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Digitalis ‘Camelot White’

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Trial: Annual

Year Trialed: 2004
Year of Trial: First (from 2004 report)

Good Qualities

Great color (4); Easy to grow (3); Relatively short, would try again and try to push taller; Large heads, nice as single bouquets, great for weddings, good branching; Short crop time; Stiff stems, 1st year flowering; Since these seeds were pelleted, no transplanting from seed tray was necessary, direct seed to plug tray, great!; Uniform, did very well; Strong healthy plants, grew quickly, all colors bloom at same time, unlike Foxy; In the tunnel, attractive appearance, steady production from early July until late fall (Zone 5), taller than Cream but fewer stems; Attractive in the garden.

Problems

Failed – too hot – need to plant in November here; Short but planted late; Spider mites; Could not condition for outside sales (very not in Aug.), the spots turned to brown as flowers mature; Bottom florets drop off; In the tunnel, fragile, similar to Cream; Outside, flowers need to be handled carefully to prevent floret drop; Difficult to use in arrangements, extra care required not to damage flowers, few flowers per plant; Short flowering period.

Postharvest

We didn’t do any post harvest trials on this one but it seemed to hold really well; Remove bottom florets, or they will drop off on their own; In the tunnel, 10 days in Aquaplus, vase life comments same as for Cream; Outside, flowers last about a week in water, but florets start dropping after about 5 days at room temperature; Preservative is definitely needed for longer vase life; remove lower leaves when placing in cut flower solution.

Comments

Similar to Foxy (2); Tunnel: more productive than Foxy, 12 vs 10 stems/plant, stem length similar; No disease problems, no bugs until Japanese beetle started; My customers used all the colors; Camelot was strong from emergence onward, it was planted on plastic mulch and not irrigated, easy to grow, it is worth the added expense, it being at least 20 times more expensive than Foxy; Very unique cut flower; support was not necessary; Digitalis is a biennial. Flower production per plant during the first year was not great, but acceptable for such an unusual cut flower; we have left these plants in the field for over winter, will there be more flowers the second year? Our high tunnel research demonstrated longer flowering stems inside vs outside in full sun.

Trial Data

Digitalis ‘Camelot White’
Yield (stems/plant) Stem Length (inches) Market Appreciation Rating¹ Repeat Again Rating¹ Ease of Cultivation Rating¹ Average Spacing (in2) Average Postharvest Life (days)
Wholesale Retail Consumer
Average 4.9 22.4 4.0 4.7 3.8 3.9 4.4 112 6.3
Range of Responses 1-12 14-40 4 4-5 2-5 1-5 3-5 36-144 5-7

¹1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.

Supplier

Goldsmith Seeds
P.O. Box 1349
Gilroy CA 95021

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