Learning Outcomes
Participants will acquire the expertise to cultivate, manage, and produce high-quality cut roses, improving yields and ensuring sustainable, efficient operations.
Key Topics
- Rose Plant and Cultivation: Understand rose plant biology and cultivation techniques for optimal growth.
- Substrate and Soil Preparation: Learn substrate preparation, planting actions, and step-by-step soil preparation, including post-planting care.
- Harvesting and Grooming: Master harvesting and grooming techniques for healthy, high-quality roses.
- Growth Management: Use pinches to stagger growth, boost production, and manage the canopy.
- Pruning and Sorting: Apply pruning and sorting techniques to ensure premium cut roses.
- Abnormal Growth: Identify and address abnormal growth to maintain plant health.
- Nutrition and Fertigation: Explore rose nutrition, fertilizer application, and fertigation programs, with advanced nutrition insights.
- Pests and Diseases: Manage major rose pests and diseases, including spray equipment use, pH in chemical tanks, and safe chemical mixing.
- Safety and Sanitation: Implement poison storage, protective clothing, and sanitation in cooling/sorting rooms, with pesticide application records.
- Basic Spray Program: Apply a foundational spray program for effective pest and disease control.
- Propagation and Stents: Master rose propagation using stents.
- Irrigation: Optimize irrigation strategies for cut rose production.
- Post-Harvest Treatment: Learn post-harvest techniques to ensure rose quality and longevity.
- Project Setup: Gain guidance on establishing a successful rose production project.
Online
Format
6 weeks
Duration
R 2,750
Price
How does it work?
Upon receipt of payment, Florcom will reach out to students via email to provide registration details for the e-learning platform.
Students have the freedom to progress through the course at their own pace but the cut of date after commencing is four months.To assess their understanding, students will be required to complete a combination of quizzes and practical assignments. It’s important to complete all these tests to be eligible for a certificate of completion.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be eligible to receive one of the following certificates based on their grading:
Advanced Level:
- Course grade between 85% and 100%.
- Intermediate Level: Course grade between 70% and 85%.
- Beginners Level: Course grade between 55% and 70%.
- Attendance Certificate: Course grade below 55%
