Cultural Activity:
The students are pinching the plants today, a very important procedure that will encourage lateral growth and slow down the apical dominance that is natural in poinsettias. Basically making the plants more bushy.
Details: The students are pinching the plants by performing a diagonal cut (with sanitized pruning shears) above the 6th or 7th node, counting from the bottom of the stem up.
The greenhouse shade curtains above the crop will be set to 25% to avoid the sun burning the fresh wounds made from pinching the plants.
Greenhouse Action:
Sidewalls:
Opened at 25% at 10:30AM
Fully opened at 11:15AM
Closed at 4:00PM
Shade Curtains:
Opened 25%
Irrigation:
Christmas Joy White and Christmas Joy Pink on bench 3 watered with Ca(NO₃) at 1:30PM
Climate:
Weather : Overcast, with rain and thunder in the afternoon and evening
Temperature Max: 26.61 at 10:33AM
Temperature Min: 19.6 at 7:04AM
Mean : 22.15
Humidity Max : 77.7% at 9:08PM
Humidity Min: 49% at 10:34PM
Mean 52.99%
