Now that I am confident in my ability to start the seeds and care for the seedlings, I next look forward to comparing my plants to the seedlings I'm buying in. The lisianthus plugs are especially amazing! I bottom water every other day, sometimes even every third day. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! That will give you more and smaller stems. The breeders are always improving them and coming in a wider and wider range of colors and bloom groups. I am moving some of them to 38 plug trays to see how large I can get them by the time I will transplant. Good. It's a lot of big, heavy equipment. Ht. Don't set high expectations for the outcome of your trials. All right. We never get a rebloom in Vermont, but we are also not known for warm summers. 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. There's a bunch of different whites, and they'll look pretty white to me. Bringing your humidity up, reducing transpiration. And, you know if you have a plant that's jostling around all the time, it's going to be stockier and shorter. You can also put some shade over those transplants. South CentralAlabama, Arkansas, Arizona - you can read the states there - into Mexico. FD: Let's see, how many stems per plant could you expect if you're not pinching out that first flower? The lisanthus plugs I ordered are "210" size. 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. There's a kind of a natural stopping point. This meeting was hosted. Another little trick I've learned, don't put your plug tray on the ground when it arrives. Most people don't have that capability, it's costly. Hello, and Welcome to Farmer Bailey! I believe these are both celebs, so Celeb misty pink. These will have, you know, 3-4 inch flowers. I'm guessing they're also pricey. We get a lot of questions about the bloom groups so you'll see them listed mostly 1, 2, 3, and 4. . 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. I also, when I'm planting, I leave a 6 inch gap between each variety. Be sure to check out the unusual color varieties, including rich blue and a truly chic pale green. I mean, it's so versatile. Let me show you somedifferent groups of lisianthus that come in a lot of different shapes and styles. You know the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, voted Voyage light apricot, cut flower of the year and I can't argue that. BH: I will defer to someone else. It's differentfor every situation. This was such an informative webinar. Kind of short, but it's really cute. Use something sterile. 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. This spring we are building up a number of our beds to help with the problem. Yeah, OK, awesome. And then afterwards people thought that I knew something they didn't, so I kept getting all kinds of requests for new products. I've never personally seen it myself. BH: Yeah, I haveused compost, cow manure, there's a commercially available compost. FD: When you're doing crop rotation, how long do you wait to plant in that space again with the same crop? Farmer Bailey describes this series as "very double fringed" love it yet "is less tolerant of less than ideal conditions . It's part of the Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Conference, so we encourage anybody who's here in the area that wants to participate in the short course, and we'll have some great topics covered there. [1] 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. The seeds were surface sown and then misted gently with a spray bottle. That's the facility that I work with. BH: Yeah, you want to be planting out in probablyearly January, whatever your coolest part of the year is. That can be any three things we sell. So, I kind of rotate one year on, one year off. We have about 800 different products, so we've got a lot of cut flower items. Zinnias maybe not, but Lisianthus, use a clean tray. Farmer Bailey, he's also known as. So, for them to pull seed out of their stream, you know to ship it raw to be pelleted in the US. This was maybe my first attempt at Lisianthus and you see it worked out pretty well. So are the sweet peas. Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. We just saw it - saw soil steaming - in Holland last week. I won't tell - I won't say it out loud. They have LED lights up there. SOWING: Transplant: Greenhouse production is highly recommended. Not very complicated. AS: Felicia, is there anything that I missed? Sort by Best sellers first Filter by Availability: All Lisianthus Mariachi Pink F1 Seed starting at $16.20 Lisianthus Mariachi Carmine Seed starting at $14.58 Lisianthus Mariachi Pure White Seed starting at $16.20 Lisianthus Rosanne 1 Brown F1 Seed They're just such slow growers. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! It must be receiving enough light intensity, again, easily provided in summer. You can sometimes stop the spread by catching infections early, but sometimes infection has already spread by the time you notice it. So, in the soil, they're really insulated. You know maybearound the uh, yeah, late December, early January, and I know some folks in New Orleans that plant usually early January because days are short. 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. So, I would get in there. I had to stop to get a little Kentucky cheer to help me through the evening here, so this would be fun even though I see a lot of people aren't from Kentucky. The wild version, that tells you so much about what that plant wants to succeed. I'm working with Mariachi Pure White (a Group 2 lisianthus variety recommended to me by Vanessa at TarrNation Flower Farm) and Roseanne Black Pearl- a Group 1 variety. It must be receiving enough light intensity, again, easily provided in summer. I ordered from Farmer Bailey (www.farmerbailey.com) and they come from the Gro n' Sell program. They look just like perfect little Rosebuds. As long as it's a sterilemedia. So when do you transplant Lisianthus for the best results? It's all super, super automated. Yes, Please! Well,theirs wasn't - they didn't understand the need for these. Last winter, we ran a small seed starting trial with lupine. The only rule is that Lisianthus wants to start life in cool soil. 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. 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!). We had about a half acre in tunnel production. In a tunnel you can plant 4-6 weeks before last outdoor frost. We typically order about 1500-2000 lisianthus plugs each season from Gro 'n Sell. Garden Centers. For the March post on lisianthus progress, click here. It's the same price as 2007 and not much higher than 2005. I don't offhand recall his particular findings on cold storage of lisianthus, but 38. And then after about 10 days, or two weeks, you see a little sprout like this. This creates perfect conditions for fungal infection. Dig a hole for the lisianthus plug. That's also where the fertility comes from. Right, another thing the Japanese will do is remove buds. We've got a great lineup scheduled. 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, they're really great for boutonniere work especially. It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- this week my lisianthus plants are nine weeks old. The Breeders in Japan didnt understand what we wanted in the US. You're going to really kind of shock them into growing again. Our LP32 plugs are 4.00" deep by 2.22" square and come 32 per to a standard nursery liner. I have friends that don't use support netting and I am deeply suspicious of them! If you live in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, you may choose. It'll last, you know, even if you keep it in the cooler two weeks, it'll probably last another. We will never bill your card without permission (in fact we can't, and don't have access to it) but you may be invoiced if shipping rates change. Temperatures tend to be cooler. We'll see if that make any difference. The Q&A we'll be monitoring. Orders for multiple ship dates must be placed separately. Protect from temperatures below 20F. You know, any plants purpose is to make a flower and make seeds and reproduce. They grow them really fast. Just holds up really, really nicely out of water. You had mentioned already bloom group, but there were a couple people who said that bloom group didn't seem to really matterto them, is there another way extend the season? From Bareroot products to Jumpstarts potted liners to our plant partnership programs, Bailey is equipped to meet all your demands, in what has become an increasingly demanding business. With all you know the pathogens you want to rotate your crops. They're going to think something bad has happened to them, which it has, but that's when they will be like, hey, we need to try again and flower. 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. But if you're selling into a premium florist market, I recommend not pinching because you're just going to get bigger stems. You have actually a nice little greenhouse environment over your plants. BH: Very true, absolutely, that'll that goes for almost all cut flowers. Available Now trays are ready to ship and cannot be held. This year I ordered lisianthus plugs from Farmer Bailey. Best cut with some open flowers and some large buds. Both seed types are coated, and that makes sowing them much easier. 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. CF: Alright, well thank you so much, Bailey! Use your fish emulsion and your seaweed, whatever it is you're using. Trial and error will help you identify the varieties best suited for your conditions. Your credit card will charged at the time of checkout. You can go grow them in the field, but if you get a lot of rain, you're going to see spotting in the flowers. So, this is a really great time to remember to order your plugs. This is the Roseanne series. Start by sowing seed in late winter to spring. Eustoma is the botanical name. There's a Cornell study out there that I'd have toI think you can Google it. In warmer areas where summers are longer you will probably see a second or even third flush of flowers from your Lisianthus. You will be offered a substitution or a refund if an item you ordered becomes unavailable. CRB on October 26, 2015 at 10:01 pm . I'll show you a couple slides from Holland in a moment. This in stark contrast to the difficulty I had with retail germination mixes and water absorption last year - it hardly ever worked. They don't mind ita little cool to start with. If you don't pinch, you get one stem at a time, but much larger. Yeah, as I mentioned before, if you pinch, you're going to get more stems, but they're going to be smaller. I feel confident that we reached near that level. They came from Johnny's Selected Seeds and are listed as having 95 and 96% germination rates. The order was submitted back in March 2021 and had an option to receive it in Mid June, so that's what I choose. You know on the left,they have all germinated and sprouted, but they're just so tiny you can't see them yet. So that's how we launched Farmer Bailey. I was missing some plugs, but received extra of another variety, so be vigilant of what you pay and what is sent to you. Farmer Bailey is a wholesale firm brokering the sale of plugs to professional cut flower growers. Available Now trays (if any) are listed on Fridays around Noon ET. 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. Well drained, moisture retentive soil of average fertility. And then also just go in and do a little firewall by, you know, ripping out some other plants. There's theblue and the champagne. And I know that if you can't find organic seed, you can use raw seed. These are small one-inch flowers, but you get 30 or 40 flowers per stem, so it's just really an interest in a new look in lisianthus. It turned out to be their biggest order that year. You will see some, if you ever have a flower, that pops its head off, that's because it probably didn't have uniform watering in its life. If you, I mean, I know I know high tunnels are expensive, not everyone has them, but usually that's the first crop that people put in their high tunnel once they have it. So, the plastic mulch kind of closes around the plant after you plant. They're just going to make a little rosette of leaves, and they're going to wait until next year, and that's really not what you want if you're running a commercial cut flower farm. Thanks for all you do. Flower plug trays ship nationwide. FD: Bailey, can you talk about watering seedlings a little bit? Not to mention, you know the growers in the restof the world, so they reallydon't, Im not saying theydon't care, but their stuff is sold already, it just makes more work for them without really any more profit. It's another one that I helped introduce to everybody. BH: One, unless you get a second flush. So just raise, you know, put, like I said, use two layers, start them at the ground level. Any orders already placed will ship as planned. The one on the right is called Little Summer. Why Choose Gro 'n Sell? I think they need a warmer or more humid season like you would have in Kentucky to really breakdown. You'll never squeeze it back into that small cell. Have a wonderful summer! I started the first lisianthus seeds today, per instructions online and on their seed packets. That's another way to stagger your harvests. AS: Awesome, now we had lots of questions about overwintering, and both overwintering in the field in zones such as Kentucky that are around, you know, anywhere from 5 to 7 and then also hoophouse, whether or not you know putting them in in the fall, is that worth it? BH: Yeah, I'll be in Kentucky for just three days, but I'm having brunch with Val, so yeah. An increasingly wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. I don't know. Let me just say that. One was, I've lost my train of thought, oh, the best growing medium, especially if you're going to be bumping up anything that comes into you. Now you might even go so far as to put some shade cloth on there toreduce your light levels more to stretch things even taller. Everyone's conditions are different, but just remember that cool start requirement and ample water in the early weeks and you'll be safe. They're a plug grower in eastern Pennsylvania and they agreed to grow just one year, just kind of a group order for me and some friends, mostly that I met on Facebook, and other growers through the ASCFG. 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. Much love,Sweet Girl :D or fungicide before transplant if fusarium is present in your soil. Try em outside. The regular temp for the space (my office) is around 60-65F, so I'm feeling good about the location for our experiment. They're not getting the light intensity to trigger flowering yet. If you are a home gardener interested in growing lisianthus, you'll have better luck looking in your local community for an outstanding, independent garden center and asking them if they carry lisianthus. Light is needed for germination, but a fine layer of vermiculite covering the seed will help control algae growth. So, we just grew a whole range of stuff. It's a great idea. Bio Fungicide products such as RootShield, Actinovate and PreFence offer some help in battling fusarium as they attach to the roots before they are exposed to the pathogens and provide a protective layer. FD: Bailey, do you have an opinion about holding temperatures for post-harvest? Bumping up has a cost- your time, trays, potting mix and bench space all take up resources. And I've seen the supply change since then, so I'm glad they heard the message. The plants just have more resources. Should you do it? We get lots of lots of questions all the time about diseases and my first thing is, here's my hunch, but also go get that tested. 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. To read the recommendations from our lupine seed starting trial, click here. 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. There's kind of a trade-off. Yes, you can reuse it, and that's great. We have also succeeded with direct planting of plugs into soil. So, I know, just to bring up, Lisa Mason Ziegler, again, I know she loves that kind of corn starch based stuff. You can cut it next week. How we plant Lisianthus Plugs on our flower farm TIMING. 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. And that is something you really need to be able to do. If you are planting the field, you can plant 2-4 weeks before your last outdoor frost. Down to 20 is OK as long as they are in the ground. Yeah, alright, well thank you so much. 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