/* Louis W. Adams, Jr.; March 28, 2009 */

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        case "PlantPropagation_11-06-24":
            titleText= "Third Planting Potted Up (June 2011)";        

            captionText[0]= "Lou Adams and Don Crowder (left to right) pot up plants early in June.  Linda McHam also participated. This was the first propagation session of the season. We need the help of a lot more members to make this project feasible!";
            captionText[1]= "Later in June, Charles Covert, Jim Weeks, and Don Crowder (left to right) potted up the remainder of the 371 plants that were rooted last summer. Linda McHam, Kathy McKay, and Henry Pittman were also part of the team.";
            captionText[2]= "Kathy McKay prepares labels so plants are correctly identified.";
            captionText[3]= "These plants are the last to be potted up &mdash; very healthy with strong roots.";
            captionText[4]= "The old trays, which can be re-used along with the soil that was in them, were set aside and covered with roofing material provided by Joe Rives. This solarizes (cooks) the soil and kills any weed seed picked up during the year.";
            captionText[5]= "Henry Pittman, Kathy McKay, and Jim Weeks (left to right) form a production line, with Henry breaking the root bound plugs while Kathy and Jim pot the plugs. This went very quickly.";
            captionText[6]= "Kathy holds a plug from a dwarf Hinoki cypress (<i/>Chamaecyparis obtusa</i> 'Nana Gracilis'). We thought they were hard to root, but the photo shows that you never know. We suspect that bottom heat from the black surface at the nursery provided an extra boost to the rooting process.";
            captionText[7]= "Kathy McKay pots up dwarf English boxwood (<i/>Buxus sempervirens</i> 'suffruticosa'), which also had amazing root systems.";
            captionText[8]= "This is part of the plant stock that we propagated from cuttings. This translates into a portion of our income for the Club. We need a lot more plants, however, to keep the Club financially strong.";
            captionText[9]= "Linda McHam is keeping detailed notes on how well our procedure is working by noting who supplied cuttings, when they were &quot;stuck&quot;, how many were taken, and how many of those survived to be potted up. We are in our third year of this effort, and have a long way to go to get the process streamlined. Everyone who helps with this project is ensuring the future of the club. THANKS! Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_10-11-05":
            titleText= "Second Planting Potted Up (November 2010)";        

            captionText[0]= "New cuttings were planted in the propagation beds for the first time at the Club's new SCC location in July.  Four months later some cuttings are ready to pot for a future plant sale.  Here we see two trays of 'Mrs. G.G. Gerbing' azaleas waiting their turn to be released from trays and placed in new 1 gallon homes.";
            captionText[1]= "Ed Wilde (Club President), Charles Covert, and Don Crowder (left to right) prepare potting media (sand, pine bark, and potting soil) for the rooted cuttings.";
            captionText[2]= "Don Crowder shows a root ball, which is typical for azaleas &quot;stuck&quot; in early July.";
            captionText[3]= "Cuttings have root balls that are fairly easy to extract from the trays and very easy to pot up. We did not lose root pieces this year as we did last year when we had to pull cuttings from a single bed of potting media. Each plant's roots are isolated in a tray pot.";
            captionText[4]= "Ed Wilde uses a dowel to gently push the root ball up from below, while Don Crowder carefully tugs on the stem. We decided that cutting the water off two days ahead of potting might help while extracting rooted cuttings. Water has weight, and water-swollen soil media pushes against pot walls, which impede removal of the plugs. We will keep you posted!";
            captionText[5]= "Don Crowder lifts a tray of buddleia cuttings with enormous roots growing out of the bottom.";
            captionText[6]= "Ed Wilde and Don Crowder are amazed at the root masses on the buddleias.";
            captionText[7]= "Charles Covert (left) helps Ed Wilde extract cuttings of the double file viburnum from a tray.";
            captionText[8]= "Don Crowder does a final count of the new potted cuttings after 2&frac12; hours of work by four Club members: 150 out of a possible 160.  A 94% success rate for rooting cuttings!  The plants are mostly in 2 and 3 gallon containers.  They will spend the rest of the winter and spring putting on good roots for sale in the spring or fall, depending on how fast they grow. The two trays of yellow buddleias had huge root systems and they should be large enough to sell in the spring. The camellias and the viburnum will probably be ready in the fall this year or next year. It is not unusual for plants to take 2 to 3 years to grow large enough to be ready for sale, so having a few plants that are ready ahead of that schedule gives us income sooner.  Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_10-05-10":
            titleText= "First Planting Potted Up (May 2010)";        

            captionText[0]= "Ed Wilde, Will Hawkins, Peggy Romine, and Ben Waddell (left to right) form an assembly line for potting up the cuttings taken during the summer of 2009. The cuttings were moved from the propagation frames to pots so that we could transport them to our new nursery at Spartanburg Community College. This is move is discussed <a href=Albums_SpartanburgCC.html>elsewhere on this website</a>.";
            captionText[1]= "Ben Waddell unloads the potted rooted cuttings, and organizes them.";
            captionText[2]= "Don Crowder checks for any signs of life among the camellias and sasanquas. Unfortunately, none of them survived due to a faulty sprayer nozzle. Members visiting the nursery should check on the condition of all the plants, including those in the propagation frames. Please alert <a href=PlantSales.html>those in charge</a> if you see signs of stress.";
            captionText[3]= "Carole Davis holds up a cutting with a great root system. No matter how many times you see it, it's always exciting to see things grow!";
            captionText[4]= "Ilex 'Burfordii' (Burford holly) really put on good roots during its year in the frame.";
            captionText[5]= "Mac Davis, Lyn Murajda, Ed Wilde, and Lou Adams (left to right) get cuttings ready, pot them, and label them for customers.";
            captionText[6]= "Don Crowder mixes soil and sand (to give the pots weight), and pre-fills pots for those who insert the plants.";
            captionText[7]= "Mac Davis, Lyn Murajda, Ed Wilde, Carole Davis, and Ben Waddell (left to right) take their turns.";
            captionText[8]= "Will Hawkins loads pots into the wagon for a short trip across the nursery where plants are arranged in groups until they are transported to SCC.<br /><br />Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_09-11-21":
            titleText= "First Planting, Cont. (November 2009)";        

            captionText[0]= "At Linda McHam's fourth propagation session, Earl Quillen, Ben Waddell, and Ed Wilde take camellia and sasanqua cuttings for our propagation beds. Peggy Romine and Linda McHam also attended.";
            captionText[1]= "Ben, Earl and Ed disbud the camellias and sasanquas.  They also remove the lower leaves, wound the cutting at the stem base, and dip the wounded stem in rooting hormone (Hormodin 3). Twenty cuttings of each variety are taken to ensure a good success rate.";
            captionText[2]= "Peggy Romine, Ben, Ed, and Earl pause for a photo after cleaning up from the propagation session. Note the propagation beds in the background at the left, against the fence.";
            captionText[3]= "The four beds are now filled with plants. It will take up to two years to have them ready to sell from these cuttings, but this saves the Club a huge amount of money as compared to purchasing two and three gallon plants for mark up. Our cost is in time, since the water that the misting unit uses is less than 500 gallons per year.";
            captionText[4]= "Check out these yellow buddleia cuttings that were planted in July. They are a foot tall and blooming! Notice the success rate for the rest of the cuttings. Pretty impressive!<br /><br />Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_09-08-08":
            titleText= "First Planting, Cont. (August 2009)";        

            captionText[0]= "At Linda McHam's third propagation-by-cuttings session, John Woodward dips the prepared forsythia cuttings in the rooting hormone.  He will shake off the excess. The cuttings are ready for &quot;sticking&quot; into the propagation bed.";
            captionText[1]= "Lyn Murajda sticks the cuttings into the second bed, lining them up with a measuring board. She uses a pencil to make a hole for the cutting so that the rooting hormone (white powder) does not rub off when it is inserted into the hole. The dirt is then firmed around the cutting.";
            captionText[2]= "Linda McHam, Charles Covert, and Jeff Hayes pose with the newly added 400 cuttings (the leftmost cuttings in the photograph). The new additions include fig, gardenia, crape myrtle, juniper, azalea, and osmanthus. Tasso Ghionis, Lyn Murajda, Gisela Otto, Peggy Romine, Shirley Tirpak, and John Woodward also participated in the session. There are now over 800 cuttings in the beds for future Club sales in about a year. There is room in the beds for about 1,600 cuttings.  The plan is to finish filling them by November.<br /><br />Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_09-07-28":
            titleText= "First Planting (July 2009)";        

            captionText[0]= "Linda McHam organized an introductory plant propagation session at Hatcher Garden, and 14 club members attended.  The idea is to train members to propagate the bulk of the plants for future club plant sales.  SMGC recent sales have used &quot;bought-in&quot; plants, so growing our own saves money.";
            captionText[1]= "Tools for propagation.  Clean and sharp pruners for collecting cuttings and trimming them, pencils to make planting holes in soil, and pads to save knees.  The cut end of a stem is coated with hormone powder to promote root growth; it is inserted into a pre-made hole to prevent hormone from being scraped off by soil during insertion.";
            captionText[2]= "Linda explains the plan to volunteers, with the shade-cloth covered propagation bed in the foreground, and a work table in the background.";
            captionText[3]= "Hatcher Garden allowed the demonstration session to take cuttings from their plants along the walking trails.  Here Linda discusses taking cuttings from a vitex shrub, a traditional landscape plant that has medicinal properties.";
            captionText[4]= "Cuttings from four plants were collected for the two hour propagation session: vitex, osmanthus, forsythia, and crape myrtle.  These plants are relatively easy to propagate, and are popular at plant sales.";
            captionText[5]= "Members trim cuttings before planting them.  Present were Lou Adams, Charles Covert, Lorelei Foster, Jeff Hayes, Linda McHam,  Henry Pittman,  Earl Quillen, Chris Rives, Joe Rives, Ben Waddell, Matthew West, Ed Wilde, Nancy Williamson, and John Woodward.";
            captionText[6]= "The propagation bed before planting, with the shade cloth pulled away from one end.  Only a relatively small area of the bed is planted with the day's cuttings, about 95 cuttings. Approximately 1,600 cuttings fill the beds.";
            captionText[7]= "Cuttings are inserted into holes, with soil tamped firmly.  A board across the bed is a guide for planting straight rows.  A programmable irrigation system keeps the soil moist.";
            captionText[8]= "A few leaves are kept on each piece, and cut in half to reduce metabolic demand until roots sprout.  Some leaf area is necessary to produce food from sunlight for growth.  Note the white rooting hormone powder on stem ends.";
            captionText[9]= "After planting, the shade cloth is put back in place and the irrigation system is turned on.  Linda reviews future propagation plans with the troops.  The offensive has just begun, and the next plant sale is less than two months away!  Stay tuned for club announcements about future sessions.";
            captionText[10]= "Sunlight illuminates a patch of planted cuttings beneath the shade cloth.<br /><br />Photos by Lou Adams.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_09-06-16":
            titleText= "Bed Construction (June 2009)";        

            captionText[0]= "Don Crowder, Joe Rives, and Chris Rives (left to right) discuss moving the old propagation beds shown. Steve Patton solarized the beds with red plastic to kill weeds.";
            captionText[1]= "Joe Rives, Chris Rives, Jeff Hall, and Don Crowder (left to right) measure space for new beds adjacent to water and power.";
            captionText[2]= "Matthew West, Bob Reynolds, and Joe Rives (left to right) cover the new propagation beds with a black vinyl sheet to solarize weed seed ('cook' by sunlight).  Not shown are Earl Quillen and Charles Covert, who helped moved the old beds to their new location.";
            captionText[3]= "Bob Reynolds, Matthew West, and Joe Rives (left to right) begin construction of the wood spine for the plastic-ribbed tunnel that will be covered in shade cloth.";
            captionText[4]= "Joe Rives (mostly hidden), Chris Rives, Bob Reynolds, and Matthew West (left to right) finish framing the spine and connecting the water line.";
            captionText[5]= "Bob Reynolds and Matthew West (left to right) add PVC ribs to the frame.";
            captionText[6]= "Joe Rives (left) and Bob Reynolds (right) help Jeff Hall (center), Hatcher Garden horticulturist, connect the water supply.";
            captionText[7]= "Matthew West, Jeff Hall, Joe Rives, Chris Rives, and Bob Reynolds (left to right).";
            captionText[8]= "The completed but uncovered propagation bed. Joe Rives, Matthew West, and Chris Rives (left to right).";
            captionText[9]= "Joe Rives, Jeff Hall, and Bob Reynolds cover the finished frame with shade cloth. The frame is based on a design by Allen Cantrell at Fern Gully Nursery. Thanks Allen!<br /><br />Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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        case "PlantPropagation_08-01-26":
            titleText= "Jess Taylor (January 2008)";        

            captionText[0]= "Jess Taylor (in red cap), long-time member of SMGC and propagator extraordinaire, shows (left to right) Julie Thompson-Adolph, Chris Rives, and Cooper Cecil and his wife, Holly, and two children Katherine and Calum, how to set up a propagation bed for crape myrtles.";
            captionText[1]= "Steve Patton (left) looks on as Jess Taylor reviews his notes for propagating hardwood cuttings.  See our <a href=GardeningHelp.html>Gardening Help</a> page for one of Jess's guides, and other propagation resources.";
            captionText[2]= "Jess describes how to bundle a set of crape myrtle cuttings. He wraps a rubber band around them and places them in a bucket of sand over the winter. Be sure that the growing end is up!";
            captionText[3]= "Jess holds a bundle of crape myrtle cuttings that he has bundled together. The growing end is cut at an angle and the rooting end is a flat cut. The growing end should be pointed up and the rooting end should be pointed down when placed in the bucket of sand.";
            captionText[4]= "Jess shows how he makes an angled cut on the growing end of the hardwood cutting.";
            captionText[5]= "Jess uses Hormodin 3 (a root stimulator powder in the can) on the growing ends of his hardwood cuttings. One bundle has been placed in the bucket of sand. It will sit in the shade over the winter until the buds break and roots form in the spring.";
            captionText[6]= "Volunteers help &quot;stick&quot; the cuttings in the propagation bed. This propagation bed was later moved and reused in a propagation bed that includes a misting unit. The propagation success rate increased dramatically!  See the other Photo Albums on this page.  Photos by Linda McHam.";
            
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