Grower

Company: Family Tree Nursery
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

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
        
        
        
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