Mast Young Plants 2021/2022 Spring Catalog

Mast Young Plants 2021/2022 Spring Catalog

21/22 MAST YOUNG PLANTS

Albertano “Tano” Hernandez , production manager at Mast Young Plants, passed away unexpectedly from COVID-19 while in Mexico visiting his family on June 16, 2020. Tano took great pride in not only getting a job done on time, but also in getting it done with excellence. He exemplified our core values of adaptability, constant improvement, and always wanting to win, tackling new tasks and projects with his characteristic positive attitude and a smile. He led by example, viewed challenges as opportunities, and faithfully helped not only those on his team but other teams as well succeed in their work. In his 36 years at the greenhouse, Tano was known as a loyal team player. He cultivated many lifelong friendships with coworkers and industry colleagues who recount many stories of his patience, integrity, understanding, and sense of humor. We will always remember the way he lit up when asked about his kids and while speaking of his family both here in Michigan and in Mexico. We miss him tremendously.

We dedicate this 2021-2022 catalog to our beloved colleague and friend.

Welcome Welcome to the 2021 – 2022 Mast Young Plants Spring Liner Catalog! It is our pleasure to present this program to you, and we trust this will be useful to you as you build your greenhouse programs for the upcoming year. We are especially proud to be part of this industry that brought joy to so many in such challenging times. With many people unexpectedly spending extended periods of time at home in the last year, horticultural products brightened yards, patios, and decks when people needed natural beauty and healthy outdoor activity in their lives. We are particularly grateful for the many breeders, brokers, growers, and customers whose partnership and collaboration helped connect people with plants. As you look through this 2021 – 2022 catalog, you will find a full range of plant genetics specifically selected for their quality. We maintain a large trial garden each summer for the sole purpose of field-trialing varieties we sell and are considering selling, and we select only the highest quality product for inclusion in our program. We present this program to you, with confidence that you will successfully grow these varieties and that they will delight your customers. Our catalog also introduces over 130 exciting new varieties which join tried-and-true varieties customers love planting in their home flower beds. In addition to providing you with quality rooted liners, we maintain current information and relevant resources on our website, www.mastyoungplants.com. The “MYP News” tab is regularly updated with news from our innovating department, information about new products, and trial garden updates that can help you succeed in your growing operation. Thank you again for choosing Mast Young Plants. We are honored to be your young plant supplier!

CONTENTS

3 EARLY ORDERING

4 OUR LIVING CATALOG

6 THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

8 TRUCKS + TRAYS

9 ORDERING + SHIPPING

10 ANNUALS

102 MAST FUSION

106 QUICK START

108 QUICK BLOCKS

110 COMBOS

128 FOLIAGE

130 GRASSES

132 HERBS

134 PERENNIALS

140 SUCCULENTS

144 DROP-REPLACEMENT LIST

145 PLANT INDEX

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WE’RE MAKING YOU

OUR PRIORITY

Front row left to right Shelley Paulsen, Cinthia Ornelas, Noe Ramos, Candy Novenske, Angie Lucas, Gabby Ramirez, Rose Oberholtzer Back row left to right Jesus Martinez, Joyce Bowen, Dawn Eardley, Michael DeBerti, Brian Weesies, Nathan Hanna, Tara VanHouten

SMALL POTS These varieties can be grown pot tight on the bench for high density production. MOUNDING HANGING BASKETS These varieties grow more upright producing baskets which do not require sleeving. TRAILING HANGING BASKETS These varieties will spill down over the edge of the pot. Ideal for large premium baskets. VINES Climbers, fillers, and trailers! These varieties are great for trellises, baskets, or deco pots!

DEER RESISTANT Research demonstrates these varieties to be less desirable to deer. SEASON EXTENDERS We grow every plant in our trial gardens all summer long, so we’re confident these plants perform best in summer’s heat. MYP BEST SELLER These varieties are top sellers and ones that you can feel confident will do well for you too!

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NEW These plants performed so well in our trials that we’re offering them to you in our catalog this year!

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MAST YOUNG PLANTS EXCLUSIVE Through our relationships with our top breeders, we secure the rights to selling a new variety to the general public one year before it becomes available to everyone. Be the first to try these out in ’22!

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EARLY ORDERING:

WORKING WITH MYP - A CUSTOMER’S GUIDE At Mast Young Plants when the new season’s program has been successfully built and loaded onto the broker’s systems, MYP Customer Service is able to start booking orders. This booking cycle begins at the end of July for shipping weeks 40-20. Below are some advantages of booking as early as possible. • The availability is good and you are more likely to get confirmed what you are looking for on those early orders. • We have an early order discount (EOD) which lowers your cost on your plants. This discount applies to all orders booked by October 31, 2021. • Getting your order in early helps to ensure that your order will not be cut if a shortage arises during production. Sometimes there are issues with cuttings coming in that affect our ability to fill orders. Generally these cuts are made to the orders most recently booked. Often people worry about placing an early order because they don’t know exactly what they want, or they need to decide on a few new items before booking. It may be advantageous to just put your initial order in early for the majority of what is required. This way the bulk of the order is confirmed early, and if there are changes made before production is started, we should be able to fulfill these requests. Each year we get orders, for example, coming in the middle of February for shipping in March and people don’t understand why we can’t fill them completely. They ask us if we’ve had a crop failure. The simple answer is no, trays are grown to order. We do not prebook everything and then let people book off the availability. We book the orders with the cutting suppliers only as the orders from brokers and customers come into us. We do have some speculation and over start which we can book these last-minute orders from, but often there isn’t enough there to cover a full order.

We get our catalog out to you, our customers, by July so you have time to plan your season and order as early as possible. It is our goal at MYP to fulfill a high percentage of the orders entrusted to us. You can help us by booking as early as possible. This ensures a successful season for both of us.

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OUR LIVING CATALOG :

This catalog gives you a lot of choices as you search for the right varieties, colors, patterns, and plant habits for your customers. They trust you to supply them with beautiful and reliable plants, and you can trust us to provide you with the highest quality varieties for your greenhouse. Our commitment to your success includes carefully evaluating the varieties that we offer you in our catalog. The most important way we do this is through our annual summer trial garden. We call this our “living catalog” because we field trial the varieties that we offer in our catalog. This allows us to see their performance in actual garden conditions, compare genetics across varieties, evaluate new introductions to the marketplace, and appraise the performance of novel combinations. We only select varieties for our catalog that meet our high-quality standards, and which we are confident we can grow well for you. All varieties are sorted by genera and are clearly labeled, offering visitors a unique opportunity to compare size, color, and vigor to make informed selections and to select the perfect plant for their needs. Our “living catalog” allows you to choose with confidence. Our trial garden is highly regarded across the industry for the variety, novelty, and quality of the plants we grow and display: “I am focusing on breeder recipe deco containers. These colorful designer combinations flourished in the Mast Young Plants Trial Gardens at my visit in August.” Vaughan’s View, Greenhouse Product News, February 2021 “Textbook filler-spiller-thriller mixes featuring petunias, verbena, calibrachoa, and a dracaena spike will always appeal to customers seeking traditional favorites. To entice buyers looking for more creative and distinctive combinations options, we’re encouraging growers to think outside the box.” Greenhouse Grower, September 2020

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“ I want to highlight and focus on window planters that have been a part of the trial since its inception. This is the most extensive window box trial I have seen in all my years of evaluations. ” Vaughan’s View, Greenhouse Product News, January 2021

We’re eager to offer our customers, sales representatives, and breeders the opportunity to experience our program offerings live at our annual summer trial garden. Our garden is open to the public from July – September, and our experienced staff is always pleased to share what we’re learning and discovering with our garden visitors. We hosted socially distanced guests safely in our garden during the midst of the pandemic in the summer of 2020, and we created a video journal of top-performing varieties that we shared with those unable to attend in person. See our website to download a copy of our 2020 trial garden report and to learn about the trial garden updates. Follow along with us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn this summer as we will again be providing trial garden updates related to top performers, visitor favorites, and feature trial results.

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Our 2021 trial garden will feature:

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• 500 unique and custom designed hanging baskets, deco planters, and window boxes • 150+ new items from the world’s best plant breeders • AAS trial garden • 2021 Feature trial – Lantana, Salvia, and Celosia – come and see all the many variations of these genetics, even if MYP doesn’t sell them. • Shaded sitting and meetings spaces available with wireless internet. Our trial garden is also part of the Michigan Garden Plant Tour which will be held July 26 through August 6, 2021. We encourage visitors to schedule a visit by contacting our office, and we also welcome drop-in guests as well. Make plans to see your 2022 plants in our “living catalog” this summer!

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THE COMPLETE P ackage

THE STANDARD BOX Packaging Specs

1 Standard Box filled with 1 tray size

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Actual Standard Box showing product from side

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Standard Boxes billed by box, not by tray!

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THE HALF BOX Packaging Specs

1 Half Box filled with 1 tray size

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Actual Master Box on a pallet jack THE MASTER BOX

Master Boxes are 48” long by 48” wide and can be anywhere from 21” tall (single stack box) to 48” tall (double stack box) to 70” tall (triple stack box). The weight is anywhere from 150 lbs up to 467 lbs based on the size of the order. Master boxes are delivered by the Fed Ex Freight service. In most cases a loading dock, forklift or skid steer is required to be able to off load the Master Box from the Fed Ex semi-truck. Any orders that exceed 3 Standard Boxes, MYP will automatically ship in the Master Box unless otherwise specified by the recipient. Freight is billed per tray.

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Tr u c k s + TRAYS

MYP TRUCK

An MYP truck is a semitruck with a

temperature-controlled trailer. Trays arrive

on blanket-covered CC carts that must be

off loaded at the time of delivery.

CC carts cannot be left at customer’s

facility. Freight is billed per tray. Please

refer to our Ordering Guidelines for the

MYP Truck Delivery Schedule and

The CC carts are on a wheeled base so they do not require a forklift to move them. The dimensions are: 22” wide X 53” long X 81” high.

minimum order requirements.

LINER TRAY SIZES

MEGA 50 Grown as 50 Sold as 49 (40mm) A larger cell size used with vigorous plants in Ellepots and select varieties in loose fill.

18-01 Grown as 18

51 Grown as 51 Sold as 50 (25mm)

Sold as 18 (70mm) Our largest plug for Ferns, Crotons, and Mandevilla Dundee.

Our most popular tray size, you will find the most varieties available in this size. Vegetative items are in Ellepots and seeded varieties are in loose fill.

34 STRIP Grown as 34 Sold as 33 (25mm)

All zonal and ivy geraniums are in this tray count, in an Ellepot or Growcoon.

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WE OFFER FED EX, MYP TRUCK DELIVERY OR CUSTOMER PICK-UP CUSTOMER PICK-UP LOCATION 6564 Peach Ridge Ave NW

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