Tagetes webinar 1: Successful germination stage

Tagetes erecta (African Marigold) Technical tips for successful germination

Webinar, 08-08-2024

Inca Orange 70041091

Tagetes assortment #1

Great trinity: Antigua, Inca & Inca II

Inca (9 – 10 cm pot)

Antigua (packs, 9 – 11 cm pot) Excellent choice for rain season

Inca II (9-11 cm pots)

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Tagetes erecta assortment #2 Perfection – for perfect landscaping performance

Perfection (10-17 cm pots)

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Tagetes assortment #3 New members in the star team.

Cheerleader (10-15 cm pots)

WhiteGold Max (10-15 cm pots)

Big top (10-15 cm pots)

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Tagetes erecta assortment #3

Series

Genetic

Pot size

Width

Height

Plant type

Application

Specific features

Antigua

Syngenta Syngenta Syngenta Syngenta Syngenta Floranova Floranova Floranova

9-11 9-11 9-11

25-30 30-35 30-35 30-35 35-45

25-30 30-35

Compact Pack Bedding & Borders Genetically compact

Inca

Medium Pack

Landscape Landscape Landscape

Top sales

Inca II

30-35 Medium Landscape 60-75 Vigorous Landscape

Day neytral

Perfection

10-17

Indi

-

90-100

Garland

Garland

Big Top

10-15 10-15 10-15

25-30 30-35(40) Medium Landscape

Landscape Landscape Landscape

Genetically compact

Cheerleader WhiteGold

25-35 20-25

35-45 Vigorous Landscape 35-40 Vigorous Landscape

Unique color

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Floranova

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Pillars of hygienic.

...continue with clean condition

Let’s start with clear area...

Keep clean working area on regular base Continue control weeds pests & diseases Disinfection practice (mats antiseptics)

Disinfection treatment

Remember clean hands!

Separate area / greenhouse Gap in production for total cleaning

Clean or disposable instruments & Avoid transit (people, plants, materials)

Control weeds and plants!

Start with new / clean materials.

Avoid transit

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Hygiene is first...

Of course, if you don’t want to see plants like this!

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Aster yellows phytoplasma symptoms

Preparation. “Hygiene is first” #3 Mind a gap (between trays and ground)! • No matter what kind of method you will use, the bottom of the trays shouldn’t touch greenhouse floor.

Small gap…

…or big one

Doesn’t matter it should be

Ground should be covered!

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Disinfection library

List of commercially available chemicals.

Features and surface reactions

Chemical class*

Common Active Ingredients

Sample Trade Names*

Precautions Bactericidal Virucidal Fungicidal Sporicidal

• Slow acting • Affected by pH

• Best at high temps • Corrosive to metals • Severe skin burns; mucous membrane irritation • Environmental hazard • Slow acting • Affected by pH and temperature • Irritation of skin/ mucous membrane • Only use in well ventilated areas • Fast acting • Affected by pH • Frequent application • Inactivated by UV radiation • Corrodes metals, rubber, fabrics, • Mucous membrane irritation • Stable in storage • Affected by pH • Requires frequent application • Corrosive • Stains clothes and treated surfaces • Pungent odor • Noncorrosive • Fast acting • May damage some metals (e.g., lead, copper, brass, zinc) • Powdered form may cause mucous membrane irritation • Low toxicity at lower concentrations • Environmentally friendly • Can leave residual film on surfaces • Can damage rubber, plastic; non-corrosive • Stable in storage • Irritation to skin and eyes

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+

+

+

trisodium phosphate (TSP) 10 % solution

Alkalis

Very caustic

+

+/-

+

+

formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, ortho-phthalaldehyde

Aldehydes

Synergize®

Carcinogenic Toxic gas released if mixed with strong acids or ammonia

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+

+

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sodium hypochlorite (bleach), calcium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide

Halogens: Chlorine

Clorox®, Wysiwash®

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+

+

+/-

Halogens: Iodine

povidone-iodine

hydrogen peroxide/ accelerated HP, peracetic acid, potassium peroxymonosulfate ortho-phenylphenol, orthobenzylpara-chlorophenol

Rescue®, Oxy-Sept 333®, Virkon-S®, ZeroTol®, OxiDate®, SaniDate® One-Stroke Environ®, Pheno- Tek II®, Tek-Trol®, Lysol® Roccal-D®, DiQuat®, D-256®, Physan 20®, Green Shield®, Klean GrowTM

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+

+/-

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Proxygene Compounds

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+

+

-

May be toxic to animals

Phenols

• Stable in storage • Best at neutral or alkaline pH • Effective at high temps

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+

+

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Quaternary Ammonium Compounds

benzalkonium chloride, alkyldimethyl ammonium chloride

• High concentrations corrosive to metals • Irritation to skin, eyes, and respiratory tract

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Be sure in seed quality

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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5 components of success with Tagetes seedlings

Prevent plant stretch

Substrate disinfection

Ca to make your seedlings strong

Like higher pH!

Be careful with Fe / Mn excess

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First success component – clean substrate #1

• Use the cleanest possible substrate for sowing as much as it possible. • Choose most clean components:

Substrate component

Clean score, 1 - 5*

Recommend

perlite

5 5 5 4 4 3 3 1

yes yes yes yes yes

sand

vermiculite cocopeat wood fibers peat moss rise husk natural soil

possible possible

not really recommended

• * 5 is most clean, 1 is less clean

Sanitize substrate, even if you use natural components

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First success component – clean substrate #2

• Most common Tagetes seedling diseases.

Disease

Active ingredients (rate in chemical)

Active Ingredient concentration in solution g/l* 3.2 g/l mancozeb + 0.2 g/l mefenoxam 0.4 g/l azoxystrobin + 0.16 g/l cyproconazole

Use as prophylactic

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

Alternaria

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

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fludioxonil (25 g/l) iprodione (50%)

0.05 g/l 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

Pythium

pyraclostrobin (12.8%) + boscalid (25.2%)

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

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propamocarb (600 g/l) iprodione (50%) azoxystrobin (50%) fludioxonil (125 g/l)

1.8 g/l

1.25 g/l 0.15 g/l

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0.05–0.07 g/l

Rhizoctonia

chlorothalonil (72%) + thiophanate-methyl (18%)

0.75–1,25 g/l chlorothalonil or/and 0.18–0,27 g/l

pentachloronitrobenzene (75%) polyoxin D zinc salt (11.3%)

0.75–1,25 g/l

0.07 g/l

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First success component – clean substrate #3

• You can succeed, even with natural substrate components. • Use antiseptic treatments: - hot water / vapor application (+ 80 0 C), - chemical treatment (KMnO4 – 30―50 mg/l, propamocarb (Previcur), fludioxonil), - biological protection ( Gliocladium catenulaturm , Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus amylolquefaciens, Streptomyces sp. K 61, Streptomyces lydicus strain WYEC 108, Trichoderma harzianum, Trichoderma virens, Trichoderma asperellum, Trichoderma gamsii… )

There are many commercial biological products available on the market

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Second success component – pH higher

• Porous substrate (Up to 20―30% of perlite). • Rinse cocopeat well.

• leavening agent: perlite > vermiculite > zeolite > sand. • Sift the substrate to obtain a uniform particle size 0―5 mm • pH range: 6.1 ―6.5

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2 3 4 5

7 8

• SME: 0.5 mS/cm • Saturate substrate up to level 5 right before sowing. Level 5 SATURATED Level 4 WET Level 3 MEDIUM Level 2 MEDIUM DRY Level 1 DRY

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Sowing / germination stage (0―3(5) days)

• Suggested tray size – 228 (264) cell • Seed – place 1 seed per cell • Do I need to cover the seed?  Yes

 Tagetes seed NO needs light to germinate

• Soil Temp: 22―24 degrees C • pH range: 6.1―6.5 • SME: 0.5―0.75 mS/cm

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Third success component – Fe/Mn toxicity

pH + Ca & Mg Keep pH on rather high level – 6.1―6.5 to avoid Fe/Mn toxicity. Use fertilizers with low phosphorus concentration: 15-5-15 or 15-5-10, or 15-3-10, or 18-5-18. Ca and Mg are antagonists of Fe/Mn

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Fourth success component – Ca/Mg Make your plants strong!

Pay attention Ca and Mg fertigation. NPK fertilizers are poor with Ca and Mg

Apply Ca(NO 3 ) 2 + Mg(NO 3 ) 2 every 3

rd ―5 th watering

week 1

week 4

week 2

week 3

1.7

1.5 1.5 1.5

1.5 1.5 1.5

1.5

1.5

1.3 1.3

1.3

1.3 1.3

1.0 1.0

0.7

Water EC, mS/cm

0.4-0.5

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Fifths success component – avoid stretching #1

• Never apply clean water!!! • Use clean water only for substrate saturation before sowing. • Provide 75 –125 ppm N with every watering. • If you apply Ca+Mg and watering with fertilizers, PGR’s are not necessary.

Seedlings watered with fresh water without fertilizers get stretched

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Fifth success component – avoid stretching #2

• How to transfer 75 –125 ppm of N into gram of fertilizers? • The range of nitrogen recommended in the growing tips is 57 – 125 ppm. • Let’s start with 75 ppm. • 75 ppm means 75 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 g. • Thus, to get 75 mg of nitrogen we need to take: (75 x 100)/15 = 500 mg of fertilizer.

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Again, about Integrated protection…

• The best practice is to prevent infection and confirm phytosanitary condition:  not let the plant lose the turgor,  not overwater plants,  control fungus gnats and, sciarids (dark- winged fungus gnats).  use clean substrate or apply protective chemicals,  control substrate and water temperature,  biological protection methods,  sticky traps and UV traps is the best solution to reduce thrips population.

• If you need to apply any chemicals check phytotoxicity on small group of plants.

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Elements of Integrated protection…

No material storage

Separate greenhouse

Sticky traps

Quarantine

Clean greenhouse

Gap between plant & ground

Covered ground

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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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