The Ohio State University is offering an online course for strawberry growers to learn the essentials of soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment.
The Strawbery School Online offers all the keys to learn soilless production of strawberry under greenhouse and indoor controlled environment. Contents include strawberry physiology, cultivar selection, production practices, and systems. Six lectures will be delivered over two weeks and students can have options of participating live lectures or listen to the recordings. Students will be given additional two weeks to complete all lectures, and complete knowledge check to receive certificate of completion.
This course is most suitable for those who are new in controlled environment agriculture and interested in strawberry production under controlled environment conditions such as greenhouses and vertical farms.
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Students will learn to develop a comprehensive understanding of strawberry production physiology, becoming familiar with the technologies and practices involved in cultivating strawberries in greenhouses and indoor vertical farms. They will integrate basic horticultural scientific principles to gain a better understanding of soilless strawberry production systems and technologies.
Live lectures will cover basics on strawberry physiology and production practices in greenhouses and indoor controlled environment – topics include 1) cultivars, 2) transplants and flowering physiology, 3) crop schedule, 4) nutrient solution and rootzone management, 5) environmental conditions and benchmark yields, and 6) IPM and environmental disorders. The first three topics will be covered in lectures in Part 1, and the rest will be covered in lectures in Part 2.
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Live lectures are scheduled from 4:00 PM ET to 6:30 PM ET on Thursday September 18th (Part 1) and Thursday September 25th (Part 2). Recorded lectures will be available within 24 hours for asynchronous viewing. Students will be given additional two weeks (till October 9th) to complete course materials for the certificate of completion.
