Notes
Royal Family. Nick seed. Two Hortonova layers as a trellis. Cut daily — pods kill bloom. Cool crop.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Royal Family Mix
Sweet pea · Lathyrus odoratus
DTM
88 d
136 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
6 in in-row
Density
4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
10
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$12.75
$1.50 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Airy texture · 12 in stem
- Support netting
- 2-layer Hortonova · 6 in mesh · 12 in / 30 in
- Pinch
- 6 in · leave 2 nodes · +8 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- ½ open · every 1 d
- Stem yield
- 8 / plant · 10 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Citric-acid hydration · vase 5 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 88 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 70°F (opt 60°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 6 in
- Seed spacing
- 1½ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 4
- Plants / 50 ft
- 200
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 88 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 136 d
- Multicut
- yes · 10 cuts · 3 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 10
- Avg unit wt
- 0 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 15%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $0.70 / $1.50
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
- 1.2 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.3 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.6 / 0.2 / 0.9 lb
- Family
- Fabaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-04
- First harvest
- 2026-05-31
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 197 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 236 seeds · 200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $297.50 / $637.50
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel