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7/21/2014 UK Narcissus Growers Audit Survey

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UK Narcissus Growers Audit

1. Business Name:

2. Are you a grower or a cooperative?

3. In which county, or counties do you have growing sites? Please count Cornwall

and Isles of Scilly as different counties.

4. Over what area do you grow daffodils? This may be in hectares, acres, square

metres, square feet etc.

5. Does your company provide (tick all that apply):

6. Comments

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Grower

Cooperative

Other (please specify)

Cut flowers

Bulbs





7. For my experiments, I will need to use a selection of varieties that are relevant to

the current industry. If you are a FLOWER grower, please choose up to 10 varieties

that are your most productive or best sellers. Please try to include one early, middle

and late variety.

8. Do you harvest flowers in the first year after hot water treatment?

9. Comments

Avalanche

Barenwyn

California

Carlton

Cheerfulness

Counsellor

Crewenna

Dellan

Dutch Master

Emblyn

Erlicheer

Golden Dawn

Golden Ducat

Golden Harvest

Grand Monarque

Grand Primo

Grand Soleil d'Or

Hollywood

Hugh Town

Ice Follies

Innisidgen

Jedna

King Alfred

Lothario

Loveday

Malvern City

Mando

Martinette

Paperwhite

Rijnveld's Early Sensation

Royal Connection

Scilly Valentine

Sempre Avanti

Silver Chimes

Sir Winston Churchill

St Keverne

Standard Value

Tamara

Trousseau

Ultimus

White Lion

White Pearl

Yellow Cheerfulness

Other(s) (please specify)

Yes

No

Sometimes / It depends




10. For my experiments, I will need to use a selection of varieties that are relevant tothe current industry. If you are a BULB grower, please choose up to 10 varieties thatare your best sellers.

11. Comments

Actaea

Apotheose

Avalanche

Barenwyn

Barrett Browning

California

Carlton

Cheerfulness

Counsellor

Crewenna

Dellan

Dutch Master

Emblyn

Erlicheer

Fortune

Geranium

Golden Dawn

Golden Ducat

Golden Harvest

Grand Monarque

Grand Primo

Grand Soleil d'Or

Hollywood

Hugh Town

Ice Follies

Innisidgen

Jedna

King Alfred

Lothario

Loveday

Malvern City

Mando

Martinette

Mount Hood

Orangery

Paper White

Pink Pride

Recurvus

Red Devon

Rijnveld's Early Sensation

Rip Van Winkle

Royal Connection

Salome

Scilly Valentine

Sempre Avanti

Sealing Wax

Silver Chimes

Sir Winston Churchill

Spellbinder

St Keverne

Standard Value

Tamara

Thalia Tahiti

Trousseau

Ultimus

White Lion

White Pearl

Yellow Cheerfulness





12. Please give an outline of your growing year by giving rough dates (e.g. ‘EarlyMarch to mid-April’) for when you perform the following tasks, where applicable:

Earliest field

flower picking:

Peak field flower

picking:

Treatments for

weeds (burning,

spraying):

Defoliation:

Lifting bulbs:

Drying bulbs:

Cleaning bulbs:

Grading Bulbs:

Packaging for

sale or export:

Hot water

treatment

(sterilising):

Drying after hot

water treatment:

Replanting:

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14. How do you dry and store bulbs AFTER LIFTING?

15. Comments

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Bulk bins

Drying floor

Not applicable







16. At what temperature, if different from ambient, do you dry bulbs after lifting?

17. Comments

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Ambient

Not applicable







18. As standard, do you pre-warm (or ‘partially pre-warm’) bulbs before hot watertreatment?

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Yes

No

Not applicable







19. Please state the temperature and time (or range of temperatures and times)employed for pre-warming.

20. Do you also pre-soak bulbs to aid nematode control?

21. Comments

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Yes

No







22. What system(s) do you use for hot water treatment?

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Top loading ('dunking')

Front loading ('drive-in')

Not applicable







23. What quantity of bulbs can be treated at one time in a single tank? (e.g. 4 bins of

800kg OR 1.6-1.8 tonnes OR 2 bins at a time in a tank that can hold 8 etc.)

24. What is your maximum capacity for treating bulbs? (e.g. 20 bins OR 4 tanks,

each holding 2 bins OR 12.2 tonnes etc.)

25. Comments

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26. What temperature do you employ for hot water treatment?

27. Which chemicals do you use in hot water treatment? (fungicides, wettingagents, nematicide etc.) Give (brand) names where possible.

28. Comments

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44.4˚C

46˚C

47˚C







29. After hot water treatment, how do you dry bulbs?

30. Comments

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Bulk bins

Drying floor

Not applicable







31. At what temperature, and for how long do you typically dry them? (e.g. 30˚C for4-5 days, then 20˚C for 2 weeks.)

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32. Which grades of bulb do you sell and which do you replant? Tick all that apply.<8cm 8-10cm 10-12cm 12-14cm 14-16cm >16cm

Sell

Replant

Destroy/discard

33. At what depth, or range of depths, do you plant daffodil bulbs? This may bespecific measurements or the setting used on a bulb planter etc.

34. At what density do you plant bulbs? (tonnes per acre, tonnes per hectare, bulbsper square foot etc.)

35. Comments

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Or give other size brackets here:






36. Please give brand names or NPK values for the fertiliser(s) you normally apply:

37. Please give an estimate of the typical annual application rate (with time of

application where possible e.g. early March).

38. Have you ever, or do you regularly conduct soil analysis for NPK levels?

39. Comments

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Yes - once or occasionally

Yes - regularly

No






40. Do you do any protected growing, including forcing? (Glasshouses,polytunnels etc.)

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No

Yes (please specify)






41. Which of your costs would you most like to see reduced? Select no more than

3:

42. One objective of the PhD is to modify existing machines or develop new ones to

solve problems faced by Narcissus growers. What piece(s) of machinery would you

most like to see or what problems most need solving? Some suggestions are made

below, but you can suggest anything:

43. Do you have any final advice or suggestions for what I should be investigating

for the benefit of the growers?

Energy costs

Manual labour (bulb handling and cleaning)

Land needed

Fertiliser requirements

Chemicals used (pesticides, fungicides etc.)

Losses to pests and diseases (specify main problems below)

Losses to irregular planting (jams, uneven bulb distribution etc.)


Electronic screening of bulbs for pests and diseases

Precision application of fertilisers

More efficient drying methods to reduce energy usage and spoilage in storage

Precision planting machines – to ensure even bulb distribution

Bulb planting machines to plant bulbs upright in ridges

Protected growing in polytunnels

Better information about growing under mulches e.g. straw, polythene, fleece etc.


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