PLHRT 4175
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Classes
PLHRT 4175
Course Description
Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.
Covers basics of establishing a greenhouse operation, growing crops in optimized environments, and serving niche or mass market. Discusses technology basics including structures and equipment, systems for heating and cooling, lighting, irrigating and fertilizing, material handling, environmental stewardship, integrated pest management, and production management. Also covers world centers of greenhouse crop production; culture of cut, pot, bedding, vegetable, and fruit crops in greenhouses, emphasizing predictive harvesting through environmental, physical, and chemical management of growth and development. Each student grows one or more crops.
When Offered Spring.
Fees Field trip fee: approximately $100 for mandatory three-day trip.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: PLSCI 1101 and any PLHRT course.
Course Attribute (CU-SBY)
Comments Offered in odd-numbered years only.
Outcomes- Explain the importance of the major environmental factors that affect plant growth, especially in semi-controlled environments (greenhouses).
- Describe how and why a protected cultivation structure can influence the plant-growing environment.
- Describe environmental manipulations needed to control floral induction, initiation, and development in a variety of plants, and how to apply them to produce commercially acceptable crops.
- Successfully produce a variety of flowering crops within a commercially acceptable time period.
- Develop production costs for a crop or crop sequence.
- Use outside resources to develop and evaluate methods of growing an unknown crop.
- Be conversant in the major greenhouse production and management systems and how they interact to profitably and responsibly produce floral crops.
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: PLHRT 5175
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Green Grnhouse Bldg G 170-KPL
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Miller, W
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Green Grnhouse Bldg G 170-KPL
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Miller, W
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Green Grnhouse Bldg G 170-KPL
- Jan 23 - May 9, 2023
Instructors
Miller, W
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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