We can always just merge those orders so they can come on a pallet and then you really reduce that risk of them getting messed up in transit. Don't set high expectations for the outcome of your trials. Each box has three trays in it. 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. BH: Yeah, that can be with a hose. Farmer Bailey (@farmerbaileyplugs) Instagram photos and videos farmerbaileyplugs 160 posts 13.5K followers 164 following Farmer Bailey Wholesale plug brokerage for cut flower farmers. Really hard to do outside of a place without those cool summers. I think these were delivered in Michigan from Pennsylvania, so if it's more than 30 trays, you qualify for this type of shipping. Even in plain clean water, Lisianthus should last well more than a week. Yeah, our neighbors shoot all of our deer so we don't seem to have any around and never had a problem with it. The Japanese will also pinch out the very tips of their lisianthus so you know in this case I've grown this stem in the Japanese style, but I've got four big flowers and then I've got three or four buds that will probably go on and open in the base, so justit's a lot of labor. It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- this week my lisianthus plants are nine weeks old. University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky 40506 | (859) 257-9000, Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey, New Publication: Growing, Harvesting, Preserving Appalachian Heirloom Beans, New Publication: High Tunnel Production and Marketing Survey. Just use some extra support netting. As with all fungal issues, managing humidity and air flow will also reduce the spread of fusarium. All plugs are produced and shipped by Gro 'n Sell in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA. It'll last, you know, even if you keep it in the cooler two weeks, it'll probably last another. We struggled with delphinium and craspedia last year-- so they made the list, too. See how neat and tidy they doeverything. 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. So, that said, I want you to try to grow these from seed. Right, another thing the Japanese will do is remove buds. 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. You know, feeding them to get a good first bloom and then the feed you know for the 2nd rounds. 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? I'm Cindy Finneseth with the Kentucky Horticulture Council and I want to welcome you all to our webinar tonight. My only tip would be if you're going to pinch, you can plant them a little further apart, because when thatplant branches out from the base, you're going to get four or five stems coming up rather than the one, so you want to give it a little more room so they don't become too congested. You can grow it all over the place. Now the long wait begins. Shipping charges include an $9 fee for the custom insulated box used by Gro 'n Sell. In the early days everyone was excited about a rose-like flower that could be grown as an annual and didn't have thorns. We have very dry air during the winter, so I've elected to dome them and at least keep them damp. Farmer Bailey Perennials Hi there! Follow the link below to learn how it all works. 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. Some of them are frost free or just generally warm. Lisianthus, Voyage First Love William Dam Seeds is a family run company located just outside of Dundas, Ontario, Canada. Cool, do you use manure on your lisianthus? We get a lot of questions about the bloom groups so you'll see them listed mostly 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if you're selling into a premium florist market, I recommend not pinching because you're just going to get bigger stems. This was such an informative webinar. Really grateful to Farmer Bailey for making these ridiculous varieties available to us little guys! Just holds up really, really nicely out of water. I do want to make two OK I'm going to make a really bad joke here:I want to make two plugs here at the end. So, I kind of rotate one year on, one year off. I feel confident that we reached near that level. Drip irrigation should do the job once the plugs are established and growing. Everyone's conditions are different, but just remember that cool start requirement and ample water in the early weeks and you'll be safe. We'll put one of the lisianthus trays on a heat mat with a thermostat set to 80 degrees Fahrenheit during the germination phase. Right, so that's kind of how the plugs are produced. I forgot they were even in the cooler and just in a pinch and I needed something. 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. If planting outside, I would maybe move that to two or four weeks before the last frost. Kind of short, but it's really cute. Water, even if it is moistsoil, water again. The ground is more likely to have fungal spores on it and these can infect your plugs. Sakata Ornamentals Lisianthus Cut Flower Production Tutorial, Sakata Ornamentals Eustoma Grandiflorum F1 Rosita Culture Sheet, American Takii Lisianthus F1 Arena Series Culture Sheet, Cut Flower Short Course: Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey [VIDEO]. In a tunnel, 4-6 weeks before your last outdoor frost. How to Grow Lisianthus Plugs. I turned off the heat mat and space heater in the room. It's not impossible. Let's say most growers order plugs, of any size. New to Farmer Bailey? Overhead water them for at least two weeks after you plant. Well drained, moisture retentive soil of average fertility. And, I never really did try the biodegradable plastics or the biodegradable mulches because our season is so cool and short. About Us Mr. Sweet Pea Of all the flowers we grow, sweet peas reign supreme. It can be hard not to do what you think is "the right thing" for all of . Available Now plugs are ready to transplant (or bump up) upon arrival to you. So, Rosita, Chroma, Erosa, they're all great. Additional outdoor areas for seasonal growing of mums, asters, flowering kale, and perennials comprise another 8.3 acres. We offer Lisianthus in 128 and 216 cell trays, sold as 125 and 210. And I talked to a number of brokers and suppliers and everyone just told me,no. And the answer is no, but let metell you why, so the majority ofthe seed is produced in Japan. There's a bunch of different whites, and they'll look pretty white to me. It'll just help you help you sleep a little better at night. Bringing your humidity up, reducing transpiration. You know when you run your drip tape, soil right below the drip tape is nice and moist, but even an inch or two on either side it might becompletely dry. You're going to pay for labor. That's really keeping an eye on the natural light outside and supplementing light. But with us, we went for one great stem per season per plant. Yeah, I get that a lot. Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. . Our trend forward collections are curated for the modern flower farmer. Clear out the soil in the center of the pot. By that point you're already getting true leaves, but you're lucky if you've got just those two first cotyledons after even a couple weeks in that germination chamber. Thanks for stopping by. The Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, ASCFG. Yeah, alright, well thank you so much. Do you see benefits of one over the other? I have also had good luck using some conventional fungicides labeled for drenching greenhouse crops, and have achieved good preventive control of fusarium. So, I can't sing their praises enough. You know you see the overhead lights there. As a safeguard, we also ordered lisianthus plugs- a lot of them. Now with all fungal diseases, airflow is key. The webinar is being recorded so we will make it available. I ordered from Farmer Bailey (www.farmerbailey.com) and they come from the Gro n' Sell program. I'll show you a couple slides from Holland in a moment. Soil type is not hugely important as long as the structure of your soil allows the roots to make good contact and your soil is not soggy. It's actually our top our top selling variety for a series. The listed germination rate on the packets was 95 and 96%. Some of the first ones on the market were these kind of doubles and semi doubles, usually with an open center. And, you know if you have a plant that's jostling around all the time, it's going to be stockier and shorter. So, when that second tier of flowers are fully open and the third tier when those buds are full and about to open, that's when youwant to harvest. It'll pay for itself tenfold. And this is really a new crop. But for some reason, we couldn't get them in the US and I didn't understand why. It's a great idea. The broad geographic range also tells me Lisianthus is tolerant of a wide range of temperatures. And here they are in a couple of colors. We trial everything before we put it on our website. 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. That can be any three things we sell. We never get a rebloom in Vermont, but we are also not known for warm summers. Transcript for Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey. Fusarium and root rots of various sorts are the biggest issue, and there's a lot of different root rots. These tall stems with large heavy flowers topple easily. There's some more. Should you pinch? This is Felicia from Farmer Bailey. I use two layers of support netting. I got the Johnnys Hoop Bender, which makes these kind of horseshoe shaped hoops. Yes - lisianthus plugs were bought from Farmer Bailey, who contracts with Gro N Sell, and were not grown organically. And, this is actually in Japan. We have to try them! Now, we could theoretically get raw speed from Japan. When your trays arrive, don't set them on the ground as you unpack them. Tiny little lisianthus sprout - photographed with a macro lens. Best cut with some open flowers and some large buds. And then there's an increasing number of novelties. All right. The next step is to drop the temperature from 75-80F degrees down to 60-7F degrees. Wait until you're in your coolest part of your season and days are short. That's something you should be doing every year, even if you think you know what's going on with your soil, things can change really quickly, but you're not going to go wrong with organic matter. Our challenge was that we had a lot of saved lupine seeds from our old property and I wanted to establish them at our new farm for cut flower production. It's quite, very like, very similar to the wild type, but also comes in a pink and a white. I dropped in the chat there for our Kentucky growers, we are lucky here that we have the President of the Specialty Cut Flower Growers Association in Kentucky. I started the first lisianthus seeds today, per instructions online and on their seed packets. It's been, a year or two since we've seen each other, so it was great to have you here. So, at the end of the day, I decided to just use plastic mulch. Kind of the newest and maybe the most popular types, come into the market now with all the fringe types. Umm, yeah, why? A holding solution in the cooler will extend life. Yeah, OK, awesome. With this experiment, I'm thinking that it will be great if even just a few viable plants result from the work. Order now for 2023 shipping. There's a kind of a natural stopping point. If an item goes out of stock, or there is a shipping charge discrepancy, you will be notified via email and refunded promptly. OK-- on to the new trials! This is the Solo series. It helps me keep my varieties straight. Just big flowers, long stems. 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. Thank you for watching. We will get that out and, also, we have just a quick little survey for folks to fill out and that'll help us with future programming, so we'd really appreciate- not just us, Kentucky Horticulture Council, but also Farmer Bailey and his team - some things that maybe people struggle with, some barriers, and we'll collect all thatinformation in a post event survey and then my last bad joke plug, well two, we in Kentucky have a curated page of cut flower resourcesand Josh dropped that in the chat so folks can go and look there. Now that has to do with your soil structure and your soil type, but overhead water for your first two weeks. BH: My advice is to feed them. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! These are still series,still available. Some people even get 3 flushes. I like to remove this first bud when I see it, allowing the plant's carbohydrates to flow to the next series of buds. 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. It's all super, super automated. 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. Pull out and destroy affected plants to slow its spread. The other trays will be kept at room temp around 70-75F. I'll try to take the lids off a couple of times a day. So are the sweet peas. Roseanne that I mentioned earlier is in the browns, series of browns and greens and dark purples. But sweet peas were the main focus. The lisanthus plugs I ordered are "210" size. At least it's evening here in the Eastern Time zone. The Q&A we'll be monitoring. If you see something that looks like it's not going to grow upwards and you're just getting a rosette of leaves, that is probably rosetted. Their structures are not elaborate or fancy. Great news is Lisianthus is really adaptable. 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. Its Five OClock Somewhere with Farmer Bailey returns with a one-hour growing lesson on our favorite cut flower crop. During this period they need to be gently but thoroughly watered with a sprinkler or a hose from overhead to make sure the plug is making good contact with the soil and is receiving the water it needs. So, in the soil, they're really insulated. You can also put some shade over those transplants. It seems that the brands kind of vary region to region. The wild ones are single petaled, but they've started breeding these ruffled single petals and all different colors here. I'm sure there are many of you out there who understand! You're going to really kind of shock them into growing again. We really appreciate it. 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. I say grow what you like the looks of. So, think about it. So, I would get in there. BH: OK, all right, I'm Bailey Hale. Can't go wrong with it. Fusarium is one of the root rot pathogens that used to be treated with methyl bromide fumigation which, it turns out, is environmentally disastrous. So, this is really what your plugs should be looking like when they arrive. Also, the ASCFG has a whole book on post-harvest handling. You know any time you transplant anything it's got to be watered in very well immediately. Always great to see you and have a great sales season. 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. Kentucky should be a great place to get a second or maybe even third flush. 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. And then as far as kind of how people describe themselves, the majority more than, well, almost 70% are growers. Growing in your house, under lights is just not going to work. And is that true? It alljust kind of depends on your own conditions. It's a great idea to keep a little buffer around. The larger the plants get, the deeper their roots have grown and the more tolerant they will be to drought. For the February post on lisianthus progress, click here. Not many people are, especially in Kentucky, you can ignore this part. So, 38 seemed always kind of safe temperature for us. 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. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! You can't quite see anything in there because of the fog. The bigger the flower, maybe you get slightly fewer flowers per stem, but, anyway, they're all really worthwhile. "Growing your business from the ground up", The Henry F. Michell Company has been supplying greenhouse growers, nurseries, landscapers, and others with top-quality garden products for over 123 years! So, it's about the maturity of the plant as to when that plant will initiate buds. There is no advantage to planting in the fall for growers in the more northerly 80% of the US. Website: www.sweetgirlfarms.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sweetgirlfarms/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/sweetgirlfarmsTikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJULBuxF/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbRLWl7XliBP2byAdjesnNgVisit my farm stand! Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. I wish that we could do a huge round of applause. It needs perfect conditions every day for about 12 weeks just to get it to the small plug stage that we receive each spring, and these conditions are tough to create in the home environment. BH: I will defer to someone else. And I'll let you get started because everybody is here to hear you, not me. 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. I don't know if they have a thinner petal, but for some reason they justget a little more spotty, so you know if you're making a choice, put those put your blues and lavenders in a tunnel. Your last spring frost date is an important benchmark in your season. There are often 3 or 4 of these large buds, and I wait until these are open to harvest. Type in \"Sweet Girl Farms\" onto google maps or apple maps for directions. AS: Awesome, so we've had lots of people who are commenting that they're in a warm climate. They're really prone to getting rootbound, so go on and put them in a bigger tray. South CentralAlabama, Arkansas, Arizona - you can read the states there - into Mexico. Maybe just, you know, 5 foot tomato stakes, 4 foot tomato stakes, pounded into the ground would work. Don't cut it when that first flower opens. Vermont, not a great place for it. I met Bailey in 2014 at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual meeting in Wilmington, where we struck up a brief acquaintance. Lisis need a cool start to life. Kentucky is hard because it - you have really cold winters then you get hot really fastin the springtime. Sections of this page. Ht. AS: OK, I've got two more and then I'm gonna pass it off to see if anybody else saw some that I missed. Provide a trellis of some sort. You might be great withthem. Ready-to-ship 'Available Now' trays are dropping every Friday through Week 15. 45 Comments. They can take a frost. Farmer Bailey, hes also known as. So that's a good time to take that cloth off, but yeah, just make sure make sure they got water, however you can give it to them. Sow 12-13 weeks in deep cell packs before last frost. Let me get out of my screen share here. So, I encourage you to start breeding organic lisianthus and growing organic plugs and let me know when they're ready and I'd be happy to sell them for you. That's great foryou Kentucky growers with your limestone soils. BH: Yeah, you want to be planting out in probablyearly January, whatever your coolest part of the year is. FD: Bailey, can you talk about watering seedlings a little bit? To read the recommendations from our lupine seed starting trial, click here. I happen to be in her house right now because she has good Wi-Fi. So interplanted together, group 1 will flower 1st and then 2 and then 3 and then 4. FD: Let's see, how many stems per plant could you expect if you're not pinching out that first flower? There are a total of 3, 50-cell trays. Remove first bud to allow several blooms to open before cutting. Your credit card will charged at the time of checkout. Feel free to reach out with any questions or specific requests at info@farmerbailey.com. BH: Great. Very close to Canada. It was my first year ordering and I will order again if I grow Lizzy's next year. 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. They'll give you much better results than not treating if you have problems with these fungi. I know Lisa Mason Zieglar lists them as cool flowers in her book. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. I don't know that any studies have been done in terms of which varieties respond better. This is Falda on the right. There's a lot of people who think that they're saving the planet by using fabric, but it's woven plastic. You also get lower wind movement in your tunnel. So, Gro N Sell ships in these boxes. Although lisianthus sounds like a botanical name. If you're using conventional food right after you cut, and you if you're going for that second bloom, that's a great time to give him a nice boost and nitrogen to get that vegetative growth coming back. So, I contacted Gron Sell. I also, when I'm planting, I leave a 6 inch gap between each variety. The tiny buds won't develop after cutting, and some growers trim them off (common in Japan) but most just leave them on. From there, they move out into the greenhouse. CF: The fact that it's deer resistant, at least, or deer proof, that makes it very appealing for here in Kentucky for sure. So, if you plant and let me define cool, I would say 55 or below. So, you don't need to panic, but if you're thinking about plugs this year, this is a really great week to get your order in because you know, come Christmas time things start getting tight, the space is just fully booked. I'm guessing they're also pricey. A similar product to Actinovate is PreStop, then RootShield. 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!). Have a wonderful summer! This is to allow the necessary time for Gro 'n Sell to produce your plugs. Then you're just leaving a lot of room for weed seeds to germinate. CF: This is really for Kentucky growers, but we know that there are regional and other nationwide growers interested in our topics, so we'd like to get a little information from you about where you're logging in from, how much experience you have, and then what kind of operation that you have. And I know that if you can't find organic seed, you can use raw seed. 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. The drip tape is only for later, once that plant has started to grow. Our lisianthus seeds were sown 2 seeds to a cell, uncovered,in deep-root 50-cell trays. I mean, if you've got a high tunnel, that's where Id put them. Hello, and Welcome to Farmer Bailey! We also leave a 6-12" gap between varieties when planting our Lisianthus beds to provide a physical barrier if and when fusarium strikes. Japanese breeders such as Sakata, Takii and Sumika have further transformed this species into a wide range of flower colors, shapes and sizes with broad market appeal. 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. Why would that be? You know they will putout some roots, but if you have a place with poor drainage or they're going to be sitting in water, youre just asking for fungal problems to show up over winter. The safety net makes me unafraid to take risks with our little seed starting experiment. 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. Wait until after the plugs have been treated to put them in contact with natural soil. For a while,we were shipping to the wholesale market in New York City as well as supplying mainly one local florist. It doesn't just have to be lisianthus, but it's always a fun day when these show up in your driveway or in your greenhouse. Don't see too many zeros, but every now and then you'll find one listed as zero. Hopefully lots of folks from the webinar tonight will go and check out your inventory and place some orders and we always love to see new operations come into the cut flower industry. Learning how to grow these more challenging plants (lisianthus) on . You can cut it next week. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. So cut them, cut them hard. BH: Yeah, we love, we love Val. They're going to be fine. Really any cut flower in a tunnel is going to be a bit taller than its field grown counterpart. The chat well be monitoring. 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. So, you have slightly lower light levels in a high tunnel. 1 tray is 1/2 Roseanne Black Pearl and 1/2 Mariachi Pure White. Yeah, as I mentioned before, if you pinch, you're going to get more stems, but they're going to be smaller. I think maybe I'm just repeating what I just said. You know, I haven't priced out T-posts in a while. BH: We always kept our cooler at38 and that seems perfect. Plant into cool soil and you won't really have this problem. You can mix other varieties. The long The Short Version Sow " deep in a 5" deep pot. Even if you think you've got enough rain,water again. FD: Bailey, if you think you can get a second flush, how would you achieve that? Maybe you pay $10.00, but then you understand what you're dealing with and you're going to know how to treat it. 2.9K views, 69 likes, 36 loves, 48 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Gardener's Workshop: Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! It can last two or three weeks. How do you install your support netting? Just like humans, some Lisianthus varieties are genetically programmed to enter their reproductive phase earlier or later than others. Fusarium is probably already on your property. You might notice me speaking in the past tense, because we just sold this farm last week and I can tell you more about that later. Michell's is your complete plant, seed, and nursery source! Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. They may only live two or three years in the wild. It was hard to get, especially when you're planting you know eight per square foot, those holes have to be so you have so many holes per square foot. . There's no magic solution other than just get rid of your weeds. You have to sort of evaluate is it worthit to have half of them dead, but half are alive? BH: Alright thanks Cindy. I will say our flower quality in the US tends to be a little bit better, growing under natural light. On our farm in Vermont we often bump up some trays to give them a head start in our short season. And one of the Celeb whites. If the plug is small enough, you can do this by simply burrowing down into it about 12 inch (1.3 cm) with one or two fingers. They leave an open space down the middle of the rows. Ordering Plugs - I've started ordering some flowers in plug form from Farmer Bailey and Farmer Bailey Perennials, to take the pressure off starting so many plants from seed. That's also where the fertility comes from. Once the seeds germinate, remove them from the heat matt. 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