Increasing Productivity in Propagation

摘要

Prides Corner Farms is a large wholesale nursery in eastern Connecticut that produces a diverse line of woody ornamentals, herbaceous perennials, herbs, trees, fruits, and vegetables. Our propagation department generated over 3.5 million woody and perennial liners this past year. We use almost all propagation techniques including: unrooted cuttings, grafting, seeds, root divisions, and micropropa-ijation to accomplish our tasks. Because we typically use more than 2-3 cuttings per propagation cell, we'll stick over 4 million cuttings. As you can imagine, we need to stick hard and fast in order to get all our liners done in a timely fashion. My olyective today is to explain how Prides Corner Farms uses group incentives as a motivational tool to help increase productivity in propagation.