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Transportation truck at Ecke Ranch
Lower right: Paul Ecke Sr.. The truck would head to the Encinitas Train Station to ship boxes of bare root poinsettias. Customers would plant them and they would grow into large plants. Cut poinsettias would then be harvested from them.
Workers in the greenhouse
Workers in the greenhouse
Early days of field-grown production
Paul Ecke Sr. (left).
Julie Hampton (left) and Ruth Kobayashi
Julie Hampton (wife of Paul Ecke III) and Ruth Kobayashi, head flower breeder at the Paul Ecke Ranch.
Paul Ecke Jr. (left) and Thony Maurer
Paul Ecke Jr. and Thony Maurer (Magdalena Ecke's brother) at Barn 1, Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas. Boxes in the background are filled with bare root poinsettias to be sent by rail car across the country. The large scale on the right was used to weigh…
Employees in front of the vacuum cooler at Farm 2, Paul Ecke de Guatemala
Ricardo Campos (right), general manager, Paul Ecke de Guatemala, in front of the vacuum cooler used to cool cuttings after harvest.
Unidentified people posing in greenhouse
Unidentified people posing in greenhouse
Cutting field-cut poinsettias
Prior to the 1960's, Poinsettia sales consisted primarily of cut flowers.