YOU ASKED, WE TRIALED: 2024 FEATURE TRIALS
Each year our staff selects issues of interest to our customers and trial garden visitors for our annual features trials. The 2024 feature trials were designed to address several questions growers have posed to our trial garden staff: How many plants per pot do you use? How much fertilizer do you feed them? How much sun can foliage houseplants take?
FEATURE TRIAL: PLANTS PER POT
Trial garden visitors have often asked how many plants are grown in each of our pots, assuming that we use more than is typical or feasible for many growers to use. For one of this year’s feature trials, we selected some top varieties in a range of genera and grew them out in our standard 16” stone planters with either 3, 4, or our standard 5 plants per pot. We grew out these varieties side by side and tracked their development with photos at designated intervals throughout the summer. Here’s what we found:
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Some genera exhibit significant differences between 3 and 5 plants across the growing period, such as Begonia Adora™ Satin Rose and, surprising to us, Ipomoea Marguerite. These plants grew significantly larger as a 16” container with 5 plants in them than they did with 3 plants in them.
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