Plug & Cutting
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Plug & Cutting Conference

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.

Grower-Focused Education

Join expert speakers to dive deep on topics like best management practices, production inputs, disease & insects, greenhouse grown hemp, and grower basics.

Hands-On Workshops

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.

Experiential Greenhouse Production Tour

We’re taking learning outside of the classroom and getting up-close and personal with companies who are changing the growing game.

Connection-Building Trade Show

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.

Professional Development + Production Tour + In-Depth Workshop

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 Registration & Pricing

Plug & Cutting Conference 2022 Registration includes access to all education sessions, trade show, networking events, breakfast, and lunch.

Premium Member Pricing

$495

Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events

Member
Pricing

$595

Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events

Non-Member Pricing

$795

Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events

Plug & Cutting Conference Registration & Pricing

Plug & Cutting Conference Registration includes access to all education sessions, trade show, networking events, breakfast, and lunch.

Premium Member Pricing

$495

Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events

Member Pricing

$595

Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events

Non-Member Pricing

$795

Includes access to the Trade Show, Education Sessions & Networking Events

Experiential Greenhouse Production Tour

Thank You to our Tour Sponsors: Berger & BioTherm

$195

SOLD OUT

Stops include Welby Gardens, Blooma Farms, Tagawa Greenhouse, and Botany Lane

Everything You Need to Know about Advanced Use of Biocontrols

A Hands-On Workshop

Thank You to our Biocontrols Workshop Sponsor: Koppert

$125

This half-day session will be broken into chapters, each covering information that will grow your IPM skillset and help you produce a high-quality crop more efficiently and effectively.

Back2Basics Workshop​

Practical Skills for Growers

$125

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.

Founding Partner

Grower Talks Green Profit

Thank you to our sponsors:

BIOBEE
Plant Products

Founding Partner

Grower Talks Green Profit

Thank you to our sponsors:

BIOBEE
Plant Products

Plug & Cutting Conference
Education – Sessions, Tour, & Workshop

Grower-Focused Education

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.

Best Management Practices

Dive deep into crop-specific propagation techniques. You’ll learn tips and tricks to set you up for success with seeding, cuttings, tissue cultures, and more for your most popular crops.

Production Inputs

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.

Risk Management

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.

Best Management Practices

Dive deep into crop-specific propagation techniques. You’ll learn tips and tricks to set you up for success with seeding, cuttings, tissue cultures, and more for your most popular crops.

Production Inputs

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.

Risk Management

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.

D.I.G. - Disease, Insect, Growth Regulators

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.

Back2Basics

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.

D.I.G. - Disease, Insect, Growth Regulators

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.

Back2Basics

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.

Plug & Cutting Conference Tours & Workshops

Experiential Greenhouse Production Tour

Lunch & transportation included

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

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

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

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

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.

Everything You Need to Know about Advanced Use of Biocontrols

A Hands-On Workshop

Thank You to our Biocontrols Workshop Sponsor: Koppert

Managing pests in the greenhouse goes beyond just spraying and releasing beneficials. There are many sophisticated techniques that can improve your pest management program. This popular workshop, led by Suzanne Wainwright-Evans of Buglady Consulting, will focus on advanced techniques with applied lessons you can put to work in your operation immediately. Designed for growers already using biocontrols, popular crops discussed will include poinsettias, petunias, and greenhouse grown hemp and more. This four-hour session will be broken into chapters, each covering information that will grow your IPM skill set and help you produce a high-quality crop more sustainably and effectively in 2022.

Back2Basics Workshop

Practical Skills for Growers

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. 

Schedule

Sunday, September 18

3:00 – 5:00 PM – Registration Open

Monday, September 19​

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 

Tuesday, September 20

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

Wednesday, September 21

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

Plug & Cutting Conference 2022
Hotel & Travel

Westin Westminster

10600 Westminster Blvd
Westminster, CO 80020

(303) 410-5000 or (800) 627-8448

Transportation from Airport to the Hotel

The Westin Westminster is located approximately 30 miles from the Denver International Airport (DEN). The hotel does not offer an airport shuttle, but there are numerous ground transportation options available at Denver International Airport. The Ground Transportation Information Counter is located in the central area on Level 5 of Jeppesen Terminal.

Dining & Things To Do

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!

Transportation from Airport to the Hotel

The Westin Westminster is located approximately 30 miles from the Denver International Airport (DEN). The hotel does not offer an airport shuttle, but there are numerous ground transportation options available at Denver International Airport. The Ground Transportation Information Counter is located in the central area on Level 5 of Jeppesen Terminal.

Dining &
Things To Do

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!

Exhibit at Plug & Cutting Conference

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.

Seeding Relationships

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.

Booth Fees

$995

Member

$1,295

Non-Member

What's Included?

  • 8′ x 10′ booth space, back and side wall drape
  • (1) 8′ table, 2 chairs, and a wastebasket
  • Booth identification sign with booth number and exhibiting company name
  • Two complimentary session passes for booth personnel or customers
  • Electronic list of eligible attendee leads (after the event)

Sponsorship Opportunities

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.