Key Growing Information
Stock | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing STOCK flowers from seed. Read more for a successful harvest!
Key Growing Information
Rootstock Tomatoes | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing rootstock tomatoes. Read more for a successful harvest!
Join us in our fall tunnel trial to learn about the StoX® series. View StoX compared to the Iron series, including some helpful color comparisons.
Follow the detailed recommendations in this Tech Sheet for successful production of stock flowers (Matthiola incana), from Site Selection and Culture to How to Select and Prepare Seedlings for Double-Flowered vs. Single-Flowered Blooms, Transplanting, Pinching, Pests and Diseases, and Harvesting, from the Flower Research Team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Get a tour of our late-winter/spring-sown stock trials, with variety recommendations and tips for successful early-spring production, from the research team at Johnny's.
This video will show you how to select your plants at the seedling stage to increase the number of double-flowering plants you have in a planting.
Follow the recommendations in this Tech Sheet for best results with germination of 'Maxifort,’ an interspecific tomato cross — the product of traditional plant breeding crosses between a domesticated tomato parent and a wild tomato parent. To improve germination rate and uniformity, we recommend careful consideration of the measures we have outlined here.
Learn why not all pea seed is created equal by reading the Story of 'Sugar Ann' Snap Pea at Johnny's Selected Seeds. Not only are there differences between pea varieties, even seed lots of the same pea variety can vary widely in quality, depending on how the seed crop is grown and managed. To achieve uniformity, or purity, of the seed lot, one must start with a high-quality, uniform batch of seeds — or, as we say in the seed industry, "stock seeds" — to grow the seed crop to a workable size. And, one must also maintain this quality over time. Here's how we do it...
Johnny's Cucumber Trial Tech Nate Gorlin-Crenshaw distills two reliable and straightforward techniques for grafting greenhouse cucumber variety scions onto 'Tetuskabuto' rootstock.
A slide deck recap of Johnny's Fundamentals of Tomato Grafting Webinar. Topics: • Why graft? • Rootstock selection • Demo: How to top-graft • Healing protocol • Grower experiences • ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Follow the steps in this Tech Sheet for best results with top-grafting greenhouse cucumbers onto an interspecific squash cross rootstock to reach earlier harvests, improve plant health and stress tolerance, and increase net income.
Article
5 Cool Flowers to Plant Now | Lisa Mason Ziegler's Secrets for Growing Hardy, Cool-Season Annuals
Here are Lisa Ziegler's 5 recommended "Cool Flowers" — cold-tolerant hardy annuals for overwintering and shoulder-season growing for the earliest possible blooms in spring.