Notes
QIS. Cut when heads are fully colored. Dries. Heat-proof filler.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
QIS Carmine
Gomphrena · Gomphrena globosa
DTM
88 d
144 d occupancy · tender
Rows
3
6 in in-row
Density
6
plants / bed-ft
Yield
12
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$6.07
$0.55 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Filler · 16 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- 6 in · leave 3 nodes · +8 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 10 / plant · 12 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 14 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 88 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
- 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
- 88 d
- Holding
- 28 d
- Occupancy
- 144 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 12
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.2 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.25 / $0.55
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.25 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.5 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.1 / 0.8 lb
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-14
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-18
- First harvest
- 2026-07-12
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 227 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 353 seeds · 300 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $138.00 / $303.60
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel