The best way to learn about a cultivated plant is to look at its wild habitat. Our lisianthus seeds were sown 2 seeds to a cell, uncovered,in deep-root 50-cell trays. Then as far as experience growing cut flowers, the majority is in the one to five year experience, and, we have several with ten or more years of experience. Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! So, it really depends on your market. The next critical stage in the life of Lisianthus is when it is transplanted. CRB on October 26, 2015 at 10:01 pm . When you harvest, cut them back to a couple pairs of leaves, feed and water them well, and hope for the best. Kind of the newest and maybe the most popular types, come into the market now with all the fringe types. Another little trick I've learned, don't put your plug tray on the ground when it arrives. 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. Just a holding solution in your cooler. And the answer is no, but let metell you why, so the majority ofthe seed is produced in Japan. I have made this mistake enough times to last a lifetime. So, this is really what your plugs should be looking like when they arrive. We really appreciate it. We will never bill your card without permission (in fact we can't, and don't have access to it) but you may be invoiced if shipping rates change. It's usually free or low cost. The thing with lisianthus is, it takesus 12 weeks to grow them, so we need your order 13 or more weeks beforeyou want them. So, I think it's really a great professional organization. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. So just remember to plant in the spring. Please share. Thats, you know, those are the only ways I can think of to extend your harvest, especially in a hot summer place. There's kind of a trade-off. Hardy to 20F in the ground. I'm using dampened seed germination mix from AM Leonard. Right, so that's kind of how the plugs are produced. If you are having a having trouble, you know, use a silver or white mulch that reflects, you know, a lot of extra sunlight helps keep your soil cool, that that can help. So it's not the plug producers who are raising my input costs every year. Big healthy plants covered in mostly champagne blooms!, " I have several favorites but strawflowers are way up there! Give them some protection, and, it really just comes down to that. Every state has a land grant university, and should have a plant pathologist on staff, funded by your tax dollars. So when do you transplant Lisianthus for the best results? You also get lower wind movement in your tunnel. Unfortunately it is ubiquitous, being found at some level in most natural soils. Yeah, alright, well thank you so much. They don't really care where it's coming from,but often drip irrigation is not enoughwhen that plant is little. 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. He's going to be covering Lisianthus, talking about production for cut flower growers. Our perennial store for commercial growers is now closed for the summer season. sold out. These tiny seedlings are also quite delicate, and one bad day can kill them. You know maybearound the uh, yeah, late December, early January, and I know some folks in New Orleans that plant usually early January because days are short. But that's OK! I started the first lisianthus seeds today, per instructions online and on their seed packets. AS: Alright, one last one, then I'm going to pass it to Felicia, see if she caught anything that I missed. I thought I had before, I apologize. I haven't had to mist the surface of the cells. It alljust kind of depends on your own conditions. Uhm, really nothing special in terms of post-harvest treatment. I'm still a little scared based on a lot of the questions, but the fact. 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. Farmer Bailey, he's also known as. They have LED lights up there. So, you know that's the beauty of a modern, high-tech greenhouse, it just keeps the heat correct, the humidity correct, the light correct at all times. Yeah, as I mentioned before, if you pinch, you're going to get more stems, but they're going to be smaller. We have about 800 different products, so we've got a lot of cut flower items. Well if you tell me no, that usually just gets me kind of excited and I want to find out why you're telling me no. So, you know what's so great about it? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . 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. That was a popular question. It's a great idea to keep a little buffer around. We are going to hold all the questions until the end just so that we can get through the presentation. About Us Mr. Sweet Pea Of all the flowers we grow, sweet peas reign supreme. We supply Canadian farmers and gardeners with Vegetable, Herb, Flower, and Greencrop seed. 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. The LP32 plant palette contains species with lateral root systems and are generally more fibrous and shallowly rooted species. You know on the left,they have all germinated and sprouted, but they're just so tiny you can't see them yet. You may also see botrytis. 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. That seemed a lot higher than I remembered, so I checked my records and, guess what? Don't hold your lisianthus in a tray. It must be receiving enough light intensity, again, easily provided in summer. 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? This is why so many of us rely on plugs rather than growing our own Lisianthus from seed. I know Lisa Mason Zieglar lists them as cool flowers in her book. Some of the first ones on the market were these kind of doubles and semi doubles, usually with an open center. 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. The difference has more to do with the flower shape and structure than anything else. 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. CF: The link to this recording will be on that website after we have a chance to kind of clean it up a little bit and get it out there. Fusarium root rot is the primary disease issue. 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. Lisianthus are notoriously difficult, grow very slowly, and can be prone to algae problems. You want to just kind of step them through the process a little bit? If an item goes out of stock, or there is a shipping charge discrepancy, you will be notified via email and refunded promptly. All those good things. In warmer areas where summers are longer you will probably see a second or even third flush of flowers from your Lisianthus. I'll also try to allow the plants to dry out slightly between waterings to try and control the growth of algae (I already see a little). BH: Yeah, you want to be planting out in probablyearly January, whatever your coolest part of the year is. Seed should be sown once the weather warms up, or indoors. Now you see my drip tape there. If you are trying to grow your own at home, or if you are growing your own - I don't want to say you can't - this is about what they should look like when you are ready to transplant. So that's when I first started growingplugs. And here they are in a couple of colors. Yeah, I get that a lot. I happen to be in her house right now because she has good Wi-Fi. Do you have any tips on heat tolerant varieties or justtips for them? 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. Roseanne that I mentioned earlier is in the browns, series of browns and greens and dark purples. Now, being in Vermont, I like to go where it's sunny in the winter time. FD: Bailey, if you think you can get a second flush, how would you achieve that? BH: I would say they're pretty flexible. This is the chroma series, one of the first one of my first years with them. Something really inspirational the way they grow things there. Also, slightly alkaline. 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. The wild version, that tells you so much about what that plant wants to succeed. They're a high value crop. Most people aren't going to do this, but at the very least pinch out your first bud. 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. If you live near Gro N Sell, you can also go pick up plants yourself. Of course plenty of folks do well with them outside so I leave this up to you. Still didn't have enough room even though I brought a whole car. Plant in late spring to harvest lush summer and fall blooms. BH: Honestly, probably only every other year, because I don't in my tunnels. The one on the right is called Little Summer. Update: January 29: Teeny Lisi sprouts continue to do their thing. Flowers like lisianthus, for example, have an extremely long lead time because they . That's out of the cooler. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. Fusarium is ubiquitous in most environments, and will affect most growers from time to time. From there, they move out into the greenhouse. A similar product to Actinovate is PreStop, then RootShield. Bailey raises specialty cut flowers, supplying farmers' markets and florists, as well as providing full service wedding and event design. Start by sowing seed in late winter to spring. Bringing your humidity up, reducing transpiration. Use your fish emulsion and your seaweed, whatever it is you're using. Wait until you're in your coolest part of your season and days are short. 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. And, use a clean tray. I like to remove this first bud when I see it, allowing the plant's carbohydrates to flow to the next series of buds. Dig a hole for the lisianthus plug. That's really the first step - just keeping your humidity high. He's going to be covering Lisianthus, talking about production for cut flower growers. The cell trays are on a rack by a window in our home office under fluorescent lights. It can no longer drink because the roots are not functioning. Really grateful to Farmer Bailey for making these ridiculous varieties available to us little guys! 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. I'm sure there are many of you out there who understand! We sell Lisianthus in 125 and 210 cell trays. These are very literally half a tray. And that is something you really need to be able to do. To start-- these are not scientific trials sponsored by seed companies or anything like that. Wait until after the plugs have been treated to put them in contact with natural soil. A friend of mine planted some in July in Tennessee and every one of them rosetted. You know, for a corsage or boutonniere and then harvest your stem later when you have at least three flowers open. I will say our flower quality in the US tends to be a little bit better, growing under natural light. There was our woody field. Go to a conference when you can, it's a really great place to network. 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. Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. The tiny buds won't develop after cutting, and some growers trim them off (common in Japan) but most just leave them on. OK, the main diseases. Then you're just leaving a lot of room for weed seeds to germinate. Private Only members can see who's in the group and what they post. Now, it uses half inch electrical EMT conduit. Any orders already placed will ship as planned. It can be hard not to do what you think is "the right thing" for all of your plants. When it has ample water and is transplanted at the proper time, Lisianthus can easily reach 3-4' in height. I know you mentioned it earlier that you can'tuse the driptape, but what is the best way to water your plugs at transplant? They're not going to know, and a lot of things have very similar symptoms. They've been bred for their, you know, rounded petals. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. Thankfully, the conditions at Gro 'n Sell are just right. This group is for professional growers only. It must be receiving enough light intensity, again, easily provided in summer. If you do not pinch you will get fewer but larger stems. That helps airflow down the middle. I'm just going to breeze through these. 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. Do you see benefits of one over the other? They only took me 4 years (and finally buying plugs from Farmer Bailey ) to successfully grow an amazing crop!". I'll tell you how that kind of came to be. 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. I would often use just the Pro-Mix BX that we can we can get locally. You might, you know, soak the trays on arrival and Actinovate and then soak in one more time and RootShield before you plant. So, if youknow, any plant really. 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This is one of the trips I made down. So, I know, just to bring up, Lisa Mason Ziegler, again, I know she loves that kind of corn starch based stuff. BH: Alright thanks Cindy. You will see some, if you ever have a flower, that pops its head off, that's because it probably didn't have uniform watering in its life. When I was in Japan in 2019, I noticed that growers all leave a bare unplanted strip in the middle of their Lisianthus beds. So that's in January. I think unless you're seeing just a really bad Fusarium problem, you should be OK with that. Only in the late mid- 80s did the breeders kind of find this. AS: Felicia, is there anything that I missed? You're just asking for it, you're stressing the plants, so plant into moist soil. There's a lot of people who think that they're saving the planet by using fabric, but it's woven plastic. These are small one-inch flowers, but you get 30 or 40 flowers per stem, so it's just really an interest in a new look in lisianthus. Place plant trays on benches and water thoroughly with plain water (no fertilizer); be sure that plugs on the edges of the trays are thoroughly watered. But if you live in a dry place, they would probably do just fine outside. They're not getting the light intensity to trigger flowering yet. Maybe you pay $10.00, but then you understand what you're dealing with and you're going to know how to treat it. I would pull that plant out. Now you can pinch once that thing has started to grow. 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. 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. Garden Centers. Once they are up and growing they are very tolerant of heat as long as they are accessing water somewhere in the soil. 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. 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. You can't quite see anything in there because of the fog. You're in a special location. BH: I don't think I have photos of it. Looks like it died, looks like maybe it didn't get enough water. 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. This mimics what it experiences in the wild. Okay, this is kind of a bad picture. You know, any plants purpose is to make a flower and make seeds and reproduce. Most of the peat-based medias are sterile and we're still using peat in the US. They're really prone to getting rootbound, so go on and put them in a bigger tray. Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. BH: One, unless you get a second flush. I also realized just how much better the end result was when I got a plug that had been grown under just perfect conditions. It does add to your expense. And that's two plants per square, so I kind of stagger them within that square. Lisianthus Lisianthus Plants Rare and gorgeous, these elegant rose-like blooms look best when planted in groups - plus, there's more for bouquets. So, two weeks. Not the heaviest feeders, but they doappreciate constant fertility. Lisianthus is native to a wide range of North America, from Northern Mexico into the Southern United States: from Florida west to California, and north in the interior to Montana and South Dakota. Their ship date from Gro-n-Sell via Farmer Bailey Plugs is April 30. Just like humans, some Lisianthus varieties are genetically programmed to enter their reproductive phase earlier or later than others. That's the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. Let me show you somedifferent groups of lisianthus that come in a lot of different shapes and styles. Perfect. Back in the 80's a group of American academics and plant breeders recognized the potential of this pretty purple wildflower and set the stage for the explosion of varieties we see today. More importantly, just keep putting organic matter in your 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. . I am moving some of them to 38 plug trays to see how large I can get them by the time I will transplant. I ordered some OMRI listed Rootshield to apply for algae control. 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. That seed is really expensive. Other than that, I'm happy with the condition the plants arrived in. Everyone's conditions are different, but just remember that cool start requirement and ample water in the early weeks and you'll be safe. This is simply the practice of getting your Lisianthus early and then potting them into a larger tray before eventual transplant. Okay these rose types sometimes look a little bit like ranunculus too. This meeting was hosted by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, the Kentucky Horticulture Council, and the University of Kentucky Center for Crop Diversification.Transcript:https://www.uky.edu/ccd/content/virtual-cut-flower-short-course-learning-lisianthus-farmer-baileyFarmer Bailey Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/farmerbaileyplugs/Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growershttps://www.ascfg.org/Landing Page of University of Kentucky Center for Crop Diversification Resources for Cut Flowershttp://www.uky.edu/ccd/cut-flowersRegistration for 2023 Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Grower Conferencehttps://2023kyfruitvegconference.eventbrite.com Our attention to detail is what sets us apart. Now if you happen to, if you know you're on really well-drained soil and maybe you're in a zone 7, you can give them a little extraprotection, give it a try. So, I had the fortune of going to Japan in 2019. For a while,we were shipping to the wholesale market in New York City as well as supplying mainly one local florist. This said there is no reason to withhold water if you have sustainable access to irrigation water. Harris Seeds partners with many of the country's leading plug and liner grower specialists to provide you the best quality young plants. The drip tape is only for later, once that plant has started to grow. Have a question or comment? I think you're going to have about the same results. I don't see it very oftenat all. Lisianthus can handle cold. It's just a lot of steps that they're not really interested in, and also the worldwide demand is already outstripping supply. I like questions. OK, here's a picture of what rosetting looks like. Alright, so this is last week. 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