinch early! After developing node #5 the branch will become dormant.

don’t allow temperature to drop below 58 ° F

high light

heavy feeder

the later you start the faster and easier it’s is to grow a great plant.

Begonia - Bonfire™

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Ivy Geranium - Royal™ Early flowering Easy-to-control vigor Excellent resistance to Oedema

Early flowering

Easy-to-control vigor

Excellent resistance to Oedema

Ivy Geranium - Royal™

Ivy Geranium - Royal™

Ivy Geranium - Royal™ Royal™ Candy Pink

Zonal Geranium - Sunrise™ Zonal with green foliage Large flowers free-branching perfect for larger pots.

Zonal with green foliage

Large flowers

free-branching

perfect for larger pots.

Zonal Geranium - Sunrise™ Sunrise™ Dark Pink + Eye Sunrise™ Rose evol.

Geranium - Moonlight™ Zonal Geranium with dark foliage Brilliant colors on dark foliage uniform and early flowering

Zonal Geranium with dark foliage

Brilliant colors on dark foliage

uniform and early flowering

Zonal Pelargonium - Moonlight™ Moonlight™ Brilliant Red evol. Moonlight™ Dark Salmon evol.

Zonal Pelargonium - Moonlight™ Moonlight™ Cranberry Blush

Geranium Sunrise™ Strawberry Blush

Geranium Sunrise™ Raspberry Eye

Argyranthemum - LaRita™ LaRita™ Choose from a range of great performing varieties with excellent branching, easy-to-control vigor, appealing flower display, and early flowering.

LaRita™

Choose from a range of great performing varieties with excellent branching, easy-to-control vigor, appealing flower display, and early flowering.

Argyranthemum - LaRita™ LaRita™ Dark Pink LaRita™ Purple

Argyranthemum - LaRita™ LaRita™ Double Lemon LaRita™ Lavender Voted “Outstanding New Variety” for 2009 at the UoF

Angelonia - Angelina™ Angelina™ Violet and White evol.

Nemesia - Serengeti® Incredible colors, large flowers, and constant flowering. Two growth habits to choose from that give outstanding consumer appeal.

Incredible colors, large flowers, and constant flowering.

Two growth habits to choose from that give outstanding consumer appeal.

Serengeti® Nemesia

Nemesia - Serengeti® Serengeti™ Sunny Red Serengeti™ Sunset evol.

Nemesia - Serengeti® Serengeti™ White evol. Serengeti™ Upright Yellow evol.

Nemesia - Serengeti® Serengeti™ Upright Purple Serengeti™ Upright Violet + White

Lobelia - Magadi™ Magadi™ Brilliant colors and different habits to choose from. A lobelia selection that works for the grower and the consumer.

Magadi™

Brilliant colors and different habits to choose from. A lobelia selection that works for the grower and the consumer.

Lobelia - Magadi™ Magadi™ White evol. Magadi™ Basket Purple Eye

Lobelia™ Magadi Magadi™ Ocean Blue Voted “Outstanding New Variety” for 2009 at the UoF

Great for the early flowering crop as well as in 4.5” pots. Lobelia - Magadi™ Compact Blue

Great for the early flowering crop as well as in 4.5” pots.

Bracteantha- Mohave™ Early flowering Excellent garden and summer performance Brilliant colors Easy-to-grow

Early flowering

Excellent garden and summer performance

Brilliant colors

Easy-to-grow

Bracteantha - Mohave™ Mohave™ Yellow Mohave™ Lemon evol. Voted “Outstanding New Variety” for 2009 at the UoF

Bracteantha - Mohave™ Mohave™ Fire

No new varieties for 2008 / 09 Nemesia - Elph™

No new varieties for 2008 / 09

No new varieties for 2008 / 09 Diascia - Piccadilly™

No new varieties for 2008 / 09

Heliotrope - Marino™ Marino™ Silver Blue evol.

Nierembergia - Lara™ White

Gaura - Belleza™ Belleza™ White evol.

Scaevola - Fairy™ Fairy™ Violet Fairy™ White

Scaevola - Fairy™ GPN Magazine, October 2008: Scaevola Fairy series The Fairy series of scaevola from Selecta First Class has three new colors: Blue evol., White and Violet. We evaluated all three in this year’s trial and they have very similar habits, with Violet being slightly more vigorous than the other two. They are a semi-compact series, more compact than ‘Bombay blue’ but not as compact as the Surdiva series. All had good flower coverage by late May and maintained this high level of flowering throughout the summer. The compact nature of this series will help them from getting too intertwined during production, and a light PGR application will help minimize that issue. Their semi-compact nature lends them to basket production and they will also function as low-growing plants in landscaping.

GPN Magazine, October 2008:

Scaevola Fairy series

The Fairy series of scaevola from Selecta First Class has three new colors: Blue evol., White and Violet. We evaluated all three in this year’s trial and they have very similar habits, with Violet being slightly more vigorous than the other two. They are a semi-compact series, more compact than ‘Bombay blue’ but not as compact as the Surdiva series. All had good flower coverage by late May and maintained this high level of flowering throughout the summer. The compact nature of this series will help them from getting too intertwined during production, and a light PGR application will help minimize that issue. Their semi-compact nature lends them to basket production and they will also function as low-growing plants in landscaping.

Sanvitalia - Bidens Tsavo™ Yellow Ice Namid™ Compact Yellow

Pot Carnation - SuperTrouper™ SuperTrouper™ Pot Carnations are an excellent pot and garden plant with a large color range and nice scent. Hardy to zone 5. An all-around great pot carnation series.

SuperTrouper™

Pot Carnations are an excellent pot and garden plant with a large color range and nice scent. Hardy to zone 5.

An all-around great pot carnation series.

Pot Carnation SuperTrouper™ Cherry + Velvet SuperTrouper™ Lilac on Purple evol.

Pot Carnation SuperTrouper™ Magenta + White SuperTrouper™ Purple evol.

Pot Carnation SuperTrouper™ Silver Pink SuperTrouper™ Sun Yellow evol.

Pot Carnation SuperTrouper™ Velvet + White SuperTrouper™ Velvet Red evol.

MiniRooter™ - New from Selecta

MiniRooter™ - New from Selecta MiniRooter™ 200 cuttings per tray 800 liners per box Little to no delay compared to a standard 105-cell tray Bidens, Calibrachoa, Diascia, Lobelia, Nemesia, Nierembergia, Petunia, Sanvitalia, Scaevola, Sutera, and Verbena.

MiniRooter™

200 cuttings per tray

800 liners per box

Little to no delay compared to a standard 105-cell tray

Bidens, Calibrachoa, Diascia, Lobelia, Nemesia, Nierembergia, Petunia, Sanvitalia, Scaevola, Sutera, and Verbena.

TrixiLiner™ - New from Selecta TrixiLiner™ The new and easy way to combinations. 10 recipes to choose from. Each TrixiLiner™ mix is composed with complimenting varieties that will produce a stunning mixed basket or planter.

TrixiLiner™

The new and easy way to combinations.

10 recipes to choose from. Each TrixiLiner™ mix is composed with complimenting varieties that will produce a stunning mixed basket or planter.

TrixiLiner™ - New from Selecta TrixiLiner™ A combination of three different varieties per liner, using one crop or mixing different crops. The liners are pinched and ready to grow for a quick finish. The 72-cell format keeps shipping affordable but is still large enough for a great energy-charged liner.

TrixiLiner™

A combination of three different varieties per liner, using one crop or mixing different crops. The liners are pinched and ready to grow for a quick finish.

The 72-cell format keeps shipping affordable but is still large enough for a great energy-charged liner.

TrixiLiner™ - New from Selecta Ayers Rock Spring Valley Calibrachoa MiniFamous™ Compact Orange Lobelia Magadi™ White evol. Calibrachoa MiniFamous™ Lavender Blue evol. Verbena Fuego™ Red evol. Calibrachoa MiniFamous™ Tangerine Lobelia Magadi™ Basket Purple + Eye

Ayers Rock

Spring Valley

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