Geranium plants from each cultivar (‘Cotton
Candy’, ‘Fox’, ‘Kim’, and ‘Veronica’) and
stock plant treatment (ethephon-treated and
untreated) were placed on four greenhouse
benches in a randomized complete-block design.
Two treatment combinations were randomly
assigned to each block of 50 plants
each. From the 50 plants, peduncle length,
number of florets per inflorescence, and number
of days to floret formation and visible bud
color for the first six florets were determined
from 10 randomly selected plants (n = 10).
Data collection was terminated 11 weeks after
transplanting. General linear models analysis
of the data was conducted using the SAS
statistical software package version 6 (SAS
Institute, Cary, N.C.).