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Pot Plants

Everything you need to know about growing pot plants including Poinsettia and Cyclamen

Grow, nurture, protect your pot plants

Cyclamen grown in pots

ICL specialises in bespoke solutions from growing media and nutrition to plant protection and health. Alongside these innovative products are a team of dedicated professionals able to advice and recommend solutions for growers’ piece of mind and assurance.

General Pot Plants

Pot and Patio plants are usually potted into pots from 9 -13cm pots. Typically plants include Pelargoniums and  Begonias. Often growers can face challenges managing growth under protection and maintaining compact growth and flowering.

Poinsettias

Usually potted into 9cm pots (Range 6-10cm) for Mini’s  which are generally used in planted bowls and novelty pots, 13cm pots (Range 10-17cm) for the Midi’s / Large for use as specimen house plants.

The challenges of this crop are well known. It is a long crop cycle and the plants need to be closely monitored. Key challenges are the continual supply of calcium to the crop to avoid browning of the leaf edges.

Cyclamen

Usually potted into 9cm pots (Range 6-10cm) for Mini’s  which are generally used in tubs and garden planting, and 13cm pots (Range 10-17cm) for the Midi’s / Large for use as house plants.

Potted in batches, the early crops face coping with summer heat and growth under protection needs to be managed to maintaining compact growth and flowering, to minimise risk of Botrytis fungal attack of soft growth. Later potted  crops face cooler nights, so  irrigation needs to be minimized  to keep humidity low to reduce risk of fungal attack. For Mini crops being marketed in the  late autumn hardiness is increasingly important and keeping the plants growing healthily in these conditions is a challenge.

 

Recommendations

ICL recommends using these products to grow, nurture and protect your pot plants

Grow

ICL offers standard off the shelf solutions with its Levington Advance Peat Reduced and  Levington Advance Sustain Peat Free growing media, as well as bespoke growing media mixes as required with Levington Advance Solutions

Nurture

Osmocote Exact High K matches the plant demand, after plant establishment, there is an enhanced Potassium release which optimises compact growth and flowering.

Protect

To keep plants free of pest and diseases ICL offer Prestop within the growing media mixes to help prevent root disease and keep plants healthy, as well as Mainspring for protection from Western Flower Thrip.

ICL also have a the Vitalnova range of biostimulant to help boost plant health throughout the growing season.

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Grow

ICL offers standard off the shelf solutions with its Levington Advance Peat Reduced and  Levington Advance Sustain Peat Free growing media, as well as bespoke growing media mixes as required with Levington Advance Solutions

Nurture

While Poinsettia are traditionally grown with purely water soluble fertilizers, many growers now appreciate the efficiency and ease of using Osmocote 5 for the core nutrition combined with supplementary water soluble feeding. Osmocote gives more compact growth from the steady supply of nutrients and the reduction in feed related irrigation cycles. Crop safety under glass.

You can also top up your nutrition throughout the growing season where you think it is needed with Peters Excel CalMag Grower as required.  Offering a simple  but high quality one tank solution , combining all the nutrients including Calcium.  Ask ICL for more details.

Protect

To keep plants free of pest and diseases ICL offer Prestop within the growing media mixes to help prevent root disease and keep plants healthy, as well as Mainspring for protection from Western Flower Thrip.

ICL also have a the Vitalnova range of biostimulant to help boost plant health throughout the growing season.

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Grow

ICL offers standard off the shelf solutions with its Levington Advance Peat Reduced and  Levington Advance Sustain Peat Free growing media, as well as bespoke growing media mixes as required with Levington Advance Solutions

Nurture

The release of Osmocote Exact High K matches the plant demand , after plant establishment, there is an enhanced Potassium release optimizing  compact growth and flowering.  Watering can be kept to a minimum as Osmocote Exact High K  is steadily releasing nutrients., whereas as feeding with WSF would require giving extra water just to feed , even on cool days when the botrytis risk is highest.

Protect

To keep plants free of pest and diseases ICL offer Prestop within the growing media mixes to help prevent root disease and keep plants healthy, as well as Mainspring for protection from Western Flower Thrip.

ICL also have a the Vitalnova range of biostimulant to help boost plant health throughout the growing season.

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