Hi All,
Just a friendly reminder that our next Evergreen Chrysanthemum Association meeting is Saturday, July 9th at 10 am at Volunteer Park Conservatory. Hope to see you all there!
The June presentation on growing and grooming cascades and Bonsais was a huge success. A big shout out and THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge of with the ECA membership. I’m sorry that we were unable to record the presentation. Perhaps that’s something we can work on in the future.
Reflecting back on the 2022 growing season, the last 6 months have been educational and busy! The first quarter of the year our membership started over 1500 mums and had a successful cutting university and plant sale, in the second quarter our focus was on root development and progressive potting techniques. We’ve had many discussions about watering, fertilizing, pinching, disease and pest control. In this next few months our focus will be on plant development and lateral management. July and August are the primary growing months for our mums so watering, fertilizing, disease and pest management regimens should be in full swing by now. Our mums should be in their final 8 to 10 inch pots and in a growing location that gets lots of sunshine. We will start to see laterals and side shoots developing for those plants that were pinched in May and early June. In addition to watering, fertilizing, disease and pest management, its time to introduce a few more topics for discussion including lateral selection and management, staking, flushing, top dressing and “taking the bud”.
Our July cultural notes will introduce some of these new topics.
These supplies will be available at the July meeting
fertilizer, twist ties, labels, B-9, Marathon, M&R mix and support stakes will be available at the meeting.
Some Important ECA Calendar Dates:
July 2022 ECA Meeting 7/9/22 at 10: 00 am at Volunteer Park Conservatory
August 2022 ECA Meeting 8/9/22 at 10:00 am at Volunteer Park Conservatory
September 2022 ECA Meeting 9/10/22 at 10:00 am at Volunteer Park Conservatory
October 2022 ECA Meeting 10/8/22 at 10:00 am at Volunteer Park Conservatory
ECA 2022 75th annual Chrysanthemum show October 28- 30, 2022 at Volunteer Park Conservatory
