I got these photos from wildflower.org. 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. Give them some protection, and, it really just comes down to that. Their structures are not elaborate or fancy. I have friends that don't use support netting and I am deeply suspicious of them! Well, maybe I'll see you on the road somewhere way back here. 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. The other trays will be kept at room temp around 70-75F. So, if youknow, any plant really. Something really inspirational the way they grow things there. The plants just have more resources. Okay these rose types sometimes look a little bit like ranunculus too. I think that's a bitunusual, I think you're really lucky if you do that, but I've heard of it. . It'll last, you know, even if you keep it in the cooler two weeks, it'll probably last another. It'll pay for itself tenfold. BH: Yeah, you want to be planting out in probablyearly January, whatever your coolest part of the year is. So that's in January. It does have a really great rose shape that was sort of the initial selling point for lisianthus. 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. Sweet peas galore the top crop at Ardelia Farm & Co. They tend to be slightly smaller flowers, but you get more flowers on the stem when you start. The plant brands customers ask for by name. Available Now trays are listed on Friday and usually ship the following Monday. Use a heat matt to provide some bottom heat. BH: OK, all right, I'm Bailey Hale. Voyage. 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. 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. The seeds were surface sown and then misted gently with a spray bottle. It must be warm enough (general summer conditions are warm enough), it must be receiving "long days" like we all have in summer. Umm, yeah, why? So, when should you transplant these things? 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. I forgot they were even in the cooler and just in a pinch and I needed something. The tiny buds won't develop after cutting, and some growers trim them off (common in Japan) but most just leave them on. Today is January 15. Start by sowing seed in late winter to spring. I think there's a lot of people who, especially organic growers, just kindof plan that like I'm not going to use chemicals, so they don't get fed. We have also succeeded with direct planting of plugs into soil. It looks brown. I think they need a warmer or more humid season like you would have in Kentucky to really breakdown. That's the facility that I work with. And there are some single petaled ones. lisianthus plugs farmer bailey. Let me get to my presentation here. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . So, they grow them in I think about 1-meter beds. Ht. Yeah, alright, well thank you so much. All right. I would also pull around - pull out those other eight plants near that plant because it may have already spread to those. 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. Cool, do you use manure on your lisianthus? To start-- these are not scientific trials sponsored by seed companies or anything like that. So, they're really great for boutonniere work especially. 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). 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. 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. I have the challenge of deciding how and if I'll divide and transplant the seedlings once they get larger to save as many as possible. They grow them really fast. We all recall the "early bloomers" in school when we were in our adolescent years and this is a good analogy. Once you see theyre growing on their own, that means they put out roots. Flower plug trays ship nationwide. BH: Well, fabric is plastic. As with all fungal issues, managing humidity and air flow will also reduce the spread of fusarium. I prefer to grow all Lisianthus in a tunnel, but for field growing, perhaps avoid the big ruffled types. Relatively drought tolerant once established. - If you suspect fusarium or see any unexplained disease issue, take a sample and send it to your state plant pathologist. Testing is usually free or low cost, and will save you the headache of guessing what pathogen you are actually dealing with. 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. That's another way to stagger your harvests. That said if your plugs arrive and you are not ready for them, I recommend bumping up into a 50 or 72 cell tray. And then as far as kind of how people describe themselves, the majority more than, well, almost 70% are growers. South CentralAlabama, Arkansas, Arizona - you can read the states there - into Mexico. Once the seeds germinate, remove them from the heat matt. If you are close to another grower that is also ordering, consider consolidating your orders to save on custom freight. Shop Sweet Pea Seeds Welcome to Ardelia Farm We're Thomas & Bailey. The best way to learn about a cultivated plant is to look at its wild habitat. So what we do is, we sell plugs. 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. We all recall the "early bloomers" in school when we were in our adolescent years and this is a good analogy. So, I had the fortune of going to Japan in 2019. They have the reputation for being more finicky. Really any cut flower in a tunnel is going to be a bit taller than its field grown counterpart. That's great foryou Kentucky growers with your limestone soils. FD: OK, here's a good one. Like I said, they're picking 1.5 million stems per week. The only rule is that Lisianthus wants to start life in cool soil. Some of the first ones on the market were these kind of doubles and semi doubles, usually with an open center. FD: Let's see, what's the most important thing we can do to make sure you get strong stems? Moniek's work harmonizes the avant-garde with the inherent grace of nature. They're not getting the light intensity to trigger flowering yet. So generally you see one flower open and then maybe 10 days later you'll see four flowers open. Don't cut it when that first flower opens. Use your fish emulsion and your seaweed, whatever it is you're using. It's quite, very like, very similar to the wild type, but also comes in a pink and a white. They'll give you much better results than not treating if you have problems with these fungi. I'm so excited to unbox my Lisianthus starts from Farmer Bailey. Zinnias maybe not, but Lisianthus, use a clean tray. We also leave a 6-12" gap between varieties when planting our Lisianthus beds to provide a physical barrier if and when fusarium strikes. This said there is no reason to withhold water if you have sustainable access to irrigation water. So are the sweet peas. 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. If you plant them into hot soil they will rosette, so they're you know they're from southern and southwestern places. And the answer is no, but let metell you why, so the majority ofthe seed is produced in Japan. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. BH: Great. Yes, you can reuse it, and that's great. 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 worked as a floral designer in Philadelphia for more than a decade, and then I got the urge to farm so we farmed in New York state for a bit and then we moved up in the northeast corner of Vermont called the Northeast Kingdom. Our perennial store for commercial growers is now closed for the summer season. Clear out the soil in the center of the pot. Next year, I'll experiment with different kinds of soil-less starting mixes and see if one works better than the others. 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. OK, so lisianthus has a bad reputation for being difficult, but it's really only difficult when you are growing it from seed. 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. It can last two or three weeks. Transcript for Virtual Cut Flower Short Course on Learning Lisianthus with Farmer Bailey. Also, the ASCFG has a whole book on post-harvest handling. It's my first year growing Lisianthus, so hopefully I have a successful crop! Fusarium is ubiquitous in most environments, and will affect most growers from time to time. So again, really want to thank you for being on. How do you install your support netting? In the wetter and cooler times of year wild Lisianthus seed germinates and gets established. I like to remove this first bud when I see it, allowing the plant's carbohydrates to flow to the next series of buds. Keeping this strip open reduces incidence of fusarium troubles. Sorry, that's a little bit blurry, but you get the idea. So like I said, these growers in Holland are producing 60 million stems per farm, and there's dozens of similar farms. At least it's evening here in the Eastern Time zone. I prefer to not pinch, resulting in taller stems with larger flowers. A lot of people selling information that they have learned from the ASCFG, but it's available to you for the low price of $200.00 per year. Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. That's really the first step - just keeping your humidity high. I think that's all the slides I have for you at the moment. Stem length is outrageous and such beautiful blooms! A friend of mine planted some in July in Tennessee and every one of them rosetted. I really, really enjoy helping you all learn and also enjoy finding new flowers for you. This is a recorded meeting and presentation from Monday, November 21st, 2022 on Learning Lisianthus featuring guest speaker Farmer Bailey (https://farmerbailey.com/). Every state has a land grant university, and should have a plant pathologist on staff, funded by your tax dollars. But I would guarantee you all have some questions. I haven't done much with low tunnels, I mean my lisianthus get 36 to 40 inches tall. 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. So, this is a really great time to remember to order your plugs. So just remember to plant in the spring. Sakata is one of the main major breeders of lisianthus in Japan. They did well, and I hope to see more of them this spring, now that they have had a chance to drop their own seeds. The greatest number of Available Now trays will be listed Weeks . It's coming from a sterile greenhouse, so you should put it on a bench or on a clean surface, you know, until you're absolutely ready to transplant, because you can even on the ground in your driveway, you can pick up fusarium on the bottom of your plug tray and you'll start seeing plugs drop off before you even plant them. Now the long wait begins. But, if you just spend a little time there's a part of the website - the first thing you see would be like hey, are you new? I was satisfied with the packaging and status of the plants. You see our tunnels. And this is really a new crop. If you do a Google search for SakataCulture Sheet or Sakata production tutorial, you'll find a really in-depth document that I recommend you check out. Get directions to \"Sweet Girl Farms\" by searching them on google maps or apple maps. BH: Yeah, we love, we love Val. I don't know a lot of people who are reliably overwintering year after year. Because then you have these kind of awkward holes in your bed. 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. Why wouldn't you want to grow that? Located in Chalfont, PA, our three acre facility houses a large variety of plug and liner trays, annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables, and specialty products. They've been bred for their, you know, rounded petals. 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. and this last one is a little hard to define, as it varies by variety. But that's OK! It's been, a year or two since we've seen each other, so it was great to have you here. 14-21 days of vase life is not uncommon. It has very deep roots so even in the dry heat of summer it can find moisture deep in the soil to keep it growing and blooming. I'll tell you how that kind of came to be. All plugs are grown to order at Gro 'n Sell. 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. For the March post on lisianthus progress, click here. I do this in Vermont just because usually we're waiting for snow to melt and we want something to do. 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. The Q&A well be monitoring. . Let me just go on a tangent here. Plugs and liners are grown to order, and you can choose from thousands of varieties of annuals and perennials for bedding plant, container and cut flower sales. Why would that be? 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. I was justin Holland last week. In long summer locations, growers may be able to harvest 2 or 3 flushes of bloom. I recommend using 2 layers of support netting with Lisianthus. So you know tomatoes and zinnias, you might want to plant 55 and above. Of course plenty of folks do well with them outside so I leave this up to you. Protect from temperatures below 20F. So cut them, cut them hard. I think unless you're seeing just a really bad Fusarium problem, you should be OK with that. AS: There's you! You're going to pay for labor. 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. Lisianthus, Voyage First Love William Dam Seeds is a family run company located just outside of Dundas, Ontario, Canada. 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, think about it. I've never personally seen it myself. 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. Should you do it? You know, there are some things grown in half trays. BH: I would say they're pretty flexible. 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. It can no longer drink because the roots are not functioning. (Sterile potting mixes are of no concern.). So, without that disclosure, we can never get that certified as organic. Just like humans, some Lisianthus varieties are genetically programmed to enter their reproductive phase earlier or later than others. And here they are in a couple of colors. He's going to be covering Lisianthus, talking about production for cut flower growers. The people who make the pellet, the pelleting technology, they will not tell you what's in it. Farmer Bailey, he's also known as. In the wild, Lisianthus can become a short lived perennial when conditions are favorable. We've got a great lineup scheduled. That's the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center. But you can see the plant in the middle. So, get some get those horizontal airflow fans going, but also leave a little room between your plants. Not many people are, especially in Kentucky, you can ignore this part. And, you know if you have a plant that's jostling around all the time, it's going to be stockier and shorter. I mean, it might work for some people if you have really strong lights and you're just really, a careful waterer, or you never give them a bad dayin their lives. So, feel free to drop any questions in the chat and the Q&A and we will work on answering those when we get to the end of the webinar. 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. Also, if you order more than 30 trays at a time, you can get pallet delivery and that's great because pallets don't tip over in transit. There was our woody field. I'm sure there are many of you out there who understand! Very close to Canada. Sorry, that photo quality is not the best, but you get the idea. We would grow many thousands of sweet peas each year. Your credit card will charged at the time of checkout. They're really prone to getting rootbound, so go on and put them in a bigger tray. I take the covers off for several hours or over night once and a while (have to be sure the office doors are shut so our two kittens don't foil my plans!). 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. 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. Just a holding solution in your cooler. You may also see botrytis. There is a reason - other than that it's my business - that I think you should be growing lisianthus from plugs. Do you want to answer a few more, Bailey, or do you havea cut off time? Now, it uses half inch electrical EMT conduit. 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. The higher number smaller plugs. Well, most of that seed coming from Japan is already pelleted by the time it gets to the US. The second flush will branch, so you probably get maybe three or four on your second flush. If you haven't tried to grow Lisianthus from seed, I encourage you to try it. Keep it in the cooler. So weeding, and if you're going to use fabric or plastic, do you have a favorite? I thought it was gonna be a one-year thing and now it's my full time job and I've got three people helping me and I feel like we're just getting started supplying the small- to medium- scale American cut flower grower. This is a recorded meeting and presentation from Monday, November 21st, 2022 on Learning Lisianthus featuring guest speaker Farmer Bailey ( https://farmerbailey.com/). 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. 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. They generally grow mainly in the central part of the US. Farmer Bailey describes this series as "very double fringed" love it yet "is less tolerant of less than ideal conditions . I won't say anything about Cindy. Yeah, these are all lisianthus heading out to Farmer Bailey customers all over the country. All orders are subject to seed availability. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. We really appreciate it. They are coming to us through Farmer Bailey at Ardelia farm. 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. Yeah, the Celeb is probably my favorite series. 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. That is more than sufficient. It wasn't good for her. 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. I always had trouble planting in the plastic with burnt holes. We had about a half acre in tunnel production. Eustoma is the botanical name. It also just gives me a bigger, easier to handle transplant a little later in the season. There's some more. March 23, 2022. professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. Most of the instructions I am finding online are similar. They're a high value crop. Drench plugs with a biofungicide (Rootshield, Actinovate, PreFence, etc.) 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 happen to be in her house right now because she has good Wi-Fi. 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 was my first year ordering and I will order again if I grow Lizzy's next year. The Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, ASCFG. I also, when I'm planting, I leave a 6 inch gap between each variety. That seed is really expensive. I only know of one who is sort of organic. Don't hold your lisianthus in a tray. Gro 'n Sell is a large facility, but they do fill up in the height of the growing season, and some items may go out of stock without notice. The middle of beds have the poorest airflow and humidity tends to accumulate more in the middle of a bed. So, I would get in there. The regular temp for the space (my office) is around 60-65F, so I'm feeling good about the location for our experiment. It's the same price as 2007 and not much higher than 2005. 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'll try to take the lids off a couple of times a day. So, the plastic mulch kind of closes around the plant after you plant. 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. 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. All plugs are produced and shipped by Gro 'n Sell in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, USA. 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. You can't quite tell, but at the other end there's a boom sprayer that's irrigating at just the moment that plug starts to dry out. I recommend 8 per square foot. This creates perfect conditions for fungal infection. As a safeguard, we also ordered lisianthus plugs- a lot of them. Another little trick I've learned, don't put your plug tray on the ground when it arrives. This "moat" of unplanted soils seems to offer a sufficient barrier when trying to manage small outbreaks. It's Nicole from Flower Hill Farm- this week my lisianthus plants are nine weeks old. Welcome back to the Barn Bulletin. Big healthy plants covered in mostly champagne blooms!, " I have several favorites but strawflowers are way up there! I don't offhand recall his particular findings on cold storage of lisianthus, but 38. Most people don't have that capability, it's costly. The Japanese growers are really doing the best in doing the most with this. Go to a conference when you can, it's a really great place to network. Fusarium is the biggest disease facing Lisianthus. 2022 Plug Program. The cell trays are on a rack by a window in our home office under fluorescent lights. The stems are clean, they don't foul the water quickly, they're just kind of a model cut flower in my opinion. Kentucky should be a great place to get a second or maybe even third flush. It's all super, super automated. There's a grower that grows 60 million stems a week. We get lots of lots of questions all the time about diseases and my first thing is, here's my hunch, but also go get that tested. Very long lasting. [1] 1 tray is 1/2 Roseanne Black Pearl and 1/2 Mariachi Pure White. 30-40". So, if you'd just take a minute to fill out those 3 poll questions, that would be great. But, if you're selling to a premium florist market, you might want to not pinch it so you can get that full long stem. Place them on a clean bench. BH: We always kept our cooler at38 and that seems perfect. They're just such slow growers. 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. If you live in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, you may choose. It also just gives me one more little firewall in case I get Fusarium ripping down a bed. 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. They talk your language, so I'm going to share those results real quick. We monitor your orders at Gro 'n Sell, and notify you as soon as we have any hint that an item may not be available. In doing so, I was able to get access to new varieties I couldn't have gotten by purchasing seeds. Good evening everyone. Not very complicated. The temperature is perfect all the time. You're just asking for it, you're stressing the plants, so plant into moist soil. 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. Val is one of my great friends, so I'm going to see her next Sunday, I think. !, Now I want a whole field of lisianthus! They evaluated, like, total profits based onpinching or not pinching, and I think per square foot they saw you could make more money with pinched plants than without. I turned off the heat mat and space heater in the room. Really hard to do outside of a place without those cool summers. What's so great about Lisianthus? More importantly, just keep putting organic matter in your soil. Well, I don't think they do. Let's say most growers order plugs, of any size. This is to allow the necessary time for Gro 'n Sell to produce your plugs. I think Vermont compost has some donkey manure and chicken manure in it as well as, you know, municipal compost. We have a small operation and we're trying to figure out how to make things work for us. 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. 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. Keep testing your soil and follow those recommendations. And then you canalso, you know, if you put some kind of frost cloth or Remay over, even if it's a warmer part of the year, you're really keeping a little microclimate. So they're your kind of people, right? 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. I would grow sweet peas and I grow lisianthus because the lisianthus are just better in the tunnel. To Order Plugs & Liners: Download or request the pricelist (s), create your order and scan, e-mail, FAX (877-892-9197) or mail your completed orders to us, along with your billing information OR call us at (800) 544-7938 with your order. I have made this mistake enough times to last a lifetime. Provide a trellis of some sort. 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