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Helianthus ‘Pro Cut Yellow Lite’

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Trial Started: 2005

Year of Trial: First (from 2005 report)

Helianthus 'Pro Cut Yellow Lite'

Good Qualities

Bright color (8); Very uniform (3); Nice flower size; Two week earlier than ‘Sunrich Orange’; Consumers loved it; They sell out at farmer’s market at 1.00 – 2.00 stem; Good stems; Same as most ‘Pro Cut’; Light green center; All bloomed within 4 days of each other; Stem strength, long lasting; Nice 4 foot height; Early; Nice cut flower with good stem length, and quick harvest period – had excellent germination both in transplant and direct seeding – would definitely grow this again for the color, plants were taller than 35 inches but that height worked best for cutting; A really nice looking orangey-yellow sunflower with a light yellow center; very fresh and vibrant-looking, opened uniformly, fairly quickly, and continued to grow to about 6 or 7 inch diameter, A quick turn-around sunflower. Pollenless. Single branched; Great mixer – nice texture in flower; Nice flower, I liked them – fresh looking.

Problems

Delicate petals (2); Looks different than the rest of the Pro Cut series with its long petals and rounded disc; Petals don’t open out completely, tends to form cylinder around center; Also tendency for ends of petals to bleach in the sun; Very susceptible to midge (most of our planting was un-useable) time of the year??; Unstable neck in post harvest, especially vulnerable to insect damage/ head irregularities, fat stems; Too short; Florist and consumers like the darker sunflowers best but they still sell well; We had lots of either brown stink bugs (bad) or the good look-alikes Spined soldier bugs on these, also corn rootworm beetle and cucumber beetle, but very little insect damage ensued owing to our early-cut schedule; Hard to keep up with bugs on sunflowers in our location without routine pesticide applications; Too large of flower head for typical arrangement in home; Bugs; Low germination %; Florists don’t like green centers, cucumber beetles like them a lot – don’t usually have problems with them so early in the season, maybe just because it was so hot and dry this year.

Postharvest

Used Floralife; Harvest in plain water; We cut them early, just as the petals started to color up and lift, before insects could get at them! – we used warm water and Floralife, heads grew visibly larger as they continued to open, customers liked the exceptionally long vase-life, we provided them with Floralife and the instructions to change out water every other day; Pick when just unfolding petals.

Comments

Similar to ‘Sunrich Gold’; Looks like a marigold without the fragrance; We like to sell a grouping of 4 sunflowers encircling a bunch of mixed grass, so especially like late- season sunflowers – these came along in late season with excellent timing and uniformity, a really pretty sunflower in many respects!; Nothing too special; Very tall could cut much longer stems; Would be great in mixes, no good in own bunches at my market, I loved the color!; Despite problems growing them, there is a big demand for locally grown sunflowers in our market, especially among upscale event florists; All of the ‘Pro Cut’ are uniform and very programmable for continuous production; Both ‘Pro Cut’ sunflower varieties grew well to about 6 feet tall, and with 8 in. diameter blooms – my favorite is the ‘Pro Cut Yellow’ with the lemon yellow centers, this will definitely be added to my list of sunflowers to continue growing.

Trial Data

Helianthus ‘Pro Cut Yellow Lite’
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 1.0 40.7 3.3 4.0 3.9 4.0 4.4 138 8.6
Range of Responses 1.0 18-60 2-4 3-5 2-5 1-5 3-5 9-576 6-11

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

Supplier

SeedSense Ltd.
The Tithe Barn, Mundesley Rd.
Trunch, Norfolk HR28 0QB, England

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