Water, even if it is moistsoil, water again. Unfortunately, the soil on our new farm is clay -- very fertile-- but not well draining. That'll spot your petals. March 23, 2022. professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. That's wonderful. AS: Do you recommend growing in a tunnel versus field grown versus low tunnel? You know one-inch small flowers, but a lot of them. Once they are up and growing they are very tolerant of heat as long as they are accessing water somewhere in the soil. So interplanted together, group 1 will flower 1st and then 2 and then 3 and then 4. So it's not the plug producers who are raising my input costs every year. New to Farmer Bailey? So, group 1s I would get those planted, you know, early very early in the season. 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. If you don't pinch, you get one stem at a time, but much larger. About this group A place to discuss custom plug orders and needs so that "Farmer Bailey" can better meet the plug needs of the professional flower farmer. 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. But again, just wanted to say thank you so much for being with us tonight. BH: I think that might be an easier question. AS: OK, next one we've had a lot on is pinching soare there varieties that are better to be pinched? In doing so, I was able to get access to new varieties I couldn't have gotten by purchasing seeds. AS: OK, I think we're sort of winding down on the overall gist of the questions, but the next one is one of the hardest, and it kind of comes into how you grow, weeding. There is no right answer. BH: Yes. It does add to your expense. Yeah, OK, awesome. BH: One, unless you get a second flush. 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. To accommodate a larger plug, use a spoon or hand trowel. All of this tells us that Lisianthus is adaptable to a wide range of conditions, but needs a good source of water at certain times in its lifecycle. They tend to be slightly smaller flowers, but you get more flowers on the stem when you start. 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. Put these in your trash, not in your compost, and get rid of them. These tall stems with large heavy flowers topple easily. If you haven't tried to grow Lisianthus from seed, I encourage you to try it. You're going to really kind of shock them into growing again. You have actually a nice little greenhouse environment over your plants. Should you pinch? Only in the late mid- 80s did the breeders kind of find this. 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. 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 greatest number of Available Now trays will be listed Weeks . The one on the right is called Little Summer. 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. 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. 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. 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. Yes - lisianthus plugs were bought from Farmer Bailey, who contracts with Gro N Sell, and were not grown organically. Get your soil tested and amend it towards a neutral pH and general fertility. We have very dry air during the winter, so I've elected to dome them and at least keep them damp. Not many people are, especially in Kentucky, you can ignore this part. CF: Oh good. Stem length is outrageous and such beautiful blooms! So that's how we launched Farmer Bailey. OK-- on to the new trials! That is more than sufficient. I would often use just the Pro-Mix BX that we can we can get locally. So that's in January. I don't pinch, but if you do pinch you'll get branching. There are a total of 3, 50-cell trays. 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. 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 generally you see one flower open and then maybe 10 days later you'll see four flowers open. In the wild, Lisianthus can become a short lived perennial when conditions are favorable. I'm just going to breeze through these. The humidity stays at 100%. There is a reason - other than that it's my business - that I think you should be growing lisianthus from plugs. I think they will all respond to it. Like I said, they're picking 1.5 million stems per week. Okay, this is kind of a bad picture. Overhead water them for at least two weeks after you plant. So, Rosita, Chroma, Erosa, they're all great. Look, it'd be great if you if you can do that. They're just such slow growers. There was our woody field. We have also succeeded with direct planting of plugs into soil. The plant brands customers ask for by name. They're a high value crop. She's a cut flowergrower with Three Toads Farm, Val Schirmer, and we can get a discount code for folks who are interested in joining the association for the first time. It's quite, very like, very similar to the wild type, but also comes in a pink and a white. !, Now I want a whole field of lisianthus! Something like a Chrysal #2. This is Falda on the right. You know, for a corsage or boutonniere and then harvest your stem later when you have at least three flowers open. It can be hard not to do what you think is "the right thing" for all of . This in stark contrast to the difficulty I had with retail germination mixes and water absorption last year - it hardly ever worked. OK, so lisianthus has a bad reputation for being difficult, but it's really only difficult when you are growing it from seed. Our last frost in Western New York Zone 6b is approximately mid-May, so I choose to plant Lisianthus 4 weeks early, around April 15th. And thatll talk about all of our different tray sizes. And there's not a lot of flowers that do that. But on the right, you'll see all those labels on the trays. If everyone is so enthusiastic and they want to order a pallet of 30 flats for next season. Right. And I talked to a number of brokers and suppliers and everyone just told me,no. If you live in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, you may choose. I have friends that don't use support netting and I am deeply suspicious of them! We would grow many thousands of sweet peas each year. 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! They didn't understand how many people were interested in these newer, more interesting varieties. So, if you'd just take a minute to fill out those 3 poll questions, that would be great. I don't see it very oftenat all. This was such an informative webinar. You know on the left,they have all germinated and sprouted, but they're just so tiny you can't see them yet. 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. There's some more. Lisianthus prefers to be planted 4-6 weeks prior to your last frost date. 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. Everyone who registered will get a follow up e-mail from Kristin with the link and also you know some of the questions that we didn't have time to get to tonight, or that weresuper-specific. The ground is more likely to have fungal spores on it and these can infect your plugs. Two of the trays have only Mariachi Pure White seeds. It was my first year ordering and I will order again if I grow Lizzy's next year. This is a recorded meeting and presentation from Monday, November 21st, 2022 on Learning Lisianthus featuring guest speaker Farmer Bailey ( https://farmerbailey.com/). CF: Yep, for sure, for sure, but we really appreciate you being here with us tonightanswering the questions. You know, aswe saw crops of lisianthus a year in the same soil, but they're steaming in between each one, so always good to take a break whenever possible. 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. Let me just go on a tangent here. I met Bailey in 2014 at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual meeting in Wilmington, where we struck up a brief acquaintance. We'll answer as many as we can, but what we'll do at the end is anything that we don't get to, we will export those, Bailey and his team will work on answering all those questions and then when we send out the recording link - the link to the recorded webinar - and then well also have a survey link, we'll include those questions in there with some other resources that are available. That will really trigger them into throwing out that second flush. 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. BH: Well, fabric is plastic. I think that's all the slides I have for you at the moment. Read more Designer Highlight: Moniek Vanden Berghe BH: Yeah, we love, we love Val. The people who make the pellet, the pelleting technology, they will not tell you what's in it. 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. 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. 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. You can grow it all over the place. The webinar is being recorded so we will make it available. Down to 20 is OK as long as they are in the ground. This group is for professional growers only. Thanks for all you do. This winter, we are taking a specific look at lisianthus, delphinium, and craspedia. It's definitely worth trying. Now, when I was a floral designer, I was buying these in from Holland, from Japan. Some people tell me they don't use netting at all, and I thinkthey are not to be trusted, but if you're getting by with no netting, good for you. I'm sure there are many of you out there who understand! That's really the first step - just keeping your humidity high. Bringing your humidity up, reducing transpiration. We get a lot of questions about the bloom groups so you'll see them listed mostly 1, 2, 3, and 4. 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. That said if your plugs arrive and you are not ready for them, I recommend bumping up into a 50 or 72 cell tray. Yeah, these are all lisianthus heading out to Farmer Bailey customers all over the country. I think maybe I'm just repeating what I just said. It kind of shrinks back around it and I really maybe only had to weed once per season, and that was only every five feet would I find a single weed. Kind of the newest and maybe the most popular types, come into the market now with all the fringe types. Don't hold them for more than a week, as they can and will become rootbound and will be stunted later in life. Can't go wrong with it. They're not going to know, and a lot of things have very similar symptoms. Just use some extra support netting. 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. 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. Instructions for growing lisanthus say to both keep the seeds damp during the germination period and provide good air circulation. Ht. Powered by Shopify. I've learned so much about lisianthus, I don't know that I'm ready to try it myself. It just like shredded my fingers. CRB on October 26, 2015 at 10:01 pm . Series like Voyage, Corelli, Celeb, Megalo. sold out. 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. Yes, you can reuse it, and that's great. 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. We really appreciate it and we'll follow up with all the folks in the webinar and we'll go ahead and closeout. Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. There are a few items (Scoop Scabiosa, Chocolate Cosmos, Geum, Veronica, etc.) I've never personally seen it myself. Ready-to-ship 'Available Now' trays are dropping every Friday through Week 15. We had about a half acre in tunnel production. Even in plain clean water, Lisianthus should last well more than a week. Sorry, that's a little bit blurry, but you get the idea. Well, most of that seed coming from Japan is already pelleted by the time it gets to the US. I got the Johnnys Hoop Bender, which makes these kind of horseshoe shaped hoops. They are situated in Vermont, I believe, but the plugs are sent from Gro 'n' Sell (Pennsylvania). 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. Still didn't have enough room even though I brought a whole car. This is the Solo series. The chat we'll be monitoring. The Japanese have really brought this type of breeding to the rest of the world, despite it being an American wildflower. What's so great about Lisianthus? So do your math, and make sure you have 3 trays, which can be a combination of half and whole trays. Please place your order at least 10-12 weeks before your desired Ship Date. We are going to hold all the questions until the end just so that we can get through the presentation. Go to a conference when you can, it's a really great place to network. 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. Lisianthus has gone from a relatively unknown American wildflower to a commercial crop of international economic importance in a remarkably short period of time. It wasn't good for her. Now, we could theoretically get raw speed from Japan. The lisanthus plugs I ordered are "210" size. 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. Stayed tuned for more news on them in February and March. At the end of the day, they're all the same plant. Don't hold your lisianthus in a tray. Thanks for stopping by. 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. Plugs can dry out quickly due to the small volume of growing medium; check the trays 2 or 3 times daily for watering. They have the reputation for being more finicky. Fusarium and root rots of various sorts are the biggest issue, and there's a lot of different root rots. Why Choose Gro 'n Sell? Now you can pinch once that thing has started to grow. You name it, I've tried to grow it. They are very well-suited to being grown in Kentucky. Eustoma is the botanical name. 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