Retail sales areas in greenhouses must be clean, attractive, and orderly. Offering convenience items as gardening tools is a good way to increase sales.
These young stock plants have been pinched to force lateral branching. The stub where the pinch was made can be seen along with the branches that have developed below the pinch. The branches are the source of future harvests of cuttings.
Leaving sufficient nodes on the stems of stock plants after each harvestis essential for the continuous production of healthy cuttings. This fuschia stock has several new cuttings developing below the points where previous cuttings were harvested.