Notes
Baby Blue. First-year juvenile foliage. Cut pencil-thick stems. Foliage, not bloom.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Baby Blue
Eucalyptus · Eucalyptus pulverulenta
DTM
150 d
240 d occupancy · tender
Rows
2
18 in in-row
Density
1.33
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.36
$2.00 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Foliage · 24 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- 12 in · leave 2 nodes · +0 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 10 d
- Stem yield
- 6 / plant · 4 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 16 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 150 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 56 d
- Germination
- 14 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 80°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 18 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 1.33
- Plants / 50 ft
- 67
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 150 d
- Holding
- 40 d
- Occupancy
- 240 d
- Multicut
- yes · 6 cuts · 10 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
- 0.5 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.10 / $2.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 31.5
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.9 / 0.2 / 1.1 lb
- Family
- Myrtaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-06-13
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-18
- First harvest
- 2026-09-12
- Successions that fit
- 0 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 114 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 79 seeds · 67 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $202.40 / $368.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel