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The road to better performance starts at the AmericanHort Plug & Cutting Conference . As the premier event for young plant producers and growers from across the country, this conference is the place to learn the newest and best strategies, technologies, and techniques in the world of plugs and cuttings.
Join expert speakers to dive deep on topics like best management practices, production inputs, disease & insects, greenhouse grown hemp, and grower basics.
Take a trip to Tagawa Greenhouse for one of two hands-on workshops. Explore everything you need to know about the advanced use of biocontrols, or perfect your skills as a grower to prepare to train your own team.
We’re taking learning outside of the classroom and getting up-close and personal with companies who are changing the growing game.
The trade show is your opportunity to meet the businesses that can help you solve even your hardest plug and cutting questions and set you up for success.
The Plug & Cutting Conference is a unique educational experience that focuses on best practices in young plant production that highlights cutting edge research, a hands-on workshop, and a tour that immerses attendees into the world of cutting-edge technology and growing practices. The AmericanHort Plug & Cutting Conference has been recognized as the leading educational opportunity for advancing and experience growers. You will not want to miss it!
Plug & Cutting Conference 2022 Registration includes access to all education sessions, trade show, networking events, breakfast, and lunch.
Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events
Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events
Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events
Plug & Cutting Conference Registration includes access to all education sessions, trade show, networking events, breakfast, and lunch.
Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events
Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events
Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events
Thank You to our Tour Sponsors: Berger & BioTherm
Stops include Welby Gardens, Blooma Farms, Tagawa Greenhouse, and Botany Lane
Thank You to our Biocontrols Workshop Sponsor: Koppert
During this half-day program, industry leaders will also share practical tools in training your new grower teams to ensure a smoother training program back home in your operations.
The Plug & Cutting Conference has been recognized for years as the leading educational opportunity for advancing and experienced growers. With extremely relevant, in-depth education on a variety of topics relating to plug and cutting production, growers are sure to come away with a fresh arsenal of best practices and ideas to keep your facilities running both smoothly and profitably. Join expert speakers and industry-leading growers to dive deep on topics like best management practices, production inputs, training your grower teams, risk management, greenhouse grown hemp, and more. Learn from renowned experts on these topics and how they can relate to your operation.
Plug & Cutting Conference takes a peer-based approach to learning, encouraging attendees to collaborate with speakers to take key takeaways to the next level, and grower-lead panels bring best practices to real-life situations.
Costs for supplies and production inputs continue to rise. Learning how to optimize these factors can save time, money, and resources. Sit down with industry peers to understand the necessary inputs for growing effectively that may help you grow better plants while using less.
Over the last few years, we have become familiar with the concept of risk in our businesses. This series of education sessions will focus on the business aspects of your operation, including pricing best practices, insurance program updates, shipping logistics, quality control, and more.
Costs for supplies and production inputs continue to rise. Learning how to optimize these factors can save time, money, and resources. Sit down with industry peers to understand the necessary inputs for growing effectively that may help you grow better plants while using less.
Over the last few years, we have become familiar with the concept of risk in our businesses. This series of education sessions will focus on the business aspects of your operation, including pricing best practices, insurance program updates, shipping logistics, quality control, and more.
Take a comprehensive look into planning for a variety of D.I.G. related topics, such as biocontrols, IPM, and disease management. You’ll also get updates on key industry challenges, such as the newly emerging Chili Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (CPMMoV) disease on calibrachoa.
Whether you are new to the business or an experienced grower, this series of educational sessions provides practical skill sets for growing effectively. We’ll go in-depth on vital skills for growers with research-based information that you can use to develop your own skills or prepare to train your team.
Take a comprehensive look into planning for a variety of D.I.G. related topics, such as biocontrols, IPM, and disease management. You’ll also get updates on key industry challenges, such as the newly emerging Chili Pepper Mild Mottle Virus (CPMMoV) disease on calibrachoa.
Whether you are new to the business or an experienced grower, this series of educational sessions provides practical skill sets for growing effectively. We’ll go in-depth on vital skills for growers with research-based information that you can use to develop your own skills or prepare to train your team.
Thank You to our Tour Sponsors: Berger & BioTherm
We’re taking learning outside of the classroom and getting up-close and personal with companies who are leading the growing game. At Plug & Cutting 2022, we are visiting four Colorado greenhouses – Botany Lane Greenhouse, Brown’s Greenhouse, Tagawa Greenhouse, Welby Gardens – to help you learn industry best practices for young plant production.
Botany Lane Greenhouse is a locally owned and operated wholesale grower of top-quality premium plants and flowers with three facilities, two in Texas, and one in Colorado. With more than 100 employees, Botany Lane is a top 100 grower in the United States and has a total of 835,000 square feet of environmentally controlled growing across all facilities. The Colorado facilities are where most propagation work takes place as they grow and propagate plants in liners and finished sizes, including annuals, perennials, succulents, herbs & veggies, and tropical flowering and foliage. Botany Lane focuses on supplying Independent Garden Centers and prides themselves on focusing on unique plants to accentuate their “boutique” approach to plant offerings.
Botany Lane is a certified sustainable greenhouse through the Veriflora® program and meets the highest levels of performance under three recognized pillars of sustainability: environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and economic stability. Visit their 300,000 square foot facility in Denver and learn how they have streamlined production for greater efficiency while maintaining healthy, safe, and fair working conditions, protecting soil and water resources, demonstrating responsible agrochemical use, energy efficiency, climate impact reduction, ecosystem protection, product quality and community engagement. During the tour you will see propagation of tropical flowering plants, foliage plants and stock production.
Blooma Farms, formerly known as Brown’s Greenhouse, is a premier wholesale grower of annuals, perennials, and vegetables offering innovative varieties that draw customers back year after year. Blooma Farms was established more than 30 years ago and produces crops in five locations. The Blooma Farms team strives to grow exceptional and hardy plants and to stay ahead of garden “trends”. On the tour you will learn more about their new line of business using the Ball Webtrack® system for young plant sales, under Blooma Farm’s sister company Rocky Mountain Liners. Brown’s/Blooma takes pride in servicing independent retailers
throughout the front range and Rocky Mountain Corridor, and it places great importance on customer relationships, providing excellent customer service. They are one of the few growers who still offer 50 cell trays, and the team continually seeks to find unique niche plants to create excitement in the garden. With a commitment to urban gardening, another sister company, Plum Creek Garden Market opens seasonal pop-up retail operations around the Denver metro area, including Boulder, to reach more customers. During this tour stop you will visit Blooma’s latest expansion featuring a greenhouse with an automated pulley system to improve order picking operations.
Tagawa Greenhouses is proud to be one of the largest greenhouse operations in North America, growing more than two million square feet of plants at any given time, and is known to be a top plant producer. They originated as a carnation greenhouse and later expanded into growing bedding plants and roses, and then blooming plants, poinsettias, and young plant production. Their InColor Retail-Ready plants can be found in big box garden centers, like Costco and Home Depot, and grocery chains like Safeway throughout Colorado and the surrounding region. Tagawa offers multiple tray sizes of 50, 102 and 200, to name a few. Their PowerStarts™ program uses the top breeders in the industry
and is known for producing consistent quality. They place a strong focus on efficiency and work to maximize space for better freight rates and take considerable pride in their extensive truck delivery network to service all North America. During the tour you will visit stations focused on seeding, collation, and pansy plug production.
Welby Gardens is a fourth-generation family-owned greenhouse and garden retail operation, and the exclusive grower of Hardy Boy Plants. With ten acres of greenhouse and 2.5 acres of hoop houses, Welby Gardens offers annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, and organic herbs & vegetables. Their plants are sold to independent garden centers and landscapers with a focus on the high-end market. On the tour you will learn about their proprietary 4-pack tray program that is color coded based on pricing, their approach to managing seasonality and product mix, the changes they have experienced in recent years to improve efficiency and their bottom line, and their 20-year expertise in growing young plants. Learn how Welby Gardens developed a hexagon pot
to improve shipping efficiencies and about their cross-dock partnership program with Tagawa Greenhouse. You will see their shipping in action and their transplanter equipment in operation.
Thank You to our Biocontrols Workshop Sponsor: Koppert
To be successful, greenhouse growers wear many hats every day. This hands-on workshop will cover practical skills essential to being an effective grower. Attendees will learn best practices and through hand-on activities be able to perfect skills crucial to growing a healthy young plant crop. This is an ideal opportunity to learn from industry experts as participants can ask in-depth questions and practice, refine and perfect skills in these important growing functions such as water, soils, pesticides, and sanitation. This four-hour workshop is packed with a wealth of knowledge and expertise to help your team become more confident growers.
Already a confident grower and looking to find tools to prepare and train your team? During this program, industry leaders will also share practical tools in training your new grower teams to ensure a smoother training program back home in your operations. After the workshop, be sure to check out the Back2Basics education sessions being held during the Plug & Cutting Conference presented by this workshop’s trainers where they will dive deeper into best management and growing practices for young plant production.
3:00 – 5:00 PM – Registration Open
6:30 AM – 4:00 PM – Registration Open
7:00 AM – 6:30 PM – Experiential Greenhouse Production Tour
7:00 AM – 2:00 PM – Everything You Need to Know About BioControls Workshop
11:00 AM – 6:30 PM – Back2Basics Workshop: Practical Skills for Growers
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Exhibitor Move-In
7:30 AM – 3:30 PM – Registration Open
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Trade Show Open
9:00 AM -11:45 AM – Education Sessions
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Networking Break on Trade Show Floor
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Lunch with Exhibitors
12:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Education Sessions
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM – Networking Break on Trade Show Floor
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Exhibitor Reception
7:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Registration Open
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:00 AM – 1:00 PM – Trade Show Open
9:00 AM -12:00 PM – Education Sessions
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM – Networking Break on Trade Show Floor
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM – Lunch with Exhibitors
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Education Sessions
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM – Exhibitor Tear-Down
Below is a list of hotels that are close to the Plug & Cutting Conference venue.
The Westminster Promenade is across the street from the hotel and offers a variety of restaurants and entertainment venues, including a 24-screen movie theater, a state-of-the-art bowling center, and a world-renowned insect zoo!
Below is a list of hotels that are close to the Plug & Cutting Conference venue.
The Westminster Promenade is across the street from the hotel and offers a variety of restaurants and entertainment venues, including a 24-screen movie theater, a state-of-the-art bowling center, and a world-renowned insect zoo!
Plug & Cutting Conference is a unique conference that offers a renowned education lineup combined with a world-class tour and a hands-on workshop — making this the conference your company needs to be at.
Grow your network. Grow your customer base. Grow your company. The Plug & Cutting Conference is your opportunity to gain exposure to hundreds of growers from across the nation.
Connect with both current and potential customers beyond your exhibit space with sponsorship opportunities at Plug & Cutting Conference. Solidify your company brand and products during and after the event.
Give us a call to discuss sponsorship options that creatively focus on your product or service!
Contact Cindy Lee at CindyL@AmericanHort.org or (614) 884-1145.
We look forward to connecting with you.
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