Harvesting and Preparing Gomphrena Flowers to be Dried | 1818 Farms 

It’s such a wonderful flower!

So happy that you enjoyed the video.

We love gomphrena! It is such a unique and beautiful flower. Gomphrena is one of my favorite flowers to grow because of its versatility as a fresh cut and dried flower. What varieties are you planning to grow?

I feel like seeing both the good and bad stems really teach you what to do in the garden. We just published a video on how we make our mixed dried bouquets. Hope you enjoy it as well. Thank you for watching.

You are so welcome! Happy that you enjoyed the video.

You are so welcome!

You are so welcome. Happy that you enjoyed it.

Thank you so much! Glad you are enjoying the videos. We hope to have something weekly.

You are so welcome!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you! Me too. They are such happy flowers. Are you growing gomphrena this season?

@@1818Farms I am! I've got seeds ready to go and I'm so excited!

Thank you! Can’t wait for gomphrena season!

I love drying gomphrena. It is such a versatile flowers.

You are so welcome! Happy that you enjoy the channel.

It will be ready before you know it!

Thank you! It’s one of my favorites.

Once they are very dry there is a hard seed inside near the base of the flower. I have found that they are sort of difficult to remove. It can be done!

Sharon, We direct seed in mid April. This is after our last frost date.

1818 Farms thanks so much!! I really need to come visit when the crazy pandemic is over 😉

Thank you. I have never used it as an edible. I would need to research!

@@1818Farms Hello! Thank you for your answer, I've found out it is edible. It grows a lot in my country Panama and people use it a lot in cakes, I found out some tea recipes in youtube as well under globe amaranth :)

Yes, they will get stiffer as they mature. For me it seems the warmer the weather the quicker they mature.

Happy that you enjoyed it! I am not familiar with the zizzle variety.

Thank you! These snips are ARS. They are great.

@@1818Farms Thank you for your redponse...

How deep are you planting the seeds? We just barely cover ours. They like heat. We put ours in trays and left them outside in mid May. Planted on a Friday and had sprouts by Monday and Tuesday.

@@1818Farms ah that might be it. I think I planted them maybe 1cm?

We use a 4 foot wide netting - Hortanova. It is secured with fiberglass poles. We have very hot summers here. I think they love the heat.

@@1818Farms Thank you for such fast reply. My summer is super hot, too. Above 100F everyday.

As long as they are irrigated well they should thrive....Super hot and humid here. Hope you enjoyed the video.

We usually remove and dry those. They are wonderful for crafting.

@@1818Farms would you generally go by one bloom per stem then, for drying?

Some varieties are more branching than others. The first cut of the season we remove the center stem of the branching varieties. These stems are shorter, but useable. You want to get those cut before they goto seed. A lot of our sides are mature at cutting. We do have some heads that aren’t fully developed. Those are snipped off and placed into a dehydrator. What is your zone? I think our success with this flower comes from our hot climate as well.

@@1818Farms I live in Southeast Asia, so I'm not sure if this region is zoned

I have found they need to mature on the vine for seed.

We plant in the field. We amend our soil with compost collected over the season each Spring. We spray seaweed and fish emulsion on the plants throughout the growing season.

It depends if they have been cross pollinated. We alway purchase fresh seed every season.

I am so sorry to hear that. We direct seed several of our varieties. They love the heat. I haven’t done a video on that but hope to do one.

@@1818Farms OH okay. I live in zone 7 in the Piedmont of North Carolina. if they love the heat I tried to do these too soon. When do you direct sow?

Thank you Elizabeth! We do not sell gomphrena seed. We do sell a few other varieties on our website.

I love gompherena can u please sell some seeds ?

They are tender annuals and do not survive a frost. We replant every year.

We do! They prefer much cooler temperatures.

I purchase from Johnny’s seeds or Geo. I am unsure if they ship international.

These were actually purchased as plugs. Otherwise you have to buy individual seed colors.

It doesn’t have a smell at all. I bet you are thinking of eryngium.

It has zero smell. You are probably thinking of Eryngium.