Southeast Outdoor Cut Flower Production Manual

This guide has a lot of information on the basics of cut flower production.View Guidechevron_right

Production

These links will take you to more information on basic production

• Chain of Life Floral Care and Marketing
• Field Grown Annuals for Cut Flowers, UMass Extension
• Gerbera Daisies: A Potential Field-produced Cut Flower Crop for Coastal South Carolina, Robert J. Dufault, Tyron Phillips, and John W. Kelly, Purdue University
• Fact Sheets about Crops, UMass Extension
• Sugar and Acidity in Preservative Solutions for Field-grown Cut Flowers, UMass Extension
• Water Quality: Why it is so Important to Florists, Karen L. B. Gast, Kansas State University

Weed, Insect, and Disease Management

These links take you to additional information on managing pests you may encounter during cut flower production:

• Specialty Cut Flowers: A Commercial Growers Guide, Kansas State University
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
• Cut Flowers: Insects and Mites in Commercial Production of Field-Grown Cut Flowers, UMass Extension