{"id":45400,"date":"2024-12-13T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=45400"},"modified":"2024-12-13T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:38:15","slug":"poinsettia-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/poinsettia-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Ag Experts Help Protect NY\u2019s Poinsettia Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">A CALS-affiliated research and extension center supports small businesses cultivating the quintessential holiday ornamental<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: This story was adapted from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2024\/12\/cornell-helps-nys-growers-hone-art-and-science-poinsettias\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>a feature<\/em><\/a><em> in the<\/em> Cornell Chronicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Caitlin Hayes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Last summer, Mark Van Bourgondien, co-owner of CJ Van Bourgondien Wholesale Greenhouses on Long Island, noticed white flecks and slight discoloration on a few of his young poinsettias. He quickly found the culprit: tiny white Lewis mites, which he and others in the industry had dealt with before. But this time, the usual control, a miticide, didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Bourgondien called Cornell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cals.cornell.edu\/agricultural-experiment-station\/research-farms\/long-island-horticultural-research-and-extension-center-lihrec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center<\/a> (LIHREC)\u2014his go-to when problems arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan Gilrein, MPS \u201982, associate agriculture program director and entomology specialist for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County, collected samples from Van Bourgondien and others in the region facing the same problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back at LIHREC\u2019s greenhouse, he confirmed the mites\u2019 resistance and found an alternative treatment that could address the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Integrated Pest Management's Elise Lobdell inspects a poinsettia.\" class=\"wp-image-45374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-1264x711.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/image001-A.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Integrated Pest Management&#8217;s Elise Lobdell inspects a poinsettia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to manage it with Dan\u2019s help,\u201d says Van Bourgondien, whose family has been in the greenhouse business since 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis mites are just one of many potential threats and challenges to growing poinsettias, the colorful ornamental plant that is ubiquitous in holiday displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plants require careful calibration of the greenhouse environment\u2014low humidity with moderate temperatures\u2014and are susceptible to multiple types of root rot, poinsettia mosaic virus, foliar fungal diseases called poinsettia scab, powdery mildew and botrytis blight, bacterial leaf spots, and infestations of different species of white flies and mites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>The plants require careful calibration of the greenhouse environment\u2014low humidity with moderate temperatures.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these threats are introduced from cuttings shipped from overseas and show up at various stages of a long season, with ample time for problems to arise; growers plant in early summer and need the crop in peak condition for an extremely narrow window of sales in late November and early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a real art to growing poinsettias, and the people who are doing it have often been doing it for generations,\u201d says Margery Daughtrey, PhD \u201923, senior extension associate and plant pathologist in the School of Integrative Plant Science in CALS. \u201cThey really care about the crop and do everything they can to protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There\u2019s a real art to growing poinsettias, and the people who are doing it have often been doing it for generations. They really care about the crop and do everything they can to protect it.<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Margery Daughtrey, PhD \u201923<\/strong>, senior extension associate and CALS plant pathologist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Profit margins for poinsettias are thin, and their production in New York has declined over the last three decades. But growing poinsettias provides year-round work for the 120 to 130 full-time employees of Emma\u2019s Garden Growers, a Long Island plant wholesaler, and allows the business to maintain a connection to its customers, as well as boosting income going into the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of people depend on this business\u2014they want to be employed year-round\u2014so that means: poinsettias,\u201d says co-owner (and father of three Cornell alums) Eric Keil, whose family has been in the horticulture business on Long Island for four generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A \u201cCandy Cane\u201d poinsettia\" class=\"wp-image-45373 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-632x790.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-316x395.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-70x87.jpg 70w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/IMG_7188-A.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><figcaption>A Candy Cane poinsettia.<\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>\u201cThe services at LIHREC are absolutely essential to our industry; I don\u2019t know how growers in other states really get by without this kind of support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When further investigation is needed, the LIHREC team collaborates with <a href=\"https:\/\/cals.cornell.edu\/new-york-state-integrated-pest-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York State Integrated Pest Management<\/a> in CALS and researchers on Ithaca\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the case of this season\u2019s Lewis mites, Gilrein is continuing work with on-campus partners to understand the underlying mechanism of the mites\u2019 resistance, how it could affect future seasons and other crops, and what optimal controls could be used.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe feel there are some newer controls that we haven\u2019t tried,\u201d Gilrein says, \u201cso we\u2019re engaged in seeing how those perform and whether or not a biological control could work or could make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solving a problem\u2014or finding a culprit and ways to outwit it\u2014is satisfying, Daughtrey says. And the stunning beauty of the poinsettia crop can also be its own reward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the plants are in the greenhouse, and they\u2019re lined up perfectly in their rows, all the same height and in full bloom, with all variations from white to peppermint to deep red\u2014it\u2019s just awfully beautiful,\u201d Daughtrey says. \u201cEspecially on a snowy day, to walk in and see all that color; it\u2019s marvelous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(All photos provided.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Published December 13, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CALS-affiliated research and extension center supports small businesses cultivating the quintessential holiday ornamental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":45372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alumni_hub_syml_posts":[40932,21596,42499],"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"cornell_year_post":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-45400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-beyond"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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