Notes
Group 3 (Rocket). Pinch once. Heat-capable. Same 2-layer net as Potomac.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Rocket Mix
Snapdragon · Antirrhinum majus
DTM
90 d
122 d occupancy · moderate
Rows
4
6 in in-row
Density
8
plants / bed-ft
Yield
9
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$10.13
$1.25 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Spike · 24 in stem
- Support netting
- 2-layer Hortonova · 6 in mesh · 12 in / 24 in
- Pinch
- 6 in · leave 3 nodes · +10 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- ½ open · every 4 d
- Stem yield
- 4 / plant · 9 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Citric-acid hydration · vase 7 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 90 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 35 d
- Germination
- 8 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 80°F (opt 70°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
- 90 d
- Holding
- 16 d
- Occupancy
- 122 d
- Multicut
- yes · 5 cuts · 4 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Moderate
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 9
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.60 / $1.25
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
- 1.7 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
- Plantaginaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-25 → 2026-10-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-18
- First harvest
- 2026-06-23
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 18 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 139 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 471 seeds · 400 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $243.00 / $506.25
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel