Notes
Crested (Chief) or wheat (Celway). No chill below 45°F. Harvest fully developed — they do not open further.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Flamingo Feather
Celosia · Celosia argentea
DTM
90 d
131 d occupancy · tender
Rows
3
9 in in-row
Density
4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
6
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.29
$1.35 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Spike · 22 in stem
- Support netting
- 1-layer Hortonova · 8 in mesh · 16 in
- Pinch
- 8 in · leave 3 nodes · +10 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 5 / plant · 6 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 10 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 90 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 8 d
- Germ temp
- 70°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 9 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 4
- Plants / 50 ft
- 200
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 90 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 131 d
- Multicut
- yes · 6 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 6
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.70 / $1.35
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 77.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.5 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.35 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.1 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 → 2026-08-12
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-18
- First harvest
- 2026-07-14
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 133 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 236 seeds · 200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $189.00 / $364.50
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel