Shhh! Please don’t tell our Echinacea it’s time to flower.
Posted by John Friel on Jun 17th 2022
(We’re keeping it in the dark!)Sales Opportunity: Late summer/early fall market for fresh, flowering perennials.
Sales Barrier: Perennial fave Echinacea is flowered out, way past “fresh” by then.Winning Solution: Our short-day Echinacea program!Starting in spring, we delay the flowering response of a popular coneflower by manipulating (shortening) its daylength. The treated liners are like little green time machines: They make up for lost time in your pots, setting buds and blooming weeks