OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY HORT 3113: GREENHOUSE MANAGEMENT FALL 2008 INSTRUCTOR: Tim R. Hooper Teaching Greenhouse 744-6452 Work 612-0125 Cell E-mail: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: An open door policy is maintained; however, appointments may be made if preferred. TECHNICAL SUPPORT: IT Help Desk 405-744-4357 OSU’s Online Classroom ( https://oc.okstate.edu/ ) TEXT (required) Floriculture: Principles and Species, 2nd Edition, by Dole and Wilkins. (optional) Greenhouse Operation & Management, 6th Edition, by Paul V. Nelson (provided) The Ecke Poinsettia Manual. REFERENCES: Greenhouse Product News — The Business Magazine for Commercial Growers, Scranton Gillette Communications Publications (http://www.gpnmag.com) Horticulture Extension Fact Sheets and Current Reports, available on the WWW from the HORT 3113 Online Classroom course website. PREREQUISITES: BOT 1404 — Plant Biology, HORT 1013 — Principles of Horticultural Science, and MATH 1483 — Math Functions or higher. OBJECTIVES: —to learn to formulate and knowledgably discuss one’s thoughts with respect to problem solving as a member of a team —to address crop production as a cooperative production-management team —to develop skills essential for management of controlled environments and the crops which they are used to produce FORMAT: Discussion and problem solving units,will be inserted which will be discussed during the “theory” portion of the course. See the HORT 3113 website for links to many on-line resources. The OSU Edmon Low Library is an excellent location for printed resources. PRODUCTION-MANAGEMENT TEAMS — The lab portions of the class will consist of project education (PE) themes of practical experiences and horticultural crop production, designed to reinforce the PBL thematic units and to prepare each student for working in a greenhouse as a member of a production-management team. Labs will meet in the headhouse of the Teaching Greenhouses on Farm Road (south side of the Colvin Center). EXPECTATIONS: Participation in all scheduled class activities is expected. Absenteeism and/or non-participation not only preclude a student’s learning the material in this course, but also will adversely affect his/her grade. Each student is expected to take responsibility and initiative to be an active, collaborative learner and a contributing member of his/her P-M Team. A missed quiz or exam may be taken prior to the date scheduled; however, a 25% penalty will apply, reducing the student’s score by 25%. In the case of other required academic activity, a quiz or exam may be taken at full value prior to the scheduled date as shown on the course schedule. Arrangements for taking a quiz or exam in advance must be made in person with at least one week prior to the class’s scheduled date as shown in the course schedule, and a letter from the advisor or professor of the conflicting activity must be presented at that time. No quiz or exam may be taken after the scheduled date. This situation will result in a score of zero.-2- GRADING: QUIZZES & EXAMS — Quizzes and exams will primarily consist of problem solving, short answer essays, fill-in the blank, multiple choice, matching, true/false, etc. Quizzes will be taken in Ag. Hall 306 during the first or last 15 minutes of the theory period and exams will be given during the theory period of the course, and each student will be expected to express his/her knowledge of the course’s content and his/her ability to solve greenhouse management problems. The Final Exam is cumulative, i.e. all course information will be covered. GREENHOUSE MANAGER’S LOG — Depending on enrollment in the course, students will sign-up for seven days’ monitoring and recording of current and forecasted weather conditions, greenhouse environment, equipment status, etc. Data must be collected, presented to me at the Teaching Greenhouse, and recorded in the “Greenhouse Manager’s Log” database each weekday before 10:00 AM. Use your O-Key username and the password “cowboys” to access the database the first time. You will be prompted to change the password to your O-Key password at the first log-in. Failure to enter the data by the deadline will result in zero points for that day. FIELD TRIP TOUR OPTION – DURING ONE LAB A SHORT FIELD TRIP MAYBE OFFERED. P-M TEAM’S ORAL PRODUCTION REPORTS — Each P-M Team will select a member to serve as “head grower” each week. It will be that person’s responsibility to present an oral crop production report for his/her week, during which the FloraTrack data will be discussed along with the weekly pH and EC media testing, and management decisions defended. Reports will be made during labs as indicated on the “Course Schedule.” P-M TEAM’S PRODUCTION OF POINSETTIA CROP — Students will be evaluated throughout the semester with respect to their attitude and care toward their crop’s production. All crops will be checked by Tim Hooper at 10 AM and, again, at 3 PM daily. If a crop is found to be water stressed (too wet or too dry), 10 points per occurrence will be deducted from the responsible student’s final crop evaluation for the neglected crop. If a student fails to check on watering status of his/hers team crops for their assigned day, 50 points will be taken off Production of Poinsettia Crop total points. Final evaluation of the crops will be by Tim on the market date specified for the crop. Evaluation will be based on symmetry, proportion, and abundance of flowers on each specimen, uniformity of the plants composing a specimen as well as uniformity among the specimens, and freedom from diseases, pests, and nutritional/environmental disorders. (See Poinsettia Crop Evaluation Rubric on the course’s Online Classroom site.) Crops missing the specified market date by maturing too early or too late will be discounted severely. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: Oklahoma State University is committed to the maintenance of the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct of its members. This level of ethical behavior and integrity will be maintained in this course. Participating in a behavior that violates academic integrity (e.g., unauthorized collaboration on homework or assignments, plagiarism, multiple submissions of the same assignment, cheating on examinations, fabricating information, helping another person cheat, having unauthorized advance access to examinations, altering or destroying the