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. Bailey raises specialty cut flowers, supplying farmers' markets and florists, as well as providing full service wedding and event design. So it's not the plug producers who are raising my input costs every year. They're going to be fine. 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. That seed is really expensive. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. Roseanne that I mentioned earlier is in the browns, series of browns and greens and dark purples. The breeders are always improving them and coming in a wider and wider range of colors and bloom groups. I don't see it very oftenat all. 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. The stems are clean, they don't foul the water quickly, they're just kind of a model cut flower in my opinion. But on the right, you'll see all those labels on the trays. Keep it in the cooler. And one of the Celeb whites. - The Gardener's Workshop Log In It'll pay for itself tenfold. I would pull that plant out. So, 38 seemed always kind of safe temperature for us. I don't personally see an advantage to planting in the fall. Petals Farm, 592 Fairgrounds Road, West Kingston, RI, 02892, United States petalsfarmri@gmail.com . Look, it'd be great if you if you can do that. These tall stems with large heavy flowers topple easily. 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! The lower number is going to have bigger plugs. 2.9K views, 69 likes, 36 loves, 48 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from The Gardener's Workshop: Farmer Bailey Plugs have arrived! If you don't pinch, you get one stem at a time, but much larger. Moniek's work harmonizes the avant-garde with the inherent grace of nature. BH: I'm sure, yeah, Im a bad salesman, I should have tried to promote myself more. The safety net makes me unafraid to take risks with our little seed starting experiment. Endless Summer hydrangeas. There are a total of 3, 50-cell trays. Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. Soil steaming has also been used, but it is a cumbersome process that generally uses significant amounts of petroleum to accomplish, so it is also not often carried out. It'll just help you help you sleep a little better at night. So, if you read up on blossom end rot in tomatoes, that's kind of the most classic example of calcium deficiency. The thing with lisianthus is, it takesus 12 weeks to grow them, so we need your order 13 or more weeks beforeyou want them. And is that true? They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. You might trim off some dead flowers, but they're going to keep opening new buds, so I don't think like a tulip or a lily you have to cut that on the day it is ready and that's just not the case with lisianthus. But with us, we went for one great stem per season per plant. Farmer Bailey Plugs for Flower Farmers has 2,520 members. CF: I'm also going to drop in your Instagram for folks to follow along if they need a little eye candy, flower eye candy, flower candy, whatever that is, because you do have some gorgeous photos and that's a great way for folks to engage with yourbusiness. Now you see my drip tape there. So just that you know a little bit of protection from the wind does make any plant grow taller, so it's not just lisianthus. 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. Give them some protection, and, it really just comes down to that. Wait until you're in your coolest part of your season and days are short. It's just a lot of steps that they're not really interested in, and also the worldwide demand is already outstripping supply. The biofungicides are, you know, they're an organic product, kind of. Sow 12-13 weeks in deep cell packs before last frost. Our product line includes greenhouse plants, plugs, seeds, nursery stock, hardgoods, and more. Start by sowing seed in late winter to spring. How do you install your support netting? All of our plugs are grown to order, and we've established that they take 12 weeks to grow, so make sure you order them 4 or 5 months before you intend to plant them. They are assisted by our frigid temps and naturalize quickly if they have well draining, sandy soil. Lisianthus can handle cold. I chose Celeb - Honey Pink to trial this year. We have a small operation and we're trying to figure out how to make things work for us. And, this is actually in Japan. Our lisianthus seeds were sown 2 seeds to a cell, uncovered,in deep-root 50-cell trays. Because I did go to University of Kentucky, graduated uh, well, I graduated in 2000. This group is for professional growers only. Much love,Sweet Girl :D Transcript for Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey. So when you get them, are you getting a bigger plug size when ordering a tray of 50 vs 100? 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. Yes - lisianthus plugs were bought from Farmer Bailey, who contracts with Gro N Sell, and were not grown organically. Make sure your soil is well irrigated before you plant. There's kind of a trade-off. It's actually our top our top selling variety for a series. Ask around - other people in your own area if you can maybe combine your orders together. So, the plastic mulch kind of closes around the plant after you plant. And then after about 10 days, or two weeks, you see a little sprout like this. Additional outdoor areas for seasonal growing of mums, asters, flowering kale, and perennials comprise another 8.3 acres. 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. Yeah, our neighbors shoot all of our deer so we don't seem to have any around and never had a problem with it. Overhead water them for at least two weeks after you plant. It's a great idea to keep a little buffer around. If you do not pinch you will get fewer but larger stems. Let's dive in. Maybe you pay $10.00, but then you understand what you're dealing with and you're going to know how to treat it. Zinnias maybe not, but Lisianthus, use a clean tray. So, I had the fortune of going to Japan in 2019. Most of the peat-based medias are sterile and we're still using peat in the US. Really warm, really humid. . They get taller or the flowers get bigger. Lisis need a cool start to life. Do you have any tips on heat tolerant varieties or justtips for them? So, without that disclosure, we can never get that certified as organic. Good. The plants just have more resources. Thanks for taking the guesswork out of starting these from seed!, "This year I invested in virus free (Cafe au Lait dahlia) cuttings from Farmer Bailey and they are spectacular! Available Now trays are ready to ship and cannot be held. 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. I think Vermont compost has some donkey manure and chicken manure in it as well as, you know, municipal compost. Maybe you want 8 leaves before you pinch out the tip. Using a remay type frost blanket is a great way to help your plugs adjust to the real world. We would grow many thousands of sweet peas each year. The huge range of colors, these misty pink and green are just a barely pink. Don't cut it when that first flower opens. We offer Lisianthus in 128 and 216 cell trays, sold as 125 and 210. Very cold, not unheard of to see -35 up there, where we ended up, wefound out that sweet peas did really well for us. Always great to see you and have a great sales season. This was such an informative webinar. He's going to be covering Lisianthus, talking about production for cut flower growers. And then kind of as a last-ditch effort around your last frost, try some 3s and 4s and, you know, give them some shade. 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. Wash your trays. If they are mature enough they will continue to open in the vase. The Japanese growers are really doing the best in doing the most with this. Liset, the farmer running the stand, started flower farming in 2019 and has expanded to growing veggies as well. So weeding, and if you're going to use fabric or plastic, do you have a favorite? Let me show you somedifferent groups of lisianthus that come in a lot of different shapes and styles. These tiny seedlings are also quite delicate, and one bad day can kill them. I don't know. I only know of one who is sort of organic. 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. Its not related to the amount of calcium in the soil, it's just a matter of keeping uniform moisture in the soil so the plant can always be moving those nutrients around. If you plant them into hot soil they will rosette, so they're you know they're from southern and southwestern places. BH: I don't think I have photos of it. So, Gro N Sell ships in these boxes. Next time, I'll sow just one seed per cell. I mean, it's so versatile. Keeping this strip open reduces incidence of fusarium troubles. Not many people are, especially in Kentucky, you can ignore this part. But if you're selling into a premium florist market, I recommend not pinching because you're just going to get bigger stems. 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. But you see what a cool climate will get you in terms of sweet peas. Another little trick I've learned, don't put your plug tray on the ground when it arrives. These are probably best in tunnels. They talk your language, so I'm going to share those results real quick. We'll see if that make any difference. Located in Chalfont, PA, our three acre facility houses a large variety of plug and liner trays, annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and specialty products. OK, fantastic. Do you see benefits of one over the other? They do best when given 2-3 weeks where soil is below 55F before summer conditions warm up. Blues and lavenders for some reason show more spotting than the other colors. It can be hard not to do what you think is "the right thing" for all of your plants. We are going to hold all the questions until the end just so that we can get through the presentation. It must be receiving enough light intensity, again, easily provided in summer. The Blini is really small. Even these are not foolproof, but they do offer some level of protection. 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. And this is really a new crop. It's really pleasing. If you see plants that suddenly wilt or turn brown, suspect fusarium. So, I know, just to bring up, Lisa Mason Ziegler, again, I know she loves that kind of corn starch based stuff. Fusarium is probably already on your property. Don't plant up in the same place every year. FD: When you're doing crop rotation, how long do you wait to plant in that space again with the same crop? 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. Well,theirs wasn't - they didn't understand the need for these. So, two weeks. Transplant within 1 week of arrival, or bump up into 50 or 72 cell trays if immediate transplanting is not possible. So are the sweet peas. Let me get to my presentation here. That's just 12 weeks to produce a tiny littleplug and if you're giving them, you know, subpar conditions,you're looking at 14 or 16 weeks that you have to tend to this thing. ThisCeleb series from Japan. All right. We typically order about 1500-2000 lisianthus plugs each season from Gro 'n Sell. I've never personally seen it myself. 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. That is more than sufficient. You know nitrogen produces leaves generally, and it's usually the nutrient that's in shortest supply. It alljust kind of depends on your own conditions. It's usually free or low cost. 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. All plugs are produced and shipped by Gro 'n Sell in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA. They can take a frost. BH: Yes. Water, even if it is moistsoil, water again. Unfortunately it is ubiquitous, being found at some level in most natural soils. FD: Bailey, do you have an opinion about holding temperatures for post-harvest? Roseanne Black Pearl, image from Johnny's Selected Seeds, Mariachi Pure White, image from Johnny's Selected Seeds. That's great foryou Kentucky growers with your limestone soils. Alright, talked about removing that first bud. As long as it's a sterilemedia. It's been, a year or two since we've seen each other, so it was great to have you here. And then look to the right - that's probably about four weeks later, you start to see - you can actually start seeing the green. So, for them to pull seed out of their stream, you know to ship it raw to be pelleted in the US. You know, to further compound that, it can be difficult to communicate with Japan because of the language barrier. This is, well, this is my production in Vermont, but this is something they do in Japan. Everyone's conditions are different, but just remember that cool start requirement and ample water in the early weeks and you'll be safe. Farmer Bailey is a wholesale firm brokering the sale of plugs to professional cut flower growers. Lisianthus can be planted quite close together. 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. So low tunnel is going to betoo short in most cases, you need a tall low tunnel. So, you know what's so great about it? Give them a good drink and a good feeding at that time. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. Just big flowers, long stems. I have made this mistake enough times to last a lifetime. Instructions for growing lisanthus say to both keep the seeds damp during the germination period and provide good air circulation. The higher number smaller plugs. Now you can pinch once that thing has started to grow. There are often 3 or 4 of these large buds, and I wait until these are open to harvest. Learning how to grow these more challenging plants (lisianthus) on . Kentucky is hard because it - you have really cold winters then you get hot really fastin the springtime. Group 1 Lisianthus will enter their flowering stage (reproductive stage) earlier than Group 2 plants, followed by Group 3 and Group 4. I would also pull around - pull out those other eight plants near that plant because it may have already spread to those. CF: Oh good. 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. I'm just going to breeze through these. The thing is, that stuff has gone up in price300- 400%, you know. We have also succeeded with direct planting of plugs into soil. Then you're just leaving a lot of room for weed seeds to germinate. An increasingly wide range of colors, shapes and sizes. Available Now trays (if any) are listed on Fridays around Noon ET. The lisianthus plugs are especially amazing! This group is for professional growers only. 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. 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. 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. AS: Awesome, can you talk to us a little bit about feeding, especially for in Kentucky where we can get that second flush. And, we know there will be a lot more questions than we can get answered, so feel free to go ahead and drop your questions in the chat or in the Q&A. So generally you see one flower open and then maybe 10 days later you'll see four flowers open. I always had trouble planting in the plastic with burnt holes. 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. I like them all though. I have friends that don't use support netting and I am deeply suspicious of them! Use your fish emulsion and your seaweed, whatever it is you're using. As well as, you know, we did bits of other things. I ordered from Farmer Bailey (www.farmerbailey.com) and they come from the Gro n' Sell program. That'll spot your petals. Relatively drought tolerant once established. Even in plain clean water, Lisianthus should last well more than a week. 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. Welcome back to the Barn Bulletin. Because then you have these kind of awkward holes in your bed. But they're really not picky as long as you have just kind of a, you know, a general all-purpose amount of fertilizer in the soil. Thank you for watching. Asking about a favorite child, right? Not very complicated. It can be hard not to do what you think is "the right thing" for all of . BH: We always kept our cooler at38 and that seems perfect. There's a grower that grows 60 million stems a week. 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. 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. There's a kind of a natural stopping point. So, if you're cutting its flower off, it's going to try again. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. I know you mentioned it earlier that you can'tuse the driptape, but what is the best way to water your plugs at transplant? So, whatever you need to do to keep your weeds under control. Now there's a lot of workshops out there. I prefer to grow all Lisianthus in a tunnel, but for field growing, perhaps avoid the big ruffled types. The chat we'll be monitoring. Fantastic plugs! Usually in the moist prairies and along streamsides that might get dry in the summer, but they put down really deep roots so they can always find that moisture in their native environment. And, you know if you have a plant that's jostling around all the time, it's going to be stockier and shorter. Find your state's cooperative extension here. And that is something you really need to be able to do. Powered by Shopify. "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! 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. This year I ordered lisianthus plugs from Farmer Bailey. There is no advantage to planting in the fall for growers in the more northerly 80% of the US. We have very dry air during the winter, so I've elected to dome them and at least keep them damp. So, rule of thumb is to order before Thanksgiving, which I believe is this week. 30-40". And then as far as kind of how people describe themselves, the majority more than, well, almost 70% are growers. Kind of the newest and maybe the most popular types, come into the market now with all the fringe types. Your source for growing guides, cultural information, industry insight, farmer profiles, and so much more! Lisianthus are notoriously difficult, grow very slowly, and can be prone to algae problems. Yeah, as I mentioned before, if you pinch, you're going to get more stems, but they're going to be smaller. They have LED lights up there. Make sure you leave lots of questions. First Editions plants and shrubs. Yeah, alright, well thank you so much. You can't quite see anything in there because of the fog. Today is January 15. We'll get into proper planting time in just a moment. The Breeders in Japan didnt understand what we wanted in the US. You know, for a corsage or boutonniere and then harvest your stem later when you have at least three flowers open. 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. March 23, 2022. professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. If they sense it's getting really hot, they decide that they're not going to flower this year. . This spring we are building up a number of our beds to help with the problem. Cut them uniformly across the bed. The wider you space them, the larger your plants will be. Once they are up and growing they are very tolerant of heat as long as they are accessing water somewhere in the soil. Yeah, these are all lisianthus heading out to Farmer Bailey customers all over the country. Val is one of my great friends, so I'm going to see her next Sunday, I think. I'm working with Mariachi Pure White (a Group 2 lisianthus variety recommended to me by Vanessa at TarrNation Flower Farm) and Roseanne Black Pearl- a Group 1 variety. Two of the trays have only Mariachi Pure White seeds. It's my first year growing Lisianthus, so hopefully I have a successful crop! Her parents' farms is home to 20 acres of fresh fruit, all of which is available at the farm stand. And like you said, not justlooking at random information, but being sure to look at expert information that's out there from the universities and experienced growers and the Cut Flower Association. Bio Fungicide products such as RootShield, Actinovate and PreFence offer some help in battling fusarium as they attach to the roots before they are exposed to the pathogens and provide a protective layer. I don't know a lot of people who are reliably overwintering year after year. They don't mind ita little cool to start with. That's the facility that I work with. Most people don't have that capability, it's costly. BH: Alright thanks Cindy. I'll try to take the lids off a couple of times a day. Remove first bud to allow several blooms to open before cutting. I have also had good luck using some conventional fungicides labeled for drenching greenhouse crops, and have achieved good preventive control of fusarium. Welcome! Update: January 25: We started to see the very first tiny little lisianthus sprouts in the tray on the heat mat this morning. I don't offhand recall his particular findings on cold storage of lisianthus, but 38. Just like humans, some Lisianthus varieties are genetically programmed to enter their reproductive phase earlier or later than others. Lisianthus prefers to be planted 4-6 weeks prior to your last frost date. If planting outside, I would maybe move that to two or four weeks before the last frost. So, we started Ardelia Farm in 2014. I would use the silver mulch to keep the soil cool to make sure I wasn't getting rosetting and I never had a problem with it. So, this is at Gro n Sell. It must be warm enough (general summer conditions are warm enough), it must be receiving "long days" like we all have in summer. This is the Roseanne series. The next critical stage in the life of Lisianthus is when it is transplanted. So, group 1s I would get those planted, you know, early very early in the season. They only took me 4 years (and finally buying plugs from Farmer Bailey ) to successfully grow an amazing crop!". Dont leave your tray of plugs outside if it's going to be 20 degrees because the roots are very vulnerable when they're sitting on top of the ground. That seemed a lot higher than I remembered, so I checked my records and, guess what? Especially for this crop. If you are a home gardener interested in growing lisianthus, you'll have better luck looking in your local community for an outstanding, independent garden center and asking them if they carry lisianthus. I was satisfied with the packaging and status of the plants. You can probably cut it in two weeks. This was maybe my first attempt at Lisianthus and you see it worked out pretty well. They're not going to know, and a lot of things have very similar symptoms. It generally occurs in prairie or plains type settings, but most often in close proximity to stream beds and seasonally marshy areas. In the field, plant 2-4 weeks before last frost. 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. For the February post on lisianthus progress, click here. Wild Lisianthus often grows in sandy conditions, whereas I have grown it on amended heavy clay for years with good results. 128 and 216's - those are both sizes of plug trays that just tells you how many plugs are in that tray. There's some more. 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. And there's not a lot of flowers that do that. So, I think it's really a great professional organization. For growers in Florida and the Gulf Coast to Texas, fall planting will work well. We really appreciate it and we'll follow up with all the folks in the webinar and we'll go ahead and closeout. We'll be sure to get right back to you. FD: Bailey, can you talk about watering seedlings a little bit? If I'm starting something in December that I have to keep an eye on until March or April, well, that really cuts into my travel time. 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