Notes
Pinch at 8–12 in. Hortonova 8 in mesh at 18 in. Cut fully open — zinnias do not continue to open in the vase. No cold box below 45°F.
Cultivars / Cut flowers
Benary's Giant Lime
Zinnia · Zinnia elegans
DTM
87 d
129 d occupancy · tender
Rows
3
9 in in-row
Density
4
plants / bed-ft
Yield
8
stems / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.74
$1.10 / stem
Cut flower protocol
Focal · 24 in stem
- Support netting
- 1-layer Hortonova · 8 in mesh · 18 in
- Pinch
- 10 in · leave 4 nodes · +12 d DTM
- Harvest stage
- Fully open · every 3 d
- Stem yield
- 6 / plant · 8 / bed-ft
- Pulse
- Plain cold water · vase 7 d
- DTM on this sheet
- 87 d field-to-cut (includes pinch)
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 21 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 70°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 3
- In-row
- 9 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 4
- Plants / 50 ft
- 200
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 87 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 129 d
- Multicut
- yes · 8 cuts · 3 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- stem
- Units / bed-ft
- 8
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.5 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
- 1.1 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 85.7
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
- Asteraceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-08-15
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-25
- First harvest
- 2026-07-11
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 119 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 236 seeds · 200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $193.60 / $387.20
Companions
basil · dill · alyssum
Avoid
fennel