Floriculture Test Bank A 236 Questions With Correct Answers
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Floriculture Test Bank A |236 Questions| With Correct Answers.
Soft pinch, hard pinch, cutting back
3-5 years
hot water plant
Kangaroo paw
Capsicum annum L.
Phalaenopsis orchid
West coast; Oregon- California
Vernalization
True- for temperatures maintained within the broad optimum temperatu...
Floriculture Test Bank A |236 Questions| With
Correct Answers.
1). Soft pinch, hard pinch, cutting back
Ans: Growers commonly use three types of pinches:
2). 3-5 years
Ans: New businesses should realize that it usually requires ____ for the business to
show a profit and owners should plan accordingly.
3). Hot water plant
Ans: The common name for an Achimenes hybrid is ___.
4). Kangaroo paw
Ans: The common name for an Angigozanthos (Labill) is ____.
5). Capsicum annum l.
Ans: The Christmas peppers scientific name is ____.
6). Phalaenopsis orchid
Ans: ____ have become important American pot plants in the last ten years because
of their relatively low prices at $15-$30, and the hardness of plant once grown to
flowering size.
7). West coast; oregon- california
Ans: The Lilium longiforum are produced on the ____ around the ____ border.
8). Vernalization
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, Ans: What is the proper term to describe the cold treatment, which lasts several
weeks and precedes initiation of flower buds?
9). True- for temperatures maintained within the broad optimum temperatures range of
50*-85* f (10*-20* c)
Ans: For most floriculture crops, the average daily temperature (ADT) primarily
controls flowering.
10). False
Ans: Scarification is the only method of breaking through hard, water-impermeable
seed coats to allow water to penetrate.
11). True
Ans: One mold can harm your crop by preventing water from penetrating into the mix.
this fungus is found in pine bark storage piles and as a gray thread like structure
(mycelium) that repels water.
12). False
Ans: Potted flowering plants must have sufficient stems, foliage, flowers, and spuds
to provide an attractive display.
13). False
Ans: Cut flowers must have sufficiently short and flexible stems, appropriately sized
flowers, and enough flowers and foliage.
14). Plant species; naturally
Ans: A ____ is defined as having a ____ occuring, unique set of characteristics and is
seperated from other closely related species by location, flowering time and so on.
15). Seeds, soils
Ans: The unique characteristics of a species are usuallt transmitted to the next
generation through___ or ____.
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, 16). 10,50
Ans: Mineral soil is ____ to ____ times heavier than the other components used in
growing media.
17). Ostracoderma
Ans: There are several mood genera that are found in bark. The most problematic is
a(n) ____ slime mold.
18). Molybdenum deficiencies
Ans: _____: symptoms apply to poinsettas, the only greenhouse floral crop it is known
to affect. The margins of leaves halfway up to the stem become chlorotic, presenting a
silhouette appearance and them quickly becomes necrotic.
19). Boron deficiencies
Ans: _____: symptoms can begin as incomplete formation of flower parts such as
fewer petals, small petals, sudden wilting; or collapse of petals, and notches of tissue
missing in flower stems, leaf petioles, or stems.
20). Copper deficiencies
Ans: ____: Young leaves develop interveinal chlorosis, however, the tip and lobes of
these leaves may remain green. Next, the youngest fully expanded leaves rapidly
become necrotic. The sudden death of these leaves resembles desiccation.
21). True- for temperatures maintained within the broad optimum temperatures range of 50° -
85° f. ( 10-20° c)
Ans: For most floriculture crops, the average daily temperature primarily controls
flowering.
22). Adt= (day temperature x hours) + (night temperatures x hours) + 24
Ans: The ADT formula is:
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