All plugs are custom grown to order by the skilled team of horticulturalists at Gro 'n Sell in Chalfont, PA. First time getting plugs ever and this has made our lives (and marriage) so much easier., All of the plugs weve gotten from you have been gorgeous, thank you for providing an awesome product!, I regret only one thing buying these plugs. FD: When you're doing crop rotation, how long do you wait to plant in that space again with the same crop? Our attention to detail is what sets us apart. Everyone's conditions are different, but just remember that cool start requirement and ample water in the early weeks and you'll be safe. Yeah, I was excited to get that e-mail from you. The lower number is going to have bigger plugs. I was missing some plugs, but received extra of another variety, so be vigilant of what you pay and what is sent to you. 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. These are still series,still available. But again, just wanted to say thank you so much for being with us tonight. The wild version, that tells you so much about what that plant wants to succeed. Most people don't have that capability, it's costly. You can mix other varieties. The Breeders in Japan didnt understand what we wanted in the US. So, calcium is related to strong stems in almost all cut flowers and definitely lisianthus. But for some reason, we couldn't get them in the US and I didn't understand why. Why Choose Gro 'n Sell? Sections of this page. So, I have a 50 or 72 cell tray on hand. 14-21 days of vase life is not uncommon. Yeah, OK, awesome. So, I encourage you to start breeding organic lisianthus and growing organic plugs and let me know when they're ready and I'd be happy to sell them for you. We'll be sure to get right back to you. CF: And while you're doing that, I'm going to go ahead and introduce our speaker just real briefly, and then I'll kind of do a little bit of housekeeping, but I think everybody is excited to have Bailey Hale joining us tonight. Farmer Bailey Perennials Hi there! Lisianthus can handle cold. I'll try to take the lids off a couple of times a day. The lupine I started last year were planted out in some landscaping beds around the house where there is a little bit of a pitch and better drainage. They don't really care where it's coming from,but often drip irrigation is not enoughwhen that plant is little. So you know tomatoes and zinnias, you might want to plant 55 and above. Other than that, I'm happy with the condition the plants arrived in. 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. FD: Bailey, do you have an opinion about holding temperatures for post-harvest? That is more than sufficient. The one on the right is called Little Summer. BH: Can someone confirm that they see this? The cell trays are on a rack by a window in our home office under fluorescent lights. The thing with lisianthus is, it takesus 12 weeks to grow them, so we need your order 13 or more weeks beforeyou want them. We have a small operation and we're trying to figure out how to make things work for us. Theyre so slow growing otherwise. Plugs can dry out quickly due to the small volume of growing medium; check the trays 2 or 3 times daily for watering. from $90.00 Colors: 512 Full Yellow 512 Half Yellow 512 Full White Mix 512 Half White mix 200 Yellow 200 White Mix. I have friends that don't use support netting and I am deeply suspicious of them! So weeding, and if you're going to use fabric or plastic, do you have a favorite? Drip irrigation should do the job once the plugs are established and growing. This winter, we are taking a specific look at lisianthus, delphinium, and craspedia. These are probably best in tunnels. . This is another of our series that we've been doing for cut flower growers in Kentucky, so I am going to put a little poll up before we get started. 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. 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. Lisianthus will not flower in the plug tray like some plants will, it must reach a certain stage of maturity before buds will form. In warmer areas where summers are longer you will probably see a second or even third flush of flowers from your Lisianthus. Go to a conference when you can, it's a really great place to network. Yeah, alright, well thank you so much. History Group created on December 9, 2016 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. Still didn't have enough room even though I brought a whole car. Felicia DAmbrosio: So we had one question about deer. Hardy to 20F in the ground. 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. This is, well, this is my production in Vermont, but this is something they do in Japan. The Q&A well be monitoring. Try em outside. Welcome! I chose Celeb - Honey Pink to trial this year. If planting outside, I would maybe move that to two or four weeks before the last frost. Alright, so this is last week. You want to just kind of step them through the process a little bit? I only know of one who is sort of organic. Yeah, the Celeb is probably my favorite series. We really appreciate it and we'll follow up with all the folks in the webinar and we'll go ahead and closeout. Now with all fungal diseases, airflow is key. It was my first year ordering and I will order again if I grow Lizzy's next year. 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. It's really only at transplant that they are susceptible to rosetting. BH: I'm sure, yeah, Im a bad salesman, I should have tried to promote myself more. Be sure to check out the unusual color varieties, including rich blue and a truly chic pale green. I would also pull around - pull out those other eight plants near that plant because it may have already spread to those. It saves resources. There is a reason - other than that it's my business - that I think you should be growing lisianthus from plugs. The larger the plants get, the deeper their roots have grown and the more tolerant they will be to drought. My recommendation is to always to try several methods and learn from them. March 23, 2022. professional competency areas for student affairs practitioners. So unlike roses, you don't have to grow, you know, your rose bushes for years before you harvest. Much love,Sweet Girl :D There is no right answer. There's some more. But on the right, you'll see all those labels on the trays. Even these are not foolproof, but they do offer some level of protection. OK. It alljust kind of depends on your own conditions. Voyage. We have to try them! See how neat and tidy they doeverything. I mean, if you've got a high tunnel, that's where Id put them. You see even things like astilbe do fine out in the full sun because it is so cool and lots of moisture usually. Don't plant up in the same place every year. Why would that be? Right, so that's kind of how the plugs are produced. Find your state's cooperative extension, Short lived perennial, best treated as an annual. Any orders already placed will ship as planned. BH: So, the trick there is you have to get them in the ground before your soil getshot. We typically order about 1500-2000 lisianthus plugs each season from Gro 'n Sell. Enter store using password: Something that's labeled for, you know, drenching the soil. A trained horticulturist and two-time Philadelphia Flower Show gold medal floral designer (through his former studio MODA Botanica ), Bailey now raises specialty cut flowers for farmers' markets and florists and provides full-service wedding and event design. The webinar is being recorded so we will make it available. 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. We give them wider spacing than they do in Holland, so it's slightly different product, but just really fascinating to see how they're doing it. Overhead water them for at least two weeks after you plant. Garden Centers. This meeting was hosted. 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. Always great to see you and have a great sales season. . This is a recorded meeting and presentation from Monday, November 21st, 2022 on Learning Lisianthus featuring guest speaker Farmer Bailey (https://farmerbailey.com/). The greatest number of Available Now trays will be listed Weeks . Transplant within 1 week of arrival, or bump up into 50 or 72 cell trays if immediate transplanting is not possible. Irrigate as needed, keeping the soil slightly moist. Ready-to-ship 'Available Now' trays are dropping every Friday through Week 15. He's going to be covering Lisianthus, talking about production for cut flower growers. In long summer locations, growers may be able to harvest 2 or 3 flushes of bloom. BH: I think that might be an easier question. The listed germination rate on the packets was 95 and 96%. You have to sort of evaluate is it worthit to have half of them dead, but half are alive? 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. I'll show you a couple slides from Holland in a moment. 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. 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 Available Now trays are ready to ship and cannot be held. Available Now plugs are ready to transplant (or bump up) upon arrival to you. Relatively drought tolerant once established. All shipping rates are approximate and are subject to change. 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. Great news is Lisianthus is really adaptable. That's another way to stagger your harvests. 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. 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. Move to 35-50 degrees in full sun for bulking up (cold snaps down to 20 are fine!) So, if you plant and let me define cool, I would say 55 or below. Harris Seeds partners with many of the country's leading plug and liner grower specialists to provide you the best quality young plants. Some of them are frost free or just generally warm. I get a lot of questions about can you grow organic plugs? You're just asking for it, you're stressing the plants, so plant into moist soil. 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. 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. BH: So, in that case you want to, you know, if you want it to be a uniform flush, you want to harvest most ofyour plants at the same time. I haven't done much with low tunnels, I mean my lisianthus get 36 to 40 inches tall. So, this is really what your plugs should be looking like when they arrive. There's a new one called Vivianna. Next year, I'll experiment with different kinds of soil-less starting mixes and see if one works better than the others. 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. We'll put one of the lisianthus trays on a heat mat with a thermostat set to 80 degrees Fahrenheit during the germination phase. Look, it'd be great if you if you can do that. We'll get into proper planting time in just a moment. 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. I say grow what you like the looks of. That's something you should be doing every year, even if you think you know what's going on with your soil, things can change really quickly, but you're not going to go wrong with organic matter. Even if you think you've got enough rain,water again. Farmer Bailey, hes also known as. Keep testing your soil and follow those recommendations. Best cut with some open flowers and some large buds. Some people even get 3 flushes. It doesn't have many carbohydrates to get it up and running at the beginning stages of life. 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. And, I will say that once I started doing this my Fusarium losses have been much lower. So it's not the plug producers who are raising my input costs every year. They have LED lights up there. Now again, if you have a market for really short stems, you can let that first flower open, cut it out, use it. 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. And then afterwards people thought that I knew something they didn't, so I kept getting all kinds of requests for new products. Have a wonderful summer! This group is for professional growers only. It's differentfor every situation. These tiny seedlings are also quite delicate, and one bad day can kill them. 2023 Farmer Bailey Inc., All rights reserved. Your best defense is to help foster biologically diverse and active soil. I found better control planting into plastic. I don't argue that, but I think the risk might be a little too great considering how expensive the plugs can be. It must be receiving enough light intensity, again, easily provided in summer. You also get lower wind movement in your tunnel. Orders for multiple ship dates must be placed separately. You know, to further compound that, it can be difficult to communicate with Japan because of the language barrier. So, group 1s I would get those planted, you know, early very early in the season. Blues and lavenders for some reason show more spotting than the other colors. You may also see botrytis. So that's how we launched Farmer Bailey. So, whatever you need to do to keep your weeds under control. Val is one of my great friends, so I'm going to see her next Sunday, I think. Also, the ASCFG has a whole book on post-harvest handling. The stems are clean, they don't foul the water quickly, they're just kind of a model cut flower in my opinion. And I talked to a number of brokers and suppliers and everyone just told me,no. If an item goes out of stock, or there is a shipping charge discrepancy, you will be notified via email and refunded promptly. So, I would get in there. It helps me keep my varieties straight. So, at the end of the day, I decided to just use plastic mulch. 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. 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. There's kind of a trade-off. Order your plugs for a date when you know you will be able to plant them directly into the soil. So just raise, you know, put, like I said, use two layers, start them at the ground level. Protect from temperatures below 20F. So, this is at Gro n Sell. I always need at least two layers, and even then I still have trouble sometimes with them being too big and heavy. Never had much problem with it. Keep them mostly above 20, leave them in place. It's not impossible. The lisanthus plugs I ordered are "210" size. BH: Yeah, I haveused compost, cow manure, there's a commercially available compost. Young plants from Wagners are grouped into six different programs: Spring Plugs, Summer/Fall Plugs, Cyclamen Liners, Specialty Florist Liners, Cool Crops Liners, and Prefinished Cyclamen. Northern growers may only expect 1 harvest per crop. Our LP32 plugs are 4.00" deep by 2.22" square and come 32 per to a standard nursery liner. 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