Flowers like lisianthus, for example, have an extremely long lead time because they . Today is January 15. Do you see benefits of one over the other? Here on our 50 acre slice of heaven in the northeast corner of Vermont we produce cut flowers, sweet pea seed, beef, pork, and chicken. 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. Fusarium is probably already on your property. It's my first year growing Lisianthus, so hopefully I have a successful crop! 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. 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. But, if you do give them a bad day, you're going toset them back probably for a week. 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. Right, I'm going to drop in your website into the chat so people can go thereand if you want to just real quickly mention how people could order from you. The regular temp for the space (my office) is around 60-65F, so I'm feeling good about the location for our experiment. BH: Great question. 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. 45 Comments. BH: Can someone confirm that they see this? Keeping this strip open reduces incidence of fusarium troubles. They grow them really fast. Orders for multiple ship dates must be placed separately. They thought wewanted hot pinks and bright purpleand just really wild colors because America is big and colorful and I had to explain to them that we use these mostly for weddings and we want the softest pastels we can find. I have made this mistake enough times to last a lifetime. So, I will close that out and I just want to say thank you so much. They have LED lights up there. FD: Let's see, what's the most important thing we can do to make sure you get strong stems? So that's when I first started growingplugs. By planting some of each group, you naturally stagger your harvest window as you have some early bloomers, some late bloomers, and some in between. Clear out the soil in the center of the pot. We all recall the "early bloomers" in school when we were in our adolescent years and this is a good analogy. It's the same price as 2007 and not much higher than 2005. I cut into a holding solution (such as Chrysal 2), which keeps bacterial levels low and feeds those developing buds. And I'll talk at you. I also realized just how much better the end result was when I got a plug that had been grown under just perfect conditions. So, if you plant one out in the middle of summer, it's going to have so much light and such long days it's going to want to flower immediately, and it might flower on a really short stem. So, we started Ardelia Farm in 2014. It's another one that I helped introduce to everybody. Grow the others outside, but ideally you can put them all in a high tunnel. 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. I mean, if you've got a high tunnel, that's where Id put them. Yeah, the Celeb is probably my favorite series. All plugs are produced and shipped by Gro 'n Sell in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA. This meeting was hosted. 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. I haven't had to mist the surface of the cells. Using a remay type frost blanket is a great way to help your plugs adjust to the real world. FD: When you're doing crop rotation, how long do you wait to plant in that space again with the same crop? I think I paid $2.00 a stick, a 10-foot piece, when I bought it and now it's going for $8.00 or $9.00, so that becomes less economical at that price. Most people don't have that capability, it's costly. Well, most of that seed coming from Japan is already pelleted by the time it gets to the US. In the wetter and cooler times of year wild Lisianthus seed germinates and gets established. Don't set high expectations for the outcome of your trials. Landscape Plugs offer an exciting alternative for quick establishment of plants in landscapes and containers. These tiny seedlings are also quite delicate, and one bad day can kill them. You also get lower wind movement in your tunnel. Very cold, not unheard of to see -35 up there, where we ended up, wefound out that sweet peas did really well for us. 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 was missing some plugs, but received extra of another variety, so be vigilant of what you pay and what is sent to you. The next step is to drop the temperature from 75-80F degrees down to 60-7F degrees. BH: I would say they're pretty flexible. Let me show you somedifferent groups of lisianthus that come in a lot of different shapes and styles. BH: I'm sure, yeah, Im a bad salesman, I should have tried to promote myself more. Now the long wait begins. So weeding, and if you're going to use fabric or plastic, do you have a favorite? Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. The ground is more likely to have fungal spores on it and these can infect your plugs. BH: Yes. SOWING: Transplant: Greenhouse production is highly recommended. AS: There's you! Should you do it? Try em outside. I prefer to grow all Lisianthus in a tunnel, but for field growing, perhaps avoid the big ruffled types. So when you get them, are you getting a bigger plug size when ordering a tray of 50 vs 100? Now those of us who have been growing way up north in Vermont, and you know, Minnesota, the Northern Tier, you can transplant as late as July, and then you'll have blooms in October. I only know of one who is sort of organic. Sow 12-13 weeks in deep cell packs before last frost. Lisianthus can get very tall. So, if you plant and let me define cool, I would say 55 or below. Farmer Bailey is a wholesale firm brokering the sale of plugs to professional cut flower growers. We are going to hold all the questions until the end just so that we can get through the presentation. You might, you know, soak the trays on arrival and Actinovate and then soak in one more time and RootShield before you plant. Northern growers may only expect 1 harvest per crop. 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. So just raise, you know, put, like I said, use two layers, start them at the ground level. And here they are in a couple of colors. And is that true? 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. You know any time you transplant anything it's got to be watered in very well immediately. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. If planting outside, I would maybe move that to two or four weeks before the last frost. We always use plastic mulch to keep weeds down, but if you are a dedicated and obsessive weeder feel free to grow in bare soil. I don't know a lot of people who are reliably overwintering year after year. We just saw it - saw soil steaming - in Holland last week. 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. 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. OK, the main diseases. 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. Those are high pressure sodium lights. Have a wonderful summer! Powered by Shopify. It's not the end of the world. You also may know of us through our other farm, Ardelia Farm and Company, it's called. Now, it's not just the presence of calcium, you need the water to move calcium around. * no We'll check back in with an update next month (or earlier)and let you know how things are moving along. You know, feeding them to get a good first bloom and then the feed you know for the 2nd rounds. Our trend forward collections are curated for the modern flower farmer. 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. The other thing that will happen sometimes is the facility at Gro N Sell just gets full and we can't produce it for the date you want it because other people have placed their orders first. Only in the late mid- 80s did the breeders kind of find this. I ordered some OMRI listed Rootshield to apply for algae control. If I can figure out how to nurture them through to the summer, I could save a lot of money (fewer plugs to buy) next next season. 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. The rest of the world has switched away from peat because peat is a very limited supply, so I think soon we have to have the conversation about not using peat and switching to more compost-based media, but just make sure it's been sterilized. Series like Voyage, Corelli, Celeb, Megalo. The broad geographic range also tells me Lisianthus is tolerant of a wide range of temperatures. 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. That's another way to stagger your harvests. And I know that if you can't find organic seed, you can use raw seed. Plant into cool soil and you won't really have this problem. There's a kind of a natural stopping point. And that's two plants per square, so I kind of stagger them within that square. Their ship date from Gro-n-Sell via Farmer Bailey Plugs is April 30. 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 can talk about anything you want afterwards, particularly Lisianthus. Instructions for growing lisanthus say to both keep the seeds damp during the germination period and provide good air circulation. Remove first bud to allow several blooms to open before cutting. There are a total of 3, 50-cell trays. Last winter, we ran a small seed starting trial with lupine. And thatll talk about all of our different tray sizes. lisianthus plugs farmer bailey. This is a recorded meeting and presentation from Monday, November 21st, 2022 on Learning Lisianthus featuring guest speaker Farmer Bailey ( https://farmerbailey.com/). It can be hard not to do what you think is "the right thing" for all of . BH: I will defer to someone else. Liset, the farmer running the stand, started flower farming in 2019 and has expanded to growing veggies as well. Yes, you can reuse it, and that's great. You can also put some shade over those transplants. 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 Very close to Canada. So, you have slightly lower light levels in a high tunnel. All orders are subject to seed availability. So, they grow them in I think about 1-meter beds. Another little trick I've learned, don't put your plug tray on the ground when it arrives. So, I looked at the cooler and remembered I had cut this stuff a full three weeks, maybe longer, earlier and they were absolutely suitable for the event still, so very long lasting. I would pull that plant out. Hello, and Welcome to Farmer Bailey! The higher number smaller plugs. So they're your kind of people, right? You can plant one year and harvest that same year. Wild Lisianthus often grows in sandy conditions, whereas I have grown it on amended heavy clay for years with good results. Looks like it died, looks like maybe it didn't get enough water. It's all super, super automated. Do you have any tips on heat tolerant varieties or justtips for them? Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. Click here to learn more. They don't mind ita little cool to start with. It is always better to slide it up before the plant needs to be supported, and it is a real pain to move netting up after plants are already leaning. When your plug tray arrives at your door, the plugs are ready to go into the ground, or into a bigger cell. So, group 1s I would get those planted, you know, early very early in the season. 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. So, it's about the maturity of the plant as to when that plant will initiate buds. Yeah, this is another. Do you want to answer a few more, Bailey, or do you havea cut off time? We all recall the "early bloomers" in school when we were in our adolescent years and this is a good analogy. According to Farmer Bailey, lisianthus is tolerant of frost when it is young, and will be fine with temperatures down to 20F (-6C), assuming it is planted in the ground (they CANNOT handle these temps in a tray). These are very literally half a tray. Next time, I'll sow just one seed per cell. Really grateful to Farmer Bailey for making these ridiculous varieties available to us little guys! That's really keeping an eye on the natural light outside and supplementing light. They leave an open space down the middle of the rows. That will give you more and smaller stems. BH: Honestly, probably only every other year, because I don't in my tunnels. I feel confident that we reached near that level. You're in a special location. They're really prone to getting rootbound, so go on and put them in a bigger tray. But on the right, you'll see all those labels on the trays. 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. So, they're really great for boutonniere work especially. By planting some of each group, you naturally stagger your harvest window as you have some early bloomers, some late bloomers, and some in between. The huge range of colors, these misty pink and green are just a barely pink. from $90.00 Colors: 512 Full Yellow 512 Half Yellow 512 Full White Mix 512 Half White mix 200 Yellow 200 White Mix. But if you live in a dry place, they would probably do just fine outside. Located in Chalfont, PA, our three acre facility houses a large variety of plug and liner trays, annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and specialty products. - The Gardener's Workshop Log In That's also where the fertility comes from. We'll talk a little bit about the production of lisianthus. Even if you think you've got enough rain,water again. So, when I think of any, growing any flower, I go back to the wild. So, this is really what your plugs should be looking like when they arrive. LISIANTHUS PLUG SHOP . Read this first. FD: Bailey, can you talk about watering seedlings a little bit? I think there's even one species or subspecies that goes into the Caribbean that tells you they really don't mind heat at all. Farmer Bailey, hes also known as. Lisianthus, Voyage First Love William Dam Seeds is a family run company located just outside of Dundas, Ontario, Canada. They get taller or the flowers get bigger. 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 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. It'll pay for itself tenfold. Let me get to my presentation here. We supply Canadian farmers and gardeners with Vegetable, Herb, Flower, and Greencrop seed. Sweet peas galore the top crop at Ardelia Farm & Co. BH: Yeah, we love, we love Val. It lasts a really long time. 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. CF: Alright, well thank you so much, Bailey! I've never personally seen it myself. It's a great idea. FD: OK, here's a good one. Maybe you want 8 leaves before you pinch out the tip. There will likely be a series of buds held just above these open flowers. All shipping rates are approximate and are subject to change. Don't cut it when that first flower opens. I think they will all respond to it. We never get a rebloom in Vermont, but we are also not known for warm summers. FD: Let's see, how many stems per plant could you expect if you're not pinching out that first flower? 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. 14-21 days of vase life is not uncommon. Once the seeds germinate, remove them from the heat matt. 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. I'm using dampened seed germination mix from AM Leonard. Alright, so this is last week. Your best defense is to help foster biologically diverse and active soil. Our LP32 plugs are 4.00" deep by 2.22" square and come 32 per to a standard nursery liner. It's still very much in play, but generally only on a really large scale. As a safeguard, we also ordered lisianthus plugs- a lot of them. 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. It turned out to be their biggest order that year. Pull out and destroy affected plants to slow its spread. It's a great idea to keep a little buffer around. You definitely have a Kentucky connection and we're glad to have you with us tonightand giving this webinar. And then as far as kind of how people describe themselves, the majority more than, well, almost 70% are growers. 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. 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