Initial Handling Light, Growing Temperature
Sterile Techniques Fertilizer
Growing Media Growth Regulators
Planting/Pinching Hardiness
Watering Pests/Diseases
 
Watch out for slugs, they love that tender foliage! Bait the slugs with a dish of beer, whose rim is at ground level. And, budworms like to eat the flowers. If the leaves or flowers start to disappear, look for these pests and treat.

Aphids can make the plants unsightly and sticky.

Because the commercial stock begins each year as tissue culture plants, plants start virus free and healthy.

 
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