Notes
Billy buttons. Cut when balls are fully colored. Dries. Golf Beauty.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Golf Beauty
Craspedia · Craspedia globosa
DTM
95 d
136 d occupancy · tender
Rows
3
6 in in-row
Density
6
plants / bed-ft
Yield
8
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.89
$0.80 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Filler · 18 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- Do not pinch
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 6 / plant · 8 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 14 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 95 d field-to-cut
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 42 d
- Germination
- 12 d
- Germ temp
- 65°F – 85°F (opt 75°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 6 in
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 6
- Plants / 50 ft
- 300
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 95 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 136 d
- Multicut
- yes · 6 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 8
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.40 / $0.80
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.85 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 66.2
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.25 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.4 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.1 / 0.7 lb
- Family
- Asteraceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-07
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-04
- First harvest
- 2026-07-19
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 340 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 353 seeds · 300 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $147.20 / $294.40
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel