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
PI174000646
Keywords: Family Tree Nursery, Kansas City , Grower, Other , Kansas City, Kansas
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