Notes
Indian Summer. Cut as petals unfurl, disk still tight. Heat-capable focal.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Indian Summer
Rudbeckia · Rudbeckia hirta
DTM
95 d
137 d occupancy · moderate
Rows
3
12 in in-row
Density
3
plants / bed-ft
Yield
6
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.81
$1.10 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Focal · 22 in stem
- Support netting
- 1-layer Hortonova · 8 in mesh · 16 in
- Pinch
- 8 in · leave 3 nodes · +10 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Cracked bud · every 3 d
- Stem yield
- 8 / plant · 6 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 8 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 95 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 35 d
- Germination
- 8 d
- Germ temp
- 65°F – 85°F (opt 75°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 3
- Plants / 50 ft
- 150
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 95 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 137 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 3 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Moderate
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 6
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.55 / $1.10
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
- 1.4 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.35 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.7 / 0.2 / 1 lb
- Family
- Asteraceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-25 → 2026-10-08
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-18
- First harvest
- 2026-06-28
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 158 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 177 seeds · 150 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $145.20 / $290.40
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel