Notes
Jester. Cut when the spike is fully emerged, before pollen sheds. Texture spike.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Jester
Ornamental millet · Pennisetum glaucum
DTM
70 d
96 d occupancy · tender
Rows
2
12 in in-row
Density
2
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.97
$1.35 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Spike · 26 in stem
- Support netting
- None — self-supporting
- Pinch
- Do not pinch
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 5 d
- Stem yield
- 3 / plant · 4 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 10 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 70 d field-to-cut
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 21 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 68°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 2
- Plants / 50 ft
- 100
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 70 d
- Holding
- 16 d
- Occupancy
- 96 d
- Multicut
- yes · 3 cuts · 5 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
- 0.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.70 / $1.35
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 1.1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 85.7
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.5 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.35 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.8 / 0.2 / 1 lb
- Family
- Poaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-01
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-25
- First harvest
- 2026-06-24
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 170 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 118 seeds · 100 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $128.80 / $248.40
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel