HRT307 Flower Crop Management (8)
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The subject provides an overview of the floriculture industry from an Australian and world perspective. It focuses on commercial cut flower crops, including a range of native and exotic crops, and provides the students with an understanding of the range of cut flower crops, the industry's origins and history; components of the industry; cut flower crop botany, propagation, establishment, growth and development; requirements for a floriculture enterprise; and management of cut flower crops, including the growing area, propagation, establishment, transplanting; soil management, nutrition, fertilization and irrigation; the influence of environment on plant growth and development; climate and growth manipulation; greenhouse structures and covering materials; manipulation of environment to control production; hydroponic production; flower crop plant protection from pests, diseases and weeds; integrated pest management; pre- and post-harvest handling and care; economics, project evaluation, including enterprise establishment and their financial analysis; marketing of cut flowers; latest technologies; study of specific important cut flower crops, roses, chrysanthemums, carnations, geophytes, foliage plants, orchids. Assignments on specific cut flower crops. |
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| Session 1 | | Distance* | Orange Campus |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HRT307
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences |
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Enrolment restrictions| students who have completed HRT232 cannot enrol into this subject. |
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| Prerequisite(s) |
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| AGR156 or BIO126 or PSC102 |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to accurately describe the range and diversity of cut flower crops
- be able to accurately detail the growth cycle of flower crops within a particular environment
- be able to accurately define the alternative techniques to establish flower crops
- be able to demonstrate how to manage the vegetative and reproductive phases of flower crop growth
- be able to demonstrate how to manage perennial flower bushes effectively
- be able to accurately explain an understanding of the principles of hydroponic systems for growing flower crops
- be able to accurately explain the principles of indoor systems for growing flower crops
- be able to describe how to evaluate plant protection programs for flower crops
- be able to describe the range of specialised equipment used in flower crop production
- be able to accurately define optimal post harvest procedures for flower crops
- be able to accurately assess annual budgets for flower enterprises.
- have a full understanding of the cultivation of a broad range of horticultural crops as specified by the subject coordinator.
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- introduction to floricultural crops and the industry
- flower crop biology
- flower project establishment
- flower crop establishment
- flower crop management temperature, light, water, nutrition, media
- plant growth regulation
- crop protection in floriculture
- protected cultivation, including hydroponic systems
- pre and postharvest handling and care of cut flowers
- marketing of flowers
- cut flower project cashflow, budgets and projects
- important cut flower crops, roses, chrysanthemums, carnations, geophytes, foliage plants, orchids
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Residential School| This subject contains a compulsory 3 day residential school.
Study tour looks at: apiculture; market outlets, including wholesale markets, auctions, retail outlets, florists; protected cultivation; open field cultivation; hydroponic systems for flower growing; plant management systems – pruning, suckering, bending, and other growth manipulation; irrigation, nutrition and media; assessment of flower growing businesses; assessment of flower growing equipment; study of pre- and postharvest systems for cut flowers; harvesting systems; plant protection options for flowers, including IPM systems; visiting a wide range of floricultural crop enterprises to study the broad range of products within a variety of climatic regions; research institutes.
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The information contained in the 2016 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 06 September 2016. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
