", Your plugs are stellar! Should you do it? I always need at least two layers, and even then I still have trouble sometimes with them being too big and heavy. It'll just help you help you sleep a little better at night. !, Now I want a whole field of lisianthus! We also leave a 6-12" gap between varieties when planting our Lisianthus beds to provide a physical barrier if and when fusarium strikes. So, the plastic mulch kind of closes around the plant after you plant. 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. All orders are subject to seed availability. You know, put a piece of frost cloth over there if you're going to have a cold snap. Large seeds tend to produce plants that grow quickly (think of sunflowers or pumpkins) whereas tiny seeds tend to need a long time to build up strength. How we plant Lisianthus Plugs on our flower farm TIMING. . They have an office in California as well, but Voyage, Roseanne, Rosita, a lot of the varieties we rely on come from Sakata and have an excellent tutorial. I am also known as Farmer Bailey. Plant these first, when the soil is still cool, you know, from late winter. Get directions to \"Sweet Girl Farms\" by searching them on google maps or apple maps. The broad geographic range also tells me Lisianthus is tolerant of a wide range of temperatures. This is another of our series that we've been doing for cut flower growers in Kentucky, so I am going to put a little poll up before we get started. And the answer is no, but let metell you why, so the majority ofthe seed is produced in Japan. I do this in Vermont just because usually we're waiting for snow to melt and we want something to do. I will say our flower quality in the US tends to be a little bit better, growing under natural light. 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. So, rule of thumb is to order before Thanksgiving, which I believe is this week. And then kind of as a last-ditch effort around your last frost, try some 3s and 4s and, you know, give them some shade. The Q&A well be monitoring. A friend of mine planted some in July in Tennessee and every one of them rosetted. That's out of the cooler. Once your seedlings start to grow, you're nearly in the clear. Something like a Chrysal #2. The Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, ASCFG. The lower number is going to have bigger plugs. So, I have a 50 or 72 cell tray on hand. Now, we could theoretically get raw speed from Japan. We give them wider spacing than they do in Holland, so it's slightly different product, but just really fascinating to see how they're doing it. That seemed a lot higher than I remembered, so I checked my records and, guess what? These greenhouses, you're looking at a 500 foot bed on this side. Well if you tell me no, that usually just gets me kind of excited and I want to find out why you're telling me no. Endless Summer hydrangeas. While I'm on that topic, if you ever see a disease plant and you're a production grower, get that plant to your university plant pathologist. Water, even if it is moistsoil, water again. This is the Solo series. Botrytis is also an issue of post-harvest. 30-40". 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. I feel confident that we reached near that level. March 23, 2022. professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. OK. This is one of the trips I made down. 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. BH: Alright thanks Cindy. Enter store using password: A lot of the early breeding happened in Florida and then I'll show you how far it's come in just a really short time. Lisianthus is native to a wide range of North America, from Northern Mexico into the Southern United States: from Florida west to California, and north in the interior to Montana and South Dakota. - If you suspect fusarium or see any unexplained disease issue, take a sample and send it to your state plant pathologist. But if you're selling into a premium florist market, I recommend not pinching because you're just going to get bigger stems. I think maybe I'm just repeating what I just said. CF: Oh good. Lisis need a cool start to life. That's really keeping an eye on the natural light outside and supplementing light. Remove first bud to allow several blooms to open before cutting. Fusarium and root rots of various sorts are the biggest issue, and there's a lot of different root rots. 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!). They're a high value crop. We had about a half acre in tunnel production. The Japanese have really brought this type of breeding to the rest of the world, despite it being an American wildflower. I prefer to grow all Lisianthus in a tunnel, but for field growing, perhaps avoid the big ruffled types. These will have, you know, 3-4 inch flowers. We'll see if that make any difference. I would use the silver mulch to keep the soil cool to make sure I wasn't getting rosetting and I never had a problem with it. So, they grow them in I think about 1-meter beds. The plant must also be mature enough, and this last one is a little hard to define, as it varies by variety. It saves resources. There is no right answer. 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. 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. That will really trigger them into throwing out that second flush. Last winter, we ran a small seed starting trial with lupine. PLUGS + BULBS: Fred C Gloeckner & Co + Farmer Bailey. I mean, if you've got a high tunnel, that's where Id put them. Let's say most growers order plugs, of any size. The seeds were surface sown and then misted gently with a spray bottle. And I talked to a number of brokers and suppliers and everyone just told me,no. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! You know, just be careful not to over fertilize them, but you know, fresh cow manure can. Additional outdoor areas for seasonal growing of mums, asters, flowering kale, and perennials comprise another 8.3 acres. Drench plugs with a biofungicide (Rootshield, Actinovate, PreFence, etc.) This is simply the practice of getting your Lisianthus early and then potting them into a larger tray before eventual transplant. Okay, this is kind of a bad picture. 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. You know, think about a sunflower, think about a zinnia. There's a grower that grows 60 million stems a week. That helps airflow down the middle. Always great to see you and have a great sales season. Unfortunately it is ubiquitous, being found at some level in most natural soils. Farmer Bailey Flower Plug Unboxing: Lisianthus Sweet Girl Farms 560 subscribers Subscribe 1.7K views 1 year ago I'm so excited to unbox my Lisianthus starts from Farmer Bailey. That's really the first step - just keeping your humidity high. CF: And while you're doing that, I'm going to go ahead and introduce our speaker just real briefly, and then I'll kind of do a little bit of housekeeping, but I think everybody is excited to have Bailey Hale joining us tonight. Transcript for Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey. OK, the main diseases. Here on our 50 acre slice of heaven in the northeast corner of Vermont we produce cut flowers, sweet pea seed, beef, pork, and chicken. We'll be sure to get right back to you. You see how nice each of those plants looks after. But, if you just spend a little time there's a part of the website - the first thing you see would be like hey, are you new? These are Lisianthus in the Westlands, Netherlands. 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. OK, fantastic. Find your state's cooperative extension, Short lived perennial, best treated as an annual. FD: OK, here's a good one. 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. You see our tunnels. 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. FD: So, we havea couple more questions. Based on lead time, ship dates for a particular variety will be removed from the store once it reaches its sow date. BH: I would say they're pretty flexible. Series like Voyage, Corelli, Celeb, Megalo. They generally grow mainly in the central part of the US. Thanks for all you do. It does have a really great rose shape that was sort of the initial selling point for lisianthus. So, two weeks. This meeting was hosted by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, the Kentucky Horticulture Council, and the University of Kentucky Center for Crop Diversification.Transcript:https://www.uky.edu/ccd/content/virtual-cut-flower-short-course-learning-lisianthus-farmer-baileyFarmer Bailey Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/farmerbaileyplugs/Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growershttps://www.ascfg.org/Landing Page of University of Kentucky Center for Crop Diversification Resources for Cut Flowershttp://www.uky.edu/ccd/cut-flowersRegistration for 2023 Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Grower Conferencehttps://2023kyfruitvegconference.eventbrite.com Well,theirs wasn't - they didn't understand the need for these. Now, when I was a floral designer, I was buying these in from Holland, from Japan. We just saw it - saw soil steaming - in Holland last week. And, you know, hope folks reach out for good information. This group is for professional growers only. 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. But Lisianthus is what we're here to talk about tonight. Today is January 15. All plugs are grown to order at Gro 'n Sell. Not very complicated. They may only live two or three years in the wild. You know, for a corsage or boutonniere and then harvest your stem later when you have at least three flowers open. So, whatever you need to do to keep your weeds under control. Powered by Shopify. Croma Series. All of our plugs are grown to order, and we've established that they take 12 weeks to grow, so make sure you order them 4 or 5 months before you intend to plant them. Umm, yeah, why? FD: Let's see, how many stems per plant could you expect if you're not pinching out that first flower? If they sense it's getting really hot, they decide that they're not going to flower this year. I have the challenge of deciding how and if I'll divide and transplant the seedlings once they get larger to save as many as possible. Put these in your trash, not in your compost, and get rid of them. But if you live in a dry place, they would probably do just fine outside. So just remember to plant in the spring. They don't mind ita little cool to start with. They have LED lights up there. So, I had the fortune of going to Japan in 2019. And then afterwards people thought that I knew something they didn't, so I kept getting all kinds of requests for new products. This was such an informative webinar. Place them on a clean bench. In terms of spacing, I like 8 plants per square foot, so if you're using the standard support netting that we can get in the US, it was about 6 inch by 6 inch squares. You want to just kind of step them through the process a little bit? So when do you transplant Lisianthus for the best results? You have fewer blemishes and spots on them when grown in a high tunnel. We've been monitoring the chat and just kind of coming up with ones that seemed like everybody hadsimilar questions, so one was about succession planting to kind of extend that bloom time. They get taller or the flowers get bigger. Our lisianthus seeds were sown 2 seeds to a cell, uncovered,in deep-root 50-cell trays. We trial everything before we put it on our website. Yes, I am in theplug business, but when you grow them from seed, you'll understand the value of a plug. South CentralAlabama, Arkansas, Arizona - you can read the states there - into Mexico. Please place your order at least 10-12 weeks before your desired Ship Date. But use those groups 3 and 4 because they won't respond to that long day length as quickly as the groups 1 and 2. They're just such slow growers. 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