You can go, I'm sure you can go, a little cooler, but then you risk maybe if it's verging on freezing, sometimes you might lose some. Flowers like lisianthus, for example, have an extremely long lead time because they . This is to allow the necessary time for Gro 'n Sell to produce your plugs. We supply Canadian farmers and gardeners with Vegetable, Herb, Flower, and Greencrop seed. I gasped when I saw the price of lisianthus plugs this year: $76 for 210-cell flats of the 'Mariachi' series and $51 for 'Echo'. Your source for growing guides, cultural information, industry insight, farmer profiles, and so much more! So, the native range of Lisianthus. Don't set high expectations for the outcome of your trials. Today is January 15. This is why so many of us rely on plugs rather than growing our own Lisianthus from seed. It's the same price as 2007 and not much higher than 2005. So that's in January. So that's when I first started growingplugs. If I'm starting something in December that I have to keep an eye on until March or April, well, that really cuts into my travel time. Yeah, as I mentioned before, if you pinch, you're going to get more stems, but they're going to be smaller. There will likely be a series of buds held just above these open flowers. The drip tape is only for later, once that plant has started to grow. SOWING: Transplant: Greenhouse production is highly recommended. If you are trying to grow your own at home, or if you are growing your own - I don't want to say you can't - this is about what they should look like when you are ready to transplant. I always need at least two layers, and even then I still have trouble sometimes with them being too big and heavy. Click here to learn more. In warmer areas where summers are longer you will probably see a second or even third flush of flowers from your Lisianthus. Pull out and destroy affected plants to slow its spread. Now, it uses half inch electrical EMT conduit. !, Now I want a whole field of lisianthus! In cool climates Lisianthus tends to grow slowly to a very tall and large size. You will be offered a substitution or a refund if an item you ordered becomes unavailable. Thanks for taking the guesswork out of starting these from seed!, "This year I invested in virus free (Cafe au Lait dahlia) cuttings from Farmer Bailey and they are spectacular! We are going to hold all the questions until the end just so that we can get through the presentation. CRB on October 26, 2015 at 10:01 pm . Just use some extra support netting. Use a good compost based seed starting mix. So, if youknow, any plant really. Temperatures tend to be cooler. The plant must also be mature enough, and this last one is a little hard to define, as it varies by variety. They get very heavy when those flowers are all open. But almost anything that's fully composted is greatfor almost all soil. Each box has three trays in it. FD: Let's see, what's the most important thing we can do to make sure you get strong stems? Really any cut flower in a tunnel is going to be a bit taller than its field grown counterpart. The regular temp for the space (my office) is around 60-65F, so I'm feeling good about the location for our experiment. All right, some people like to bump up their plugs into a bigger cell before they go in the field. You definitely have a Kentucky connection and we're glad to have you with us tonightand giving this webinar. Start by sowing seed in late winter to spring. Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. Our lisianthus seeds were sown 2 seeds to a cell, uncovered,in deep-root 50-cell trays. BH: My advice is to feed them. Well, I don't think they do. I don't argue that, but I think the risk might be a little too great considering how expensive the plugs can be. This creates perfect conditions for fungal infection. But then we'd have to have that pelleted with an organic certified pellet in the US, and you're looking at 50 to 100,000 seeds per variety. Growing in your house, under lights is just not going to work. And the answer is no, but let metell you why, so the majority ofthe seed is produced in Japan. These will have, you know, 3-4 inch flowers. That said if your plugs arrive and you are not ready for them, I recommend bumping up into a 50 or 72 cell tray. Yes, Please! Roseanne Black Pearl, image from Johnny's Selected Seeds, Mariachi Pure White, image from Johnny's Selected Seeds. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! They have LED lights up there. So, if you're cutting its flower off, it's going to try again. Yeah, I get that a lot. These lisianthus are the only of our crops that will not be sold as CNG. The biofungicides are, you know, they're an organic product, kind of. Don't hold them for more than a week, as they can and will become rootbound and will be stunted later in life. Now, if you're just kind of picking and choosing who's open this week, you know what flowers you cut this week or next week, then your second flush, won't happen until you cut off the first flower, so I would leaveprobably 6 or 8 leaves at the bottom of the plant, so maybe, you know, leave two to three inches, but, you know, cut them pretty far down. It's usually free or low cost. I'm sure I'll talk about that organization in a bit as well. So that's a really, just perfect germination chamber. That's wonderful. Good. available in half tray sizes (anything sold in a 51-cell tray.) Dig a hole for the lisianthus plug. This is Felicia from Farmer Bailey. They are assisted by our frigid temps and naturalize quickly if they have well draining, sandy soil. Have a question or comment? The higher number smaller plugs. CF: Oh good. Back in the 80's a group of American academics and plant breeders recognized the potential of this pretty purple wildflower and set the stage for the explosion of varieties we see today. So, whatever you need to do to keep your weeds under control. It's really only at transplant that they are susceptible to rosetting. Plant in late spring to harvest lush summer and fall blooms. Irrigate as needed, keeping the soil slightly moist. Follow the link below to learn how it all works. Lisianthus will initiate buds when several criteria are met. All plugs are grown to order at Gro 'n Sell. In long summer locations, growers may be able to harvest 2 or 3 flushes of bloom. In doing so, I was able to get access to new varieties I couldn't have gotten by purchasing seeds. Yeah, the Celeb is probably my favorite series. Now is a great time to start thinking about what lisianthus plugs you want to order for next year! I think maybe I'm just repeating what I just said. But with us, we went for one great stem per season per plant. AS: Awesome, so we've had lots of people who are commenting that they're in a warm climate. Transcript for Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey. We are now seeing a new range of small, spray-type single flowers with a less formal "wildflower" look to them. Have a wonderful summer! You know, just be careful not to over fertilize them, but you know, fresh cow manure can. So, 38 seemed always kind of safe temperature for us. BH: Yes. It also just gives me one more little firewall in case I get Fusarium ripping down a bed. It's all super, super automated. It's just thicker plastic that is still going to be with us for a very long time. If you put them in in October, November, they're going to look about the same in March. Both seed types are coated, and that makes sowing them much easier. It's another one that I helped introduce to everybody. Your last spring frost date is an important benchmark in your season. You know that can help - shade cloth, it could be frost cloth at planting time just to keep them a little cooler at the time of transplant. AS: OK, next one we've had a lot on is pinching soare there varieties that are better to be pinched? Use your fish emulsion and your seaweed, whatever it is you're using. BH: One, unless you get a second flush. Farmer Bailey, he's also known as. You're going to pay for soil and your greenhouse space now. Welcome back to the Barn Bulletin. A lot of people selling information that they have learned from the ASCFG, but it's available to you for the low price of $200.00 per year. The safety net makes me unafraid to take risks with our little seed starting experiment. When the plants are, I don't know, 6 inches, pull both layers up just above the top leaves and then when they grow another 6 inches to a foot, pull that top layer up. Unfortunately it is ubiquitous, being found at some level in most natural soils. CF: The fact that it's deer resistant, at least, or deer proof, that makes it very appealing for here in Kentucky for sure. They only took me 4 years (and finally buying plugs from Farmer Bailey ) to successfully grow an amazing crop!". I won't say anything about Cindy. History Group created on December 9, 2016 An increasingly wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. They look just like perfect little Rosebuds. Asking about a favorite child, right? Sometimes seed goes out of stock, or germination rates are less that perfect. As well as, you know, we did bits of other things. BH: We always kept our cooler at38 and that seems perfect. Maybe you pay $10.00, but then you understand what you're dealing with and you're going to know how to treat it. Our product line includes greenhouse plants, plugs, seeds, nursery stock, hardgoods, and more. There is no advantage to planting in the fall for growers in the more northerly 80% of the US. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. I know Lisa Mason Zieglar lists them as cool flowers in her book. Landscape Plugs offer an exciting alternative for quick establishment of plants in landscapes and containers. Then you're just leaving a lot of room for weed seeds to germinate. You will appreciate your plugs more than ever! You know, particularly, Kentucky growers shouldn't have much trouble with calcium. Best cut with some open flowers and some large buds. Also, if you order more than 30 trays at a time, you can get pallet delivery and that's great because pallets don't tip over in transit. We in Kentucky are going to have a cut flower short course in January, so for those and, Bailey we'd love to have you here, but you'll be gone and you won't be available, but if you wanted to come we would love to have you back in Kentucky. Liset, the farmer running the stand, started flower farming in 2019 and has expanded to growing veggies as well. The other thing that will happen sometimes is the facility at Gro N Sell just gets full and we can't produce it for the date you want it because other people have placed their orders first. Because I did go to University of Kentucky, graduated uh, well, I graduated in 2000. So, for them to pull seed out of their stream, you know to ship it raw to be pelleted in the US. This winter, we are taking a specific look at lisianthus, delphinium, and craspedia. Val is one of my great friends, so I'm going to see her next Sunday, I think. 45 Comments. All shipping rates are approximate and are subject to change. A tray above ground will freeze solid at 20F damaging the roots and killing the plug, but in the ground, those roots will be insulated. WISH I HAD BOUGHT MORE!, "There are a lot of things that can - and do - go wrong in any growing season, but these lisianthus are doing just fine. That plug is so small the roots can't always reach the water zone. To Order Plugs & Liners: Download or request the pricelist (s), create your order and scan, e-mail, FAX (877-892-9197) or mail your completed orders to us, along with your billing information OR call us at (800) 544-7938 with your order. BH: Yeah, you want to be planting out in probablyearly January, whatever your coolest part of the year is. The seeds were surface sown and then misted gently with a spray bottle. To accommodate a larger plug, use a spoon or hand trowel. So, get some get those horizontal airflow fans going, but also leave a little room between your plants. So again, really want to thank you for being on. It has very deep roots so even in the dry heat of summer it can find moisture deep in the soil to keep it growing and blooming. If an item goes out of stock, or there is a shipping charge discrepancy, you will be notified via email and refunded promptly. Let me get out of my screen share here. Very long lasting. Now if you already have the flower or the plant going and it's doing great, they seem happy, and you're in a 6 to 7Zone you can get a little protection. It's quite ubiquitous, so if you experience it, don't freak out, but just know that you're going to have to deal with that in the future. This group is for professional growers only. Trial and error will help you identify the varieties best suited for your conditions. There will also be a transcript that you can go back and look at as well, and then finally I'm just going to put a quickplug or a little image up here. Even if you think you've got enough rain,water again. Lisianthus are notoriously difficult, grow very slowly, and can be prone to algae problems. If you sell a lot of stuff in Mason jars or jelly jars and a short stem is fine for you, you'll probably make more money per square foot by pinching your plants. We have a small operation and we're trying to figure out how to make things work for us. BH: I'm sure, yeah, Im a bad salesman, I should have tried to promote myself more. If you have 10 buds and you remove half of them, those remaining five are going to be bigger in the end because you're not putting all the resources into all the buds, so regardless of your approach, that first flower will not be useful by the time the next layer of buds is open. The webinar is being recorded so we will make it available. I don't know. Be sure to check out the unusual color varieties, including rich blue and a truly chic pale green. Pinching will produces more, but smaller stems per plant. Our trend forward collections are curated for the modern flower farmer. Can't go wrong with it. You know if its a hot day and you're planting outin full sun I would, you know, plant 20 feet and then water it before you keep planting. The majority of the new perennials, along with all lisianthus, are being sourced from FB. On our farm in Vermont we often bump up some trays to give them a head start in our short season. Fusarium is one of the root rot pathogens that used to be treated with methyl bromide fumigation which, it turns out, is environmentally disastrous. 128 and 216's - those are both sizes of plug trays that just tells you how many plugs are in that tray. Move to 35-50 degrees in full sun for bulking up (cold snaps down to 20 are fine!) I think you're going to have about the same results. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. Harris Seeds partners with many of the country's leading plug and liner grower specialists to provide you the best quality young plants. Lisianthus seed is one of the tiniest of all commercial cut flowers. And then you canalso, you know, if you put some kind of frost cloth or Remay over, even if it's a warmer part of the year, you're really keeping a little microclimate. It's not impossible. That is more than sufficient. and this last one is a little hard to define, as it varies by variety. You have fewer blemishes and spots on them when grown in a high tunnel. Last winter, we ran a small seed starting trial with lupine. BH: So, in that case you want to, you know, if you want it to be a uniform flush, you want to harvest most ofyour plants at the same time. If you do not pinch you will get fewer but larger stems. When I was in Japan in 2019, I noticed that growers all leave a bare unplanted strip in the middle of their Lisianthus beds. Rip those plants out immediately, and as a precaution I recommend ripping out the plants growing next to the affected plant to create a firewall of sorts. These greenhouses, you're looking at a 500 foot bed on this side. . They're just such slow growers. We monitor your orders at Gro 'n Sell, and notify you as soon as we have any hint that an item may not be available. Now, that said, if you don't get around to harvesting or you don't have a sale, you know you don't have a customer that week, you can probably leave it another week and wait untilyou might trim off some dead flowers, but Lisianthus will just keep putting out buds, so it's really one of the things I love most about them. So, two weeks. The Japanese growers are really doing the best in doing the most with this. If you are ordering more than 33 trays for shipping on a given ship date, a custom freight quote will be generated, and you will be invoiced at the time of shipping. Much love,Sweet Girl :D [1] Once they are up and growing they are very tolerant of heat as long as they are accessing water somewhere in the soil. The lisianthus plugs are especially amazing! OK. Our LP32 plugs are 4.00" deep by 2.22" square and come 32 per to a standard nursery liner. BH: Yeah, I haveused compost, cow manure, there's a commercially available compost. So, the plastic mulch kind of closes around the plant after you plant. Available Now trays are listed on Friday and usually ship the following Monday. I really, really enjoy helping you all learn and also enjoy finding new flowers for you. Lisianthus, Voyage First Love William Dam Seeds is a family run company located just outside of Dundas, Ontario, Canada. It can be with a lawn sprinkler. This is why it is almost always supplied as "pelleted" seed. I'm still a little scared based on a lot of the questions, but the fact. And I was glad to see you wearing the blue. Use something sterile. And I know that if you can't find organic seed, you can use raw seed. You can't quite see anything in there because of the fog. I would often use just the Pro-Mix BX that we can we can get locally. I haven't had to mist the surface of the cells. These tall stems with large heavy flowers topple easily. I only know of one who is sort of organic. Another little trick I've learned, don't put your plug tray on the ground when it arrives. For the February post on lisianthus progress, click here. 30-40". That's out of the cooler. Keep them mostly above 20, leave them in place. That's great foryou Kentucky growers with your limestone soils. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. Lisianthus is tolerant of frost when it is young, and will be fine with temperatures down to 20F, assuming it is planted in the ground. Right, so that's kind of how the plugs are produced. Cut them uniformly across the bed. The lisanthus plugs I ordered are "210" size. In the wild, Lisianthus can become a short lived perennial when conditions are favorable. . I prefer to not pinch, resulting in taller stems with larger flowers. Just big flowers, long stems. You see even things like astilbe do fine out in the full sun because it is so cool and lots of moisture usually. That helps airflow down the middle. I was justin Holland last week. I think unless you're seeing just a really bad Fusarium problem, you should be OK with that. They grow them really fast. I think Vermont compost has some donkey manure and chicken manure in it as well as, you know, municipal compost. The cell trays are on a rack by a window in our home office under fluorescent lights. They found soil, they found water in the soil. So, I can't sing their praises enough. It's a great idea to keep a little buffer around. But they, well, probably would not meet the requirements of organic certifiers. 128's are slightly larger and slightly older than 216's, but I see little difference in the end result when either size are planted out at the same time. But, if you're selling to a premium florist market, you might want to not pinch it so you can get that full long stem. They're going to be fine. This tells me that we need to make sure Lisianthus has plenty of water when it is young, and then can be less concerned with watering as the season progresses, assuming there is at least some moisture in the deeper parts of our soil. So, they need two or three weeks of cool soil at the time of transplant to avoid rosetting. I'll show you a couple slides from Holland in a moment. Drench plugs with a biofungicide (Rootshield, Actinovate, PreFence, etc.) The larger the plants get, the deeper their roots have grown and the more tolerant they will be to drought. I thought it was gonna be a one-year thing and now it's my full time job and I've got three people helping me and I feel like we're just getting started supplying the small- to medium- scale American cut flower grower. Well, if you're growing in a high tunnel, you can go six or eight weeks before your last frost in the springtime. And there's not a lot of flowers that do that. If you live near Gro N Sell, you can also go pick up plants yourself. It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- this week my lisianthus plants are nine weeks old. We all recall the "early bloomers" in school when we were in our adolescent years and this is a good analogy. Give them some protection, and, it really just comes down to that. There's no magic solution other than just get rid of your weeds. It's actually our top our top selling variety for a series. Our attention to detail is what sets us apart. I met Bailey in 2014 at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual meeting in Wilmington, where we struck up a brief acquaintance. I take the covers off for several hours or over night once and a while (have to be sure the office doors are shut so our two kittens don't foil my plans!). That's the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. It alljust kind of depends on your own conditions. There are a total of 3, 50-cell trays. It's an annual. So, they grow them in I think about 1-meter beds. You know you see the overhead lights there. Well drained, moisture retentive soil of average fertility. You know, for a corsage or boutonniere and then harvest your stem later when you have at least three flowers open. Those big ruffly flowers can just take on a lot of water if you have live in a rainy place. The Q&A we'll be monitoring. Lisianthus expert and flower farmer Bailey Hale teaches you how to grow premium Lisianthus stems in this one-hour video with Q&A. Yeah, our neighbors shoot all of our deer so we don't seem to have any around and never had a problem with it. Now, it's not just the presence of calcium, you need the water to move calcium around. The breeders are always improving them and coming in a wider and wider range of colors and bloom groups. BH: Yeah, that can be with a hose. So, we just grew a whole range of stuff. Garden Centers. Wait until you're in your coolest part of your season and days are short. The order was submitted back in March 2021 and had an option to receive it in Mid June, so that's what I choose. I went there in 2019 specifically to track these down and not to pat myself on the back, but the only reason we have them in the US is because I went over there and begged and pleaded that they share seeds with us. It lasts a really long time. As long as it's a sterilemedia. The safety net makes me unafraid to take risks with our little seed starting experiment. The wild ones are single petaled, but they've started breeding these ruffled single petals and all different colors here. So, I'll leave that up for a little bit, but again, Bailey is so great to see you. . Gro 'n Sell is a large facility, but they do fill up in the height of the growing season, and some items may go out of stock without notice. So just that you know a little bit of protection from the wind does make any plant grow taller, so it's not just lisianthus. BH: So, the trick there is you have to get them in the ground before your soil getshot. But I would guarantee you all have some questions. So interplanted together, group 1 will flower 1st and then 2 and then 3 and then 4. You know on the left,they have all germinated and sprouted, but they're just so tiny you can't see them yet. They are situated in Vermont, I believe, but the plugs are sent from Gro 'n' Sell (Pennsylvania). FD: Bailey, if you think you can get a second flush, how would you achieve that? Ready-to-ship 'Available Now' trays are dropping every Friday through Week 15. This was such an informative webinar. Eustoma is the botanical name. Group 1 Lisianthus will enter their flowering stage (reproductive stage) earlier than Group 2 plants, followed by Group 3 and Group 4. So, you have slightly lower light levels in a high tunnel. There is an entire industry devoted to coating seeds with various materials to make them easier to handle, and Lisianthus is a prime candidate for such treatment. The fact that they last 2-3 weeks as a cut flower has certainly helped with their popularity. Umm, yeah, why? So, it really depends on your market. Pinch it when you first see that bud and let those resources continue to the later buds. There's a Cornell study out there that I'd have toI think you can Google it. Overhead water them for at least two weeks after you plant. When it has ample water and is transplanted at the proper time, Lisianthus can easily reach 3-4' in height. There is no right answer. It was my first year ordering and I will order again if I grow Lizzy's next year. FD: OK. Okay, this is kind of a bad picture. That can be any three things we sell. And that is something you really need to be able to do. So, this is at Gro n Sell. That'll spot your petals. The wider you space them, the larger your plants will be. The other trays will be kept at room temp around 70-75F. Farmer Bailey Perennials Hi there! So, think about it. FD: Alrighty and then one of our guests noticed that she's hearing that Lisianthus grow longer stems in a tunnel. Wash your trays. I mean, it might work for some people if you have really strong lights and you're just really, a careful waterer, or you never give them a bad dayin their lives. Some of the first ones on the market were these kind of doubles and semi doubles, usually with an open center. Roseanne that I mentioned earlier is in the browns, series of browns and greens and dark purples. Theyll flower again for you next year, but you'll probably start seeing some holes, not every one of them is going to make it. Even in plain clean water, Lisianthus should last well more than a week. Looks like it died, looks like maybe it didn't get enough water. It seems that the brands kind of vary region to region. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. The rest of the world has switched away from peat because peat is a very limited supply, so I think soon we have to have the conversation about not using peat and switching to more compost-based media, but just make sure it's been sterilized. Do you want to answer a few more, Bailey, or do you havea cut off time? Her parents' farms is home to 20 acres of fresh fruit, all of which is available at the farm stand. Now, if anything you've got to work harder to get you know, amend your soil in the spring,make sure you got a, you know, a lot of great compost, use that. So, Rosita, Chroma, Erosa, they're all great. Established plants are very heat tolerant. Ht. So, they already take 12 weeks to grow under perfect conditions. Shop PetalsFarmRI dahlia 2022 Dahlia Tubers from $8.00 sale 2023 DIY: Color Specific from $200.00 2023 DIY: Grower's choice from $180.00 Eucalyptus & Greenery Lover from $150.00 Eucalyptus Plugs from $180.00 sold out Advantage Series: Cherry Sorbet from $88.00 sold out Arena Series from $90.00 sold out Corelli Series from $90.00 sold out It can last two or three weeks. The people who make the pellet, the pelleting technology, they will not tell you what's in it. Especially for this crop. We trial everything before we put it on our website. Kentucky should be a great place to get a second or maybe even third flush. They can take a frost. BH: Great. This is the Solo series. Their structures are not elaborate or fancy. The chat we'll be monitoring. There's a kind of a natural stopping point. These are both voyage series. Because then you have these kind of awkward holes in your bed. They didn't understand how many people were interested in these newer, more interesting varieties. They'll give you much better results than not treating if you have problems with these fungi. They don't really care where it's coming from,but often drip irrigation is not enoughwhen that plant is little. Right. So, I looked at the cooler and remembered I had cut this stuff a full three weeks, maybe longer, earlier and they were absolutely suitable for the event still, so very long lasting. Ive got my UK blue on. This is one of the trips I made down. Right, another thing the Japanese will do is remove buds. Plugs and liners are grown to order, and you can choose from thousands of varieties of annuals and perennials for bedding plant, container and cut flower sales. Next year, I'll experiment with different kinds of soil-less starting mixes and see if one works better than the others. 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