Grower

Grower

• Ability to manage staff when

  working in your area

• Open and closing their area

• Temperature control

• Setting appropriate temperatures

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• Double checking equipment in morning and night and before, especially before

  inclement weather!

• Adjusting during the day to clouds or sun/temperature fluctuation

• Controlling

  light-shade

  clothe/blackout systems/forced lights

Manage fertility tanks

• Mixing, Calibrating, testing and adjusting

• Making fertility decisions

• When to grow/hold

• What type and rate

• pH/alkalinity &

  sensitivity

  on

  specific

  crops

• Iron efficient or inefficient?

Watering

• 3 watering checks a day

• Decision making- proper timing

• Spotting

  or water full?

• What is the weather? What time is it?

• Double checking greenhouse assistants (head

  grower

  and assistant

  grower

  should be

  training,

  but

  growers

  should be sure the watering is

  done

  appropriately)

• You are

  ultimately

  responsible for Everything done in your area;

  Right, or wrong

• Checking roots for salts and disease

  (E.C.)

• Scouting/Monitoring disease/insects/unsuitable

  growth

• Spraying/drenching

  Insecticides/Miticides/Fungicides/PGR's

• Cleanliness of range

• Rolling hoses up, cleaning sidewalks, organizing shelves/flagging material, leftover pots, flats in aisle,

  etc.

• Sterilizing/disinfecting between crops

• Weed prevention and control

• Grading crop/pulling out dead or runts

• Pulling orders

• In communication with stores about outages or substitutions

• Knowing when things are green, ripe, rotten. Motive

  is

  to ship only the

  ripe

  material

• Holding or flagging presold material

• Inventory

• Ability to multitask or accomplish many of these tasks simultaneously.

• Take notes

  in journal

  and allow production coordinator to

  file them