PSS 138 - Commercial Plant Propagation
Spring 2008
Tentative Lab Schedule
Tuesday
Date Lab
# Topic
January 15 Lecture on structures, environment and propagation media
January 22 1 Greenhouse use and UVM greenhouse orientation, sanitation,
mycorrhizal additives and pea inoculation labs
January 29 2 Seed
production/pollination/viability/polyembryony__________________
February 5 3 Seed pretreatment (stratification/scarification)
February 12 4 Hardwood cuttings (Lab #2 DUE)
February 19 5 Herbaceous cuttings, air layering
February 26 6 Specialized
stem & root propagation (bulbs, rhizomes and stolons)
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March 4 Town Meeting Day (Lab #3 DUE)
March 11 No Lab, Spring Break
March 18 7 Micropropagation of Venus fly trap and sundew by axillary shoot
proliferation, African violet by adventitious shoot initiation and amaryllis
by aseptically germinated seed. Harvest peas. (Lab #6 DUE)
March 25 Harvest deciduous woody and herbaceous
cuttings, pot up tree seedlings
(Lab
#7 DUE)
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April 1 8 Bench grafting: Apple, elm and spruce. Transfer African violets.
(Lab #5 DUE)
April 8 9 Bench grafting: Side-veneer (tomato), cleft (tomato-potato) &
T-budding (citrus). (Lab #1 DUE)
April 15 Harvest evergreen cuttings, transplant African
violets, pot pineapples,
check
air layers and bulb scales. Transfer Venus fly traps and sundews to
Terrarium.
(Lab #8 & 9 DUE)
April 22 10 Tour
ClaussenÕs greenhouse (local commercial operation). (Lab #4
DUE)
*** all plants must be removed from the greenhouses by the Final Exam (May 6th).