Notes
Hot Biscuits / Love-Lies-Bleeding. Cut when tassels are fully colored. No chill.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Hot Biscuits
Amaranth · Amaranthus cruentus
DTM
88 d
121 d occupancy · tender
Rows
2
12 in in-row
Density
2
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.40
$1.50 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Spike · 28 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- 10 in · leave 3 nodes · +8 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 5 d
- Stem yield
- 4 / plant · 4 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 8 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 88 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 21 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 65°F – 90°F (opt 75°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 2
- Plants / 50 ft
- 100
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 88 d
- Holding
- 18 d
- Occupancy
- 121 d
- Multicut
- yes · 4 cuts · 5 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 4
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.80 / $1.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1.1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 85.7
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.8 / 0.2 / 1.1 lb
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-14
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-25
- First harvest
- 2026-07-12
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 139 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 118 seeds · 100 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $144.00 / $270.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel