APAC Dianthus webinar: Successful production

Dianthus (chinensis & chinensis x barbatus). Deep dive into technology

Syngenta Flowers APAC Technical Webinar for Tropical Regions 10-24-2024 2 p.m.

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Dianthus portfolio.

NEW

Charm (Dianthus chinensis F1) Pots / Patio pots /Landscape

Super Parfait (Dianthus chinensis F1)

Venti Parfait (Dianthus chinensis F1)

Elation (Dianthus chinensis x barbatus F1)

Patio pots / Landscape

Patio pots / Landscape

Landscape / Pots

individual color

3 colors & 1 mix

4 colors & 1 mix

5 colors & 1 mix

Catalogue reference, page 38.

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5 components of success with Dianthus

pH < 5.8!

Hot start – cold finish.

Long day

Feed your plants.

Negative DIF

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Start to care from seed stage.

Be sure your seeds came from reliable source. Inform Customer Service. Seeds storage. Keep seeds from heat and sun. Proper temperature + 3–5 0 C. Relative humidity 40–60 %. Safe or lockers.  Keep open sachet only with temperature + 3–5 0 C.

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Substrate. Keep pH 5.5 ― 5.8

• Porous substrate (Up to 20―30% of perlite). • Suitable substrate components:

 cocopeat  peatmoss  wood fiber peat

Wood fiber based.

• Rinse cocopeat well. • Airy agent: perlite > sand > zeolite > vermiculite. • Sift the substrate to obtain a uniform particle size 0―5 mm. • pH range: 5.5―5.8(5.9) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

pH < 5.8.

Cocopeat.

Peatmoss plug.

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Sowing / germination stage

• Suggested tray size – 288 cell • Seed – place 1 seed per cell • Do I need to cover the seed?  YES  Light is not required • Germination chamber - optional • Soil Temp: 23―24 0 C 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Level 5 SATURATED

Level 4 WET

Level 3 MEDIUM

Level 2 MEDIUM DRY

Level 1 DRY

Keep substrate moisture on level 3 and 4. Media should be allowed to dry between irrigations

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Young plant stage. Hot start – cold continue.

• Germination temperature:

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

• Temperature - Day:

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

- Night:

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

• Light intensity : 35―45 KLk

Hot start – cold continue

Partial Sun/Shade

Moderate Shade

Full Sun

Light Shade

Heavy Shade

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Young plant stage. Hot start – cold continue.

• Use natural condition (Chandigarh):

Best sowing time

Hot start – cold continue

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Young plant stage. Hot start – cold continue

• Outer shading. • Cooling evaporation. • Better use under bench evaporation system to avoid overwatering.

• Don’t apply spraying too much! And don’t apply it in high humidity condition (when RH higher than 75 %) . It can interrupt transpiration in plant.

Cooling evaporation can help to cool down air in the greenhouse and promotes air circulation

Screens made by flece by fleece

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Young plant stage. Keep pH < 5.8.

• Checking pH regularly: - in the water before every watering. - in the substrate one time per week. • pH range: 5.5―5.8(5.9)

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2 3 4 5

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• Keep substrate moisture on level 3 and 4 . Media should be allowed to dry between irrigations.

Level 5 SATURATED

Level 4 WET

Level 3 MEDIUM

Level 2 MEDIUM DRY

Level 1 DRY

pH < 5.8.

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Young plant stage. Feed your plants.

• Substrate EC (SME): 0.9―1.3 mS/cm • Provide plant with 75―125 ppm of nitrogen. • Do not use too much phosphorus! • Suitable NPK rate: 15-5-15, 15-3-15 15-5-10, 18-5-15, 17-5-17. • Give fertilizers with every watering.

Proper NPK rate

• Do not use 15 - 15 - 15 or 17 - 17 - 17 ! • Do not use ureum (NH2)2CO! • Do not use clean water (without fertilizers). • Do not use dry fertilizers

Feed your plants

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Dianthus young plants disease management

Most common Dianthus seedling diseases.

Disease

Active ingredients (rate in chemical)

Active Ingredient concentration in solution g/l*

Use as prophylactic

iprodione (50%)

1.25 g/l

tetrachloroisophthalonitrile (82.5%)

0.83–1.2 g/l 0.5–0,75 g/l 0.75–1,25 g/l

Botrytis

fenhexamid (50%)

pentachloronitrobenzene (75%)

azoxystrobin (50%)

0.15 g/l

pyraclostrobin (12.8%) + boscalid (25.2%)

0.03–0.07 g/l pyraclostrobin or/and 0.05–0.15 g/l boscalid

Pythium

propamocarb (600 g/l)

1.8 g/l

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mancozeb (640 g/kg) + mefenoxam (metalaxyl-M) (40 g/kg)

3.2 g/l mancozeb + 0.2 g/l mefenoxam 0.4 g/l azoxystrobin + 0.16 g/l cyproconazole

azoxystrobin (200 g/l) + cyproconazole (80 g/l)

Alternaria

+

fludioxonil (25 g/l)

0.05 g/l 0.04 g/l

difenoconazole (25 g/l)

Plant protection

* Rotate active ingredients (AI). Don’t apply the same AI more than 3 times at row. Check phytotoxicity!

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Transplanting. Substrates mixtures.

Example of substrate mixtures:  1/3 natural soil + 1/3 vermicompost + 1/6 cocopeat + 1/6 husk compost,  1/3 natural soil + 1/3 vermicompost + 1/3 cocopeat,  1/2 rice husk* + 1/4 cocopeat + 1/4 vermicompost,  1/2 rice husk + 1/4 perlite + 1/4 cocopeat + 1/8 vermicompost… * rice husk has suitable for Dianthus - low pH • Avoid using vermiculite (too high pH) • At ready stage most of component are suitable if you provide good protection. • Add Trichoderma-base or bacterial-base chemical into substrate mixture.

pH < 5.8!

EXAMPLE

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Transplanting. Substrates mixtures.

Use filling components for big containers:  coco cheeps,

 bark. Pot size:  packs,

 10 cm pots,  15 cm pots,  30 cm containers.

pH < 5.8!

Put hypocotyl below the substrate surface but don’t put plants too deep

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Vegetation. Negative DIF or cool morning .

• Catharanthus is a really heat and light loving crop. • Temperature - Day:

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

- Night:

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

• Light intensity : 35 ―50 KLk

Partial Sun/Shade

Moderate Shade

Full Sun

Light Shade

Heavy Shade

Negative DIF.

• Provide 3 ― 6 0C negative DIF in the morning.

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Vegetation. pH < 5.8. Feed your plants.

• pH range: 5.5―5.8(5.9)

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2 3 4 5

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• Substrate EC SME: 1.5―2.1 mS/cm • Fertigation: 125―175 ppm of nitrogen

• Keep substrate moisture on level 2 and 4. Media should be allowed to dry between irrigations. Level 5 SATURATED Level 4 WET Level 3 MEDIUM Level 2 MEDIUM DRY

Feed your plants.

Level 1 DRY

pH < 5.8.

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Vegetation. Feed your plants well. • Translate 125―175 ppm of nitrogen to gram of NPK. • Do not use too much phosphorus! • Suitable NPK rate: 15-5-15, 15-3-15 15-5-10, 18-5-15, 17-5-17. How to convert ppm of N into mass of fertilizers?  The range of nitrogen recommended in the growing tips is 57―125 ppm.  Let’s start with 125 ppm.  125 ppm means 125 mg should be added into 1 l of water.  There is available fertilizer with NPK rate like 15–5–17 % on the farm.  NPK rate like 15–5–17 contains 15 mg of nitrogen in 100 mg.  Thus, to get 125 mg of nitrogen we need to take: (125 x 100)/15 = 833,3* mg of fertilizer.  The same calculation for 175 mg of nitrogen we need to take: (175 x 100)/15 = 1166,7 mg of fertilizer. * 833,3 (0.5 g) provides EC in the water about 1,2―1,4 mSm/cm

Proper NPK rate

Feed your plants.

! Don’t forget to provide Ca and Mg every 5 th or 6 th watering!

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Vegetation. Long day.

Long day condition promotes blooming ( Elation series )

Long day

9.5 hours

10.5 hours

11.5 hours

13.5 hours

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Ready to bloom.

• Continue to follow up production scheduling. • Don’t stop to control parameters. • Adjust fertigation compound more suitable for blooming plants: 15-5- 20 , 10-5- 20 . Give them a bit more K • Continue to check pH and EC in the substrate.

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Q&A session.

• Thank you for your time. • For more information, please contact your Key Account Manager.

Amjad.Iqbal@syngenta.com Key Account Manager SEAP (South East Asia & Pakistan) (Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Phillipines, Cambodja, etc

Ivan.Pozdnyakov@syngenta.com Technical Sales Specialist SA/SEAP

Gautam.Sangle@syngenta.com Key Account Manager SA (South Asia) (India, Nepal, Bangladesh)

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