Agriculture, Floriculture (2018) ~Part One: 1-25~

A circular design does not have...

Focal Point

Most fungal diseases grow best in...

High Moisture Conditions

Mums are considered a short-day crop; that is, the plant sets flower buds and blooms only when...

Nights Are Long And Days Are Short

During respiration, plants...

Use Oxygen

If green plants show a ... color, this suggests a nitrogen deficiency.

Purple

...exists when the terminal bud produces hormones that inhibit or prevent the growth of axillary buds on the same shoot.

Apical Dominance

Floral foam is sufficiently soaked when...

Air Bubbles Are No Longer Coming Out Of The Foam

...seeding is when seeds are sown in a separate place from where the plants will eventually grow to maturity.

Indirect

...is used to accentuate the flowers and colors used in a design.

Repetition

...are chemicals used to control snails and slugs.

Molluscicides

Small green insects with piercing mouth parts are...

Aphids

The recommended daytime temperature range for indoor plants is...

50-85� F

...is one of the basic floral design shapes.

Circular

In the list of flowers/materials below, which list is NOT all line flowers:

Bells Of Ireland, Carnations, Branches, Snapdragons

Joe placed a box of apples in his flower cooler. The next day he saw some cut flowers looking bad and deteriorating.
Could the apples have caused this problem?

Yes, Fruit Produces Ethylene Gas Which Can Cause Flowers To Senesce

Floral foam should be hydrated before use in a flower arrangement.
Which of these methods is the best for accomplishing the soaking of the foam?

The Foam Is Allowed To Float On The Surface Until It Is Soaked

A wholesale greenhouse operation has grown 4,250 six inch pots of poinsettias. At the end of the Christmas season, 3,789 pots were sold. The wholesale selling price was $3.85 per pot. The retail businesses sold the pots of poinsettias for $6.89. The cost

$5,407.65

You work for a retail flower shop in Bloomington, Indiana. You are figuring a bill for a customer. In Bloomington the state sales tax is 5%, the city sales tax is 0.5%, and the county sales tax is 1%. The cost of the arrangement for the customer is $72.45

$77.16

The wire services that a retail flower shop can use are:

FTD, Teleflora, Florafax, American Foral Services, And Carik

In growing potted chrysanthemums, the desirable temperature range for flower bud initiation is:

62 To 65 Degrees F At Night

As a grower you want to use "soft" pesticides for plant pest control.
Which group below includes "soft" pesticides?

Insect Growth Regulators, Botanical Insecticides, Horticultural Oils

The place in the plant where the process of photosynthesis occurs is:

In Green Chloroplasts Within Cells

A solenoid value is used in greenhouse:

As An Electrical Device Used To Control The Flow Of Water In Greenhouses

A manometer is used in a greenhouse to measure:

Air Pressure Between Layers Of Plastic

In horiculture, the term "explant" is:

Small Pieces Of Plant Material Used In Tissue Culture