Trial: Annual
Years Trialed: 2003
Good Qualities
Good germination; Harvested all flowers for a wedding and like how they arranged even though they were short; Nice filler.Problems
Poor germination (6); Too short (3); Poor vigor (3); Ready to pick before any other flowers in our annual garden; Plants were stressed when transplanted, we did not harvest any stems from the 8 plants that actually made it out of the greenhouse.Trial Data
| Yield (stems/plant)¹ | Stem Length (inches)¹ | Market Appreciation Rating² | Repeat Again Rating² | Ease of Cultivation Rating² | Average Spacing (in2) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale | Retail | Consumer | ||||||
| Average | 5.0 | 9.0 | - | - | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 122 |
| Range of Responses | 4-6 | 8-10 | - | - | 3-4 | 3 | 2-5 | 100-144 |
¹1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.
Comments
Similar to any candy tuft, planted very late and experienced drought problems, very short stems, not usable, due to extended time in plug trays; Only 4 plants to bloom, picked on 6/16; We treated this crop as a transplant this year and really ought to have direct seeded it, to assess whether it is capable of coming to flower as a direct seed crop.