Floral Contest Feb 2020

Most fungal diseases grow best in _________________.

• Dry, arid air

• Low moisture conditions

• High moisture conditions

• Seasons with drought

If green plants show a _________________ color, this suggests a nitrogen deficiency.

• White

• Yellow

• Dark green

• Purple

________________________ are chemicals used to control snails and slugs.

• Fungicides

• Rodenticides

• Molluscicides

• Nematocides

In the list of flowers/materials below, which list is not all line flowers:

• Liatris, gladilous, snapdragon, cattail

• Bells of Ireland, carnations, branches, snapdragons

• Liatris, delphinium, gladilous, bells of ireland

• Foxglove, branches, lupine, cattail

A wholesale greenhouse operation has grown 4,250 six inch pots of poinsettias. At the end of the Christmas season, 3,789 pots were sold. The wholesale selling price was $3.85 per pot. The retail businesses sold the pots of poinsettias for $6.89. The cost per pot grown was $2.16 per pot. What was the net return on the poinsettia crop to the greenhouse operation?

• $14,587.65

• $6,403.41

• $5,407.65

• $11,518.56

A manometer is used in a greenhouse to measure:

• Water pressure in an irrigation system line

• Difference between low and high temperature

• Air pressure between layers of plastic

• Gas pressure in a gas heater

A plant with tunicate bulb is a(n) ______________.

• peony

• tulip

• iris

• Easter lily

A florists' wire with a gauge of 18 will be ________ than florists' wire with a gauge of 28.

• shorter

• longer

• thinner

• thicker

What are the organelles that capture and process the light that a plant intercepts?

• mitochondria

• nuclei

• chlorophylls

• chloroplasts

__________ plants are plant material kept specifically for the purpose of propagation.

• Stock

• parent

• cutting

• hardwood