The safety net makes me unafraid to take risks with our little seed starting experiment. Yeah, just look for those shortest coolest days of the year and that's when you're going to want to plant if you're in a really warm spot. Lisis need a cool start to life. !, Now I want a whole field of lisianthus! Cuttings harvested in-house and planted daily for healthier and less-stressed plants from the start. I happen to be in her house right now because she has good Wi-Fi. The germination mix from AM Leonard has been holding moisture extremely well. 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. I won't say anything about Cindy. It's been, a year or two since we've seen each other, so it was great to have you here. And this is really a new crop. 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. The wider you space them, the larger your plants will be. You see how nice each of those plants looks after. Sorry, that's a little bit blurry, but you get the idea. Shipping charges include an $9 fee for the custom insulated box used by Gro 'n Sell. You know any time you transplant anything it's got to be watered in very well immediately. Even if you think you've got enough rain,water again. Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. Plant in late spring to harvest lush summer and fall blooms. So, you know what's so great about it? You can grow it all over the place. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. Our perennial store for commercial growers is now closed for the summer season. They have a symbiotic relationship with the roots and they actually kind of create a living protective layer around the root and then grow with the root. Each box has three trays in it. Two of the trays have only Mariachi Pure White seeds. BH: We always kept our cooler at38 and that seems perfect. So are the sweet peas. Let me show you somedifferent groups of lisianthus that come in a lot of different shapes and styles. Everything is kept at about 80 degrees. You know, if you see if you see a diseased plant, pull it out, put it in the trash. So, I think it's really a great professional organization. . I forgot they were even in the cooler and just in a pinch and I needed something. They'll be fine. An increasingly wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. Really any cut flower in a tunnel is going to be a bit taller than its field grown counterpart. We supply Canadian farmers and gardeners with Vegetable, Herb, Flower, and Greencrop seed. This was such an informative webinar. And, use a clean tray. And like you said, not justlooking at random information, but being sure to look at expert information that's out there from the universities and experienced growers and the Cut Flower Association. You know, if you're growing on limestone soil, you don't really need to be adding any lime or any calcium to the soil, but you might just need to make sure your watering is consistent and that plant always has access to water. You know, there are some things grown in half trays. Now the long wait begins. You know, feeding them to get a good first bloom and then the feed you know for the 2nd rounds. This is the Roseanne series. And thatll talk about all of our different tray sizes. I worked as a floral designer in Philadelphia for more than a decade, and then I got the urge to farm so we farmed in New York state for a bit and then we moved up in the northeast corner of Vermont called the Northeast Kingdom. Once you see theyre growing on their own, that means they put out roots. You can sometimes stop the spread by catching infections early, but sometimes infection has already spread by the time you notice it. There was our woody field. We can talk about anything you want afterwards, particularly Lisianthus. If anything, pinch that flower out or go pinch. Get your soil tested and amend it towards a neutral pH and general fertility. - If you suspect fusarium or see any unexplained disease issue, take a sample and send it to your state plant pathologist. I have friends that don't use support netting and I am deeply suspicious of them! Find your state's cooperative extension here. It seems that the brands kind of vary region to region. This winter, we are taking a specific look at lisianthus, delphinium, and craspedia. They're really prone to getting rootbound, so go on and put them in a bigger tray. A place to discuss custom plug orders and needs so that "Farmer Bailey" can better meet the plug needs of the professional flower farmer. But for some reason, we couldn't get them in the US and I didn't understand why. Wait until you're in your coolest part of your season and days are short. Put these in your trash, not in your compost, and get rid of them. You know on the left,they have all germinated and sprouted, but they're just so tiny you can't see them yet. Only in the late mid- 80s did the breeders kind of find this. I'm so excited to unbox my Lisianthus starts from Farmer Bailey. I recommend 8 per square foot. Lisianthus expert and flower farmer Bailey Hale teaches you how to grow premium Lisianthus stems in this one-hour video with Q&A. They're not going to know, and a lot of things have very similar symptoms. Fantastic plugs! 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!). Our attention to detail is what sets us apart. Now if you are in a place like parts of Kentucky, maybe Zone 7 and warmer that might live through one year and bloom the following year, but it's tying up a lot of space, probably in your high tunnel. Lisianthus can be planted quite close together. You're just asking for it, you're stressing the plants, so plant into moist soil. sold out. Any orders already placed will ship as planned. * no The Japanese are just very skilled at using very basic equipment. 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. I met Bailey in 2014 at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual meeting in Wilmington, where we struck up a brief acquaintance. The poly on your tunnel blocks some of the light and so things have to stretch a little taller. You might, you know, soak the trays on arrival and Actinovate and then soak in one more time and RootShield before you plant. . And there's not a lot of flowers that do that. 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. 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. I think that's a bitunusual, I think you're really lucky if you do that, but I've heard of it. So you know tomatoes and zinnias, you might want to plant 55 and above. Shop Sweet Pea Seeds Welcome to Ardelia Farm We're Thomas & Bailey. They did well, and I hope to see more of them this spring, now that they have had a chance to drop their own seeds. They don't really care where it's coming from,but often drip irrigation is not enoughwhen that plant is little. Voyage. But with us, we went for one great stem per season per plant. Order your plugs for a date when you know you will be able to plant them directly into the soil. 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. The plugs are ready for more root room when they arrive, be that in the soil, or in a tray. The lisianthus plugs are especially amazing! I also, when I'm planting, I leave a 6 inch gap between each variety. BH: Yeah, we love, we love Val. Uhm, really nothing special in terms of post-harvest treatment. 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. AS: Awesome, so we've had lots of people who are commenting that they're in a warm climate. But we more recently have been producing sweet pea seed, which we will continue to do after we move to Portugal in a couple of weeks. When your trays arrive, don't set them on the ground as you unpack them. ", Your plugs are stellar! If you do not pinch you will get fewer but larger stems. The webinar is being recorded so we will make it available. Located in Chalfont, PA, our three acre facility houses a large variety of plug and liner trays, annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and specialty products. But, if you do give them a bad day, you're going toset them back probably for a week. Okay, this is kind of a bad picture. We've got a great lineup scheduled. It lastsreally well out of water, if you've ever grown it, you know it's kind of succulent, so it's really good for doing arches or doing, you know, personal flowers, those boutonnieres and corsages. You'll never squeeze it back into that small cell. Sow 12-13 weeks in deep cell packs before last frost. 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. BH: One, unless you get a second flush. So you don't have a lot of time to succession too many of them, so maybe you plant your groups 1 and 2 late winter as early as you canand then you might plant some more 1s and 2s a little later along with some 3s and 4s. It lasts a really long time. I recommend using 2 layers of support netting with Lisianthus. And that is something you really need to be able to do. We'll talk a little bit about the production of lisianthus. Chemical/Spray Drift and Buffers: Is there any likelihood of Chemical/Spray drift contamination of your fields? When your plug tray arrives at your door, the plugs are ready to go into the ground, or into a bigger cell. That will give you more and smaller stems. Another thing I love about it has a really long harvest window, so you don't have to cut it today. 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. OK, here's a picture of what rosetting looks like. Michell's is your complete plant, seed, and nursery source! March 23, 2022. professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. So, feel free to drop any questions in the chat and the Q&A and we will work on answering those when we get to the end of the webinar. How to Grow Lisianthus Plugs. Wait until after the plugs have been treated to put them in contact with natural soil. So just remember to plant in the spring. That will really trigger them into throwing out that second flush. We trial everything before we put it on our website. It just like shredded my fingers. Most of what Iknow about growing cut flowers has been learned through this organization that charges you $200.00 a year to be a member. 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. When I was in Japan in 2019, I noticed that growers all leave a bare unplanted strip in the middle of their Lisianthus beds. Farmer Bailey Perennials Hi there! Trial and error will help you identify the varieties best suited for your conditions. So, if you read up on blossom end rot in tomatoes, that's kind of the most classic example of calcium deficiency. You know nitrogen produces leaves generally, and it's usually the nutrient that's in shortest supply. This gives us plenty of time to source seed and schedule bench space to grow your trays specifically for you. from $90.00 Colors: 512 Full Yellow 512 Half Yellow 512 Full White Mix 512 Half White mix 200 Yellow 200 White Mix. The second it needs more light,those lights kick on. It's real art learning how to how to stake things, but you're always better to do it a little sooner than a little bit later. So, Gro N Sell ships in these boxes. Make sure you leave lots of questions. 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. Also if you keep some 50s or 72s on hand in case your plugs come out of their tray in transit, it does happen. The plant brands customers ask for by name. We all recall the "early bloomers" in school when we were in our adolescent years and this is a good analogy. You can't quite tell, but at the other end there's a boom sprayer that's irrigating at just the moment that plug starts to dry out. Give them a good drink and a good feeding at that time. There's theblue and the champagne. Plant into cool soil and you won't really have this problem. Overhead irrigation is only needed for those first couple of weeks. I ordered from Farmer Bailey (www.farmerbailey.com) and they come from the Gro n' Sell program. I mean, if you've got a high tunnel, that's where Id put them. Group 1 Lisianthus will enter their flowering stage (reproductive stage) earlier than Group 2 plants, followed by Group 3 and Group 4. Most of the peat-based medias are sterile and we're still using peat in the US. If you don't pinch, you get one stem at a time, but much larger. As long as it's nice and tight, get it a little tighter than you think you want it because it stretches a little bit in the heat of the sun and then my other tip with supporting israise it up just before the plant wants to grow through it, because I always made the mistake of leaving it too low until the plant is, you knowa foot above, and then you've got so much foliage it's really hard to get it up. There is a reason - other than that it's my business - that I think you should be growing lisianthus from plugs. I've learned so much about lisianthus, I don't know that I'm ready to try it myself. If planting outside, I would maybe move that to two or four weeks before the last frost. I'm sorry, per year 100 or 1.5 million a week, 60 million per year, and they are contracting their seedlings to a plug grower because even they don't have the skills and the bandwidth to producea good plug. Looks like it died, looks like maybe it didn't get enough water. And is that true? . Flower plug trays ship nationwide. I'll show you a couple slides from Holland in a moment. So, the native range of Lisianthus. These tall stems with large heavy flowers topple easily. Roseanne Black Pearl, image from Johnny's Selected Seeds, Mariachi Pure White, image from Johnny's Selected Seeds. That's part of why plugs are expensive, and if you're only getting a 30 or 40% success rate when you grow your own, just think about the actual costs per plug that you know what it's costing you, because you might be better off purchasing plugs. Now with all fungal diseases, airflow is key. Please place your order at least 10-12 weeks before your desired Ship Date. With time the flower forms have become larger, more double, and more ruffled, making them a compelling flocal flower. Just like humans, some Lisianthus varieties are genetically programmed to enter their reproductive phase earlier or later than others. I do this in Vermont just because usually we're waiting for snow to melt and we want something to do. I have made this mistake enough times to last a lifetime. The next step is to drop the temperature from 75-80F degrees down to 60-7F degrees. Also, the ASCFG has a whole book on post-harvest handling. Right, so that's kind of how the plugs are produced. 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. 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. Transcript for Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey. Now, being in Vermont, I like to go where it's sunny in the winter time. 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