This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory 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.