Grower - Full-time

Grower responsibilities may include, but not be limited to:

• Ability to manage staff when working in your area
• Open and closing their area
• Temperature control
• Setting appropriate temperatures

Diff

• Double checking equipment in morning and night and before, especially before inclement weather!
• Adjusting during the day to clouds or sun/temperature fluctuation
• Controlling light-shade clothe/blackout systems/forced lights

Manage fertility tanks

• Mixing, Calibrating, testing and adjusting
• Making fertility decisions
• When to grow/hold
• What type and rate
• pH/alkalinity & sensitivity on specific crops
• Iron efficient or inefficient?

Watering

• 3 watering checks a day
• Decision making- proper timing
• Spotting or water full?
• What is the weather? What time is it?
• Double checking greenhouse assistants (head grower and assistant grower should be training, but growers should be sure the watering is done appropriately)
• You are ultimately responsible for Everything done in your area; Right, or wrong
• Checking roots for salts and disease (E.C.)
• Scouting/Monitoring disease/insects/unsuitable growth
• Spraying/drenching Insecticides/Miticides/Fungicides/PGR's
• Cleanliness of range
• Rolling hoses up, cleaning sidewalks, organizing shelves/flagging material, leftover pots, flats in aisle, etc.
• Sterilizing/disinfecting between crops
• Weed prevention and control
• Grading crop/pulling out dead or runts
• Pulling orders
• In communication with stores about outages or substitutions
• Knowing when things are green, ripe, rotten. Motive is to ship only the ripe material
• Holding or flagging presold material
• Inventory
• Ability to multitask or accomplish many of these tasks simultaneously.
• Take notes in journal and allow production coordinator to file them