Zydeco Zinnia Wins at Cultivate’22

Pelargoniums are sensitive to darkness. Unfortunately, this is also unavoidable, for example during transport or at retail. A prolonged period of time in the dark leads to leaf yellowing and petal drop. To fight this, Chrysal and Syngenta Flowers have combined forces and introduce Largo®, a unique and effective product to prevent leaf yellowing and petal shatter. …

For many years, we have been using bumblebees to pollinate our plants for seed production However, we noticed in the Helleborus seed production greenhouses that the bumblebees were slow compared to other crops and did not do a lot of pollination. This meant we had to add manual pollination to complete the pollination process. …

Robbie Gieslink leads the breeders team of Delta® now for more than 10 years. …