REGISTRATION NEWS
Registration during the holiday season
During the summermonths VKC is open for registration during the regular hours. However, during a few weeks we have to work with a down-sized staff. Should you wish to register a large amount of products or wish to deliver at a different time, please contact us. Also VBN stays open for giving out codes.
VKC registers trees
As from January 1 2010 VKC registers arboricultural products for which a VARB/VBN-code is requested. Registration of new products will take place as follows: the grower signs in the product at VKC, where (by VKC or by Applied Research) a name check will take place. The product will be described and be released for coding. Finally VKC will enter the product in the database PlantScope. This method will require more product information at registration level. Each product will not only be described, but also be shown with one or more photos in PlantScope. Up till now most products in the database have been photographed in a studio. Products as large trees will be photographed on location.
Under Procedure Registration the procedure of registration can be downloaded. You will also find the digital registration form there.
VKC starts Rhipsalis assortment trials
During the last few years VKC has been registrating Rhipsalis. Often another name than first stated appeared to be true. Conversations with practice learned that several variety names are used. Besides this morphological differences appear to occur when cultivating differently. Also the age of the plant gives differences, which are probably mutants. Varieties are thus created and even Growers Rights are applied for and sometimes even granted. This creates an unwanted situation. A number of producers, together with the VKC taxonomist and Grower's Rights research worker of Naktuinbouw, have decided to plant up the commercially most attractive assortment. This assortment is monitored during growth, flowering and the period of berry-ing. Hopefully with the information a uniform denomination can be created.
