DRUMSTICK
DRUMSTICK
DRUMSTICK
BILLYBUTTON
Craspedia
- Best grown as a direct-sown crop.
- Useful for indoor and outdoor professional cut flower production programs for fresh and dried use: can also be used green when harversted young
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Drumstick. BillyButton
Culture Tips
CROP TIME
From planting to harvest 14 weeks
PLANTING DENSITY
25 plants/m2 net.
PRE-PLANTING
Soil: A loose soil is required well drained with a level surface. At least 25 cm deep.
pH: 5.5 to 6.0
Netting: 2 levels
HIGH PINCH
At week 8-9 after planting, pinch the apical flower bud. This will activate lateral buds and stimulate homogeneous floral induction.
IRRIGATION
Keep soil’s moisture at field capacity. Apply a dailty average volume of 5.0 to 5.5 lt/m2/day according to organoleptic monitoring.
FERTILIZATION
Excesive Nitrogen fertilizer may result in overgrowth of plants. A general fertilization formulation can be:
N: 80ppm
P: 40 ppm
K: 160 ppm
Ca: 120 ppm,
Mg: 60 ppm
S: 50 ppm,
Fe: 2 ppm,
Mn: 2.5 ppm,
Cu, Zn y B: 0.2 ppm.
HARVEST
Harvest when flowers begin to unfold their petals. The flowers are individually entangled and assembled in bunches of 10.
POSTHARVEST TREATMENT
Hydrate in an initial solution of Chrysal 0,3 cc/lt x 4 hours.
PESTS & DISEASES
•Afids
•Thrips
•Botrytis
•Susceptible to Phytotoxicity, evaluate products before application.