The middle of beds have the poorest airflow and humidity tends to accumulate more in the middle of a bed. Endless Summer hydrangeas. Transplant in early spring into rich soil in full sun. I gasped when I saw the price of lisianthus plugs this year: $76 for 210-cell flats of the 'Mariachi' series and $51 for 'Echo'. 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. 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. Just big flowers, long stems. Stem length is outrageous and such beautiful blooms! Send it to the lab. Our trend forward collections are curated for the modern flower farmer. Orders for multiple ship dates must be placed separately. So, I know, just to bring up, Lisa Mason Ziegler, again, I know she loves that kind of corn starch based stuff. I order about half of all the flowers that we grow from plugs (tiny plants ready to transplant) because I just don't have a greenhouse big enough or the human-power needed to start everything from seed. But, just a little bit of housekeeping, we have a Q&A and we have the chat so you can use either one. These are still series,still available. I recommend 8 per square foot. 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. 2.9K views, 69 likes, 36 loves, 48 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Gardener's Workshop: Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! Seed should be sown once the weather warms up, or indoors. I think they need a warmer or more humid season like you would have in Kentucky to really breakdown. I don't feel like I have a whole lot of different things to try this time around. BH: Well, fabric is plastic. 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. Not very complicated. It's differentfor every situation. PLUGS + BULBS: Fred C Gloeckner & Co + Farmer Bailey. Also, slightly alkaline. We just saw it - saw soil steaming - in Holland last week. It helps me keep my varieties straight. I do this in Vermont just because usually we're waiting for snow to melt and we want something to do. They are very well-suited to being grown in Kentucky. And, you know, hope folks reach out for good information. I met Bailey in 2014 at the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers annual meeting in Wilmington, where we struck up a brief acquaintance. I think maybe I'm just repeating what I just said. Just like humans, some Lisianthus varieties are genetically programmed to enter their reproductive phase earlier or later than others. Powered by Shopify. Yeah, this is another. Don't plant up in the same place every year. So, they need two or three weeks of cool soil at the time of transplant to avoid rosetting. The traditional way of getting rid of those soil fungi would be steaming your soil. So, I have my degree in horticulture from the University of Kentucky and then I've worked as a floral designer for a long time, so I know how to grow things and I know what to do with the things afterwards, but I was missing this critical little bit of information in between, like how you support it, how you space it, how you fertilize it, and I got all of that from the ASCFG. I would pull that plant out. Roseanne that I mentioned earlier is in the browns, series of browns and greens and dark purples. BH: OK, all right, I'm Bailey Hale. Irrigate as needed, keeping the soil slightly moist. 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. I get a lot of questions about can you grow organic plugs? These are very literally half a tray. 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. 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. It also just gives me one more little firewall in case I get Fusarium ripping down a bed. Fusarium and root rots of various sorts are the biggest issue, and there's a lot of different root rots. Try em outside. 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. I also, when I'm planting, I leave a 6 inch gap between each variety. New to Farmer Bailey? If you haven't tried to grow Lisianthus from seed, I encourage you to try it. So, our minimum order is 3 trays. So, rule of thumb is to order before Thanksgiving, which I believe is this week. Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. You can plant them, well, as long as your soil is a little bit cool. It's my first year growing Lisianthus, so hopefully I have a successful crop! This was maybe my first attempt at Lisianthus and you see it worked out pretty well. AS: There's you! The chat we'll be monitoring. So, thank you all for your support. Fusarium is the biggest disease facing Lisianthus. This spring we are building up a number of our beds to help with the problem. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. Thankfully, the conditions at Gro 'n Sell are just right. Now, we could theoretically get raw speed from Japan. Not the heaviest feeders, but they doappreciate constant fertility. In the wetter and cooler times of year wild Lisianthus seed germinates and gets established. 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. You know, feeding them to get a good first bloom and then the feed you know for the 2nd rounds. Plant these first, when the soil is still cool, you know, from late winter. 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. Do you have any tips on heat tolerant varieties or justtips for them? That's also where the fertility comes from. Yeah, the Celeb is probably my favorite series. You'll never squeeze it back into that small cell. Third generation family operated business since 1979 producing a wide variety of drought tolerant plants and California natives, with a focus on hard to propagate varieties. Please place your order at least 10-12 weeks before your desired Ship Date. If anything, pinch that flower out or go pinch. They're just such slow growers. You can go, I'm sure you can go, a little cooler, but then you risk maybe if it's verging on freezing, sometimes you might lose some. Most of the peat-based medias are sterile and we're still using peat in the US. Give them some protection, and, it really just comes down to that. BH: Yeah, we love, we love Val. This said there is no reason to withhold water if you have sustainable access to irrigation water. 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. . These tiny seedlings are also quite delicate, and one bad day can kill them. They look just like perfect little Rosebuds. Felicia DAmbrosio: So we had one question about deer. Just remember to plant in the coolest part of your year so the plants can settle in before extreme heat comes back. The wider you space them, the larger your plants will be. There are a total of 3, 50-cell trays. They can take a frost. I ordered some OMRI listed Rootshield to apply for algae control. This tends to be more cost effective than boxing and shipping via FedEx or UPS. Ready-to-ship 'Available Now' trays are dropping every Friday through Week 15. If they sense it's getting really hot, they decide that they're not going to flower this year. If you are using standard 6x6" support netting, just use that netting as a planting guide and plant 2 plugs per square. Powered by Shopify. We'll see if that make any difference. Let me get out of my screen share here. When it has ample water and is transplanted at the proper time, Lisianthus can easily reach 3-4' in height. 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 wonderful. Lisianthus doesn't need much in the way of post harvest treatment. Umm, yeah, why? The only thing I recommend is maybe don't grow these outside. Well, maybe I'll see you on the road somewhere way back here. 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. So interplanted together, group 1 will flower 1st and then 2 and then 3 and then 4. It'll last, you know, even if you keep it in the cooler two weeks, it'll probably last another. I don't know that any studies have been done in terms of which varieties respond better. The chat well be monitoring. AS: Awesome, so we've had lots of people who are commenting that they're in a warm climate. from $90.00 Colors: 512 Full Yellow 512 Half Yellow 512 Full White Mix 512 Half White mix 200 Yellow 200 White Mix. 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. You may also see botrytis. I think Vermont compost has some donkey manure and chicken manure in it as well as, you know, municipal compost. It just like shredded my fingers. The wild version, that tells you so much about what that plant wants to succeed. Their ship date from Gro-n-Sell via Farmer Bailey Plugs is April 30. They have the reputation for being more finicky. 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. 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. It's quite, very like, very similar to the wild type, but also comes in a pink and a white. That said if your plugs arrive and you are not ready for them, I recommend bumping up into a 50 or 72 cell tray. Zinnias maybe not, but Lisianthus, use a clean tray. The plugs are ready for more root room when they arrive, be that in the soil, or in a tray. Series like Voyage, Corelli, Celeb, Megalo. They have LED lights up there. But sweet peas were the main focus. So, this is really what your plugs should be looking like when they arrive. Enter store using password: Fantastic plugs! Down to 20 is OK as long as they are in the ground. You know, to further compound that, it can be difficult to communicate with Japan because of the language barrier. I wish that we could do a huge round of applause. So that's when I first started growingplugs. Lisis need a cool start to life. But I want to just very quickly put the poll here and, Bailey, you can see kind of what the demographics are for our group, so most are outside Kentucky. !, Now I want a whole field of lisianthus! Well,theirs wasn't - they didn't understand the need for these. With all you know the pathogens you want to rotate your crops. 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