Blog - Entries for 2025 (41)

Nov 21, 2025

Water Quality Deep Dive – Understanding Alkalinity

Do you know how to interpret your water quality tests? This week, let’s start with a deeper understanding of alkalinity. PROBLEM: When you send water samples off for testing and results come back, you need to know....

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Nov 19, 2025

Ball for Fall 2025: A Ball Seed Event

Jessie McMillin

Need to Know Uniform bloom timing: Families bred for synchronized flowering, reducing labor and simplifying scheduling. Expanded color palettes: Rich oranges, deep purples, and fresh two-toned colors that align....

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Nov 14, 2025

Fungus Gnat G'nonsense

Technical Services

Nick Flax is following up last week’s Grower Tip on Rhizoctonia with another poinsettia tip — this time the challenge is fungus gnats. PROBLEM: When a beautiful poinsettia crop is ready to ship or move to r....

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Nov 10, 2025

Now Available: 2026 Selecta One® Poinsettias Catalog

Your Ball Seed Team

The new 50-page catalog from Selecta One features the latest Poinsettia varieties for 2026. See three new introductions to help make your program merry and bright: 1. Christmas Royale offers a new dark red color....

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Nov 7, 2025

Disease Pressure On The Rhiz

Technical Services

There are some interesting poinsettia symptoms showing up lately. Here’s why they required a closer look from out pathologists to avoid misdiagnosis of the causal pathogen. PROBLEM: Over the last couple of weeks,....

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