Trial: Annual
Year Trialed: 2007
Good Qualities
Different, nice stems, lots of blooms; Pretty color. nice spray of small flowers; It was a nice color and went very well with the ‘Wonderous Light Brown’; Interesting new spray type; Very different looking lisianthus, stem are covered with tulip shaped blooms; The color of the yellow and white was very nice but the green was too pale to make a statement, most everyone thought it was white, though small, the flowers were well shaped and held for an extended period of time; Multiple small blooms per stem, very delicate appearance; Adorable tiny single flowers in clusters, blooms have a pleasant green tinge, more of a filler flower and not easily identified as a lisianthus; Great for wedding bouquet work and smaller design work - not for farmers market straight bunches.Problems
Short (5); Small flowers; Color similar to Fioretti Yellow; I'm not sure about the flower size, I didn't have enough to see really what the market would make out of this form of lisianthus, they love the large flowered stuff...; I don't think there are any, once again, I think the drought caused shortened stems; A little more fussy to deadhead if necessary than standard lisianthus; Not very productive some flowers go by and need to be picked off; The lisianthus seed did not germinate well – approximately 1% germinated, the seedlings were extremely slow growing.Similar Cultivars
Other Fioretti’s.Postharvest
See separate postharvest report for results from NC State University postharvest evaluations.Trial Data
| 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 | 2.5 | 16.7 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 48 | 11.0 |
| Range of Responses | 1-5.7 | 11-22 | 3.0 | 3-5 | 3-4 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 16-121 | 8-14 |
¹1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.
Comments
Not as impressed with this variety as I was the Abc 2-3 Green; Same as other lisianthus, I would love to try it again but get it in as plugs and get it in much earlier so it can be planted in the greenhouse by the middle of February; Grown in 30%+ shade, 1st of 'fioretti' cultivars to bloom of those trialed; Hard to tell the cream, yellow and green apart, there needs to be a better division of these colors; Long flowering period - very rugged