Notes
10–12 week 128s. Do not bury the crown. One Hortonova layer. Cut at marshmallow — buds finish in the vase.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Mariachi Blue
Lisianthus · Eustoma grandiflorum
DTM
124 d
154 d occupancy · tender
Rows
4
6 in in-row
Density
8
plants / bed-ft
Yield
7
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$13.86
$2.25 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Focal · 24 in stem
- Support netting
- 1-layer Hortonova · 6 in mesh · 14 in
- Pinch
- 6 in · leave 3 nodes · +14 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Marshmallow · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 4 / plant · 7 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Chrysal holding · vase 12 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 124 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 80 d
- Germination
- 14 d
- Germ temp
- 68°F – 80°F (opt 75°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 4
- In-row
- 6 in
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 8
- Plants / 50 ft
- 400
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 124 d
- Holding
- 18 d
- Occupancy
- 154 d
- Multicut
- yes · 4 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 7
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.25 / $2.25
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
- 1.6 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
- Gentianaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-07-09
- First greenhouse
- 2026-01-25
- First harvest
- 2026-08-17
- Successions that fit
- 0 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 163 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 471 seeds · 400 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $385.00 / $693.00
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel