Dümmen Orange offers a large assortment of calibrachoa classes featuring solids, bicolors, multicolors, and star patterns. The calibrachoa TikTok series burst onto the market last year with four multicolored and impactful varieties: Blue, Grape, Rose, and White. The calibrachoa market is teeming with incredible diversity and a plethora of remarkable selections, and the Cruze Control series has risen to the occasion with an exceptionally durable and unique class. The series has 19 varieties and offers a wide palette of colors and patterns. This combination is consistently a top performer and demonstrates earliness, which is indicative of the entire series, exceptional balance, short internodes, larger flowers and outstanding heat tolerance. The three components are calibrachoa Grape Delicious, Orange and Yellow. The mono species Piñata Compatible is not new, but it has been in many regional trials the past few years and I believe it is the prototype of the Cruze Control series. The Green Fuse Botanicals Compatible program offers a creative and diverse assortment of varieties designed for balance, timing, texture, early flowering and summer performance. This series will definitely upgrade the MixMasters and promote early flowering, improved timing, and season-long performance. The plants were exposed to light frost, cool night temperatures, and excessive rain for two weeks and continued to grow, develop excellent lateral branching, and flower early and profusely. This was one of my first container plantings this spring in early April. The attributes I have seen in the CannonBall series in the trials are consistent with my container trial at home. The purple and burgundy colors are enhanced by the reflective power of white creating an impactful combination. This multi-species sun combination has been improved and upgraded for next year with the new petunia ‘CannonBall Purple’ replacing ‘SunSpun Burgundy’ and complementing the current components verbena ‘Firehouse Purple’ and calibrachoa ‘Cabaret White’. Many of the recipes are new for 2022, and those that I have chosen to highlight were based on my early visit on week 21. One salient feature of these combinations is the introduction of new and improved varieties every year, which upgrades and improves the vibrancy and stability of the flowers, as well as overall presentation and summer performance. The unrooted cuttings were stuck week 9, transplanted week 12 into 12-inch containers, and moved to the trial garden week 16. There were over 140 breeder recipes in the container trial. There are additional criteria when considering designer recipes: timing, color theory, uniformity and component balance. The performance criteria of the trial entries include flower number, flower quality, vigor, uniformity, heat tolerance, and insect and disease resistance. The plants are trialed in raised beds, garden planters, hanging baskets and landscape beds. I look forward to attending the Young’s Plant Farm well-organized, diverse, and comprehensive trial in late May and again in August every year.
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