January 16, 2025
On Monday January 13th, Syngenta Flowers opened their doors at the Syngenta Flowers Grower Event in Pune to dozens of excited flower growers. Uplifted with the positive spirits of Makar Sakranti celebrations that coincided with the three-day event, growers entered the flower show to be amazed by the abundance of colors, scents and unique plant shapes and sizes.
The event was organized in cooperation with Show at Balaji Blossoms seedlings Mr. Santosh Shitole, Sortapwadi Pune, Syngenta showed new varieties in the portfolios of Syngenta Flowers and Floranova.
Key Account Manager Gautam Sangle welcomes growers.
Customer Ramavitaka Agribiotech shared his enthusiasm: “I was here last year as well. Again, Syngenta Flowers organized a great show with lots of new varieties. We liked the Bulls Eye Pelargonium a lot. We were already familiar with Maverick, that we have been growing for many years now. But the Bulls Eye has nice chocolate leaves. These leaves contrast so nicely with the bright flowers. This could be a wonderful opportunity for us to further grow our business in pelargonium.”
For Technical Sales Manager Anurodh Singh it is his first big Syngenta Flowers event. He joined the India team little less than a year. Nonetheless, he answers the questions of growers with confidence and excitement: “We have a strong and compelling portfolio in petunia grandifloras with Tritunia and Prism. Most growers are familiar with them. But the more innovative growers are looking more towards premium types like Skybox, FotoFinish and Flashforward. These are the petunia pendula types, with lots more flowers, very suitable for hanging baskets and landscaping. FlashForward is extremely free flowering all summer long, even under difficult garden and weather conditions as we often have in India. The series is available in 12 distinct, matching colors. Even more spreading is the FotoFinish. This series has 9 colors and is very programmable in 9 to 10 weeks. Masses of flowers cover the entire trailing plant.”
The team was also very satisfied by the growers’ interest in Impatiens walleriana Florific®. Indian growers struggle sometimes with maintaining elite material for local vegetative production. Florific® is the impatiens with a vegetative floriferousness, but it comes from seed. This makes production for the growers a lot easier.
Anurodh Singh presenting Florific.
The antirrhinum portfolio of Syngenta Flowers and Floranova combined has a very complete offer for all applications. The dwarf types as SnaptiniTM and, the very scented Sweet DuetTM to the cut flower varieties like, OpusTM and OvertureTM.
Prathamesh Ghorpade, Syngenta Flowers Product Manager APAC, explains about the different series in the Antirrhinum portfolio of the Syngenta and Floranova brands.
The Pune Grower Event is held just in time. Key Account Manager South Asia Gautam Sangle sees a rapid development of commercial landscaping in various places in India. “More and more investors and entrepreneurs are stepping in the opportunity to develop commercial landscape sites. With more people with disposable income, landscaping becomes a profitable investment for city planning. This is driving the horticulture industry, and we are ideally situated with our portfolio. Many of our products are well proven in the Chinese market for garden performance in landscape applications. But they are also trialed and tested on our trial fields around the world.”
Sachin Lohote showing applicability for landscaping with combination of genetics: Celosia - Bright Spark, Antirrhinum majus – Snaptini, Salvia Splendens – Mojave and Dianthus chinsensis - Venti Parfait.
The next opportunity to see the Syngenta Flowers and Floranova genetics is end of January (week 5) at Vivero Garden in Bhimtal area, Feb 7-9 at Jain Agro Greens in Delhi area, or Feb 17-19 at Liebigs Agro Chem in Kolkata area.
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