Anyone have experiene growing mums commercially?

Robin Hood · Nov 12, 2016

Wondering what the ins and outs of it are.

Greg1959 · Nov 12, 2016

Robin Hood- My Uncle and cousin have done it for years. They found out pretty early that they could make more money by buying the Mums from the Amish and reselling them instead of growing their own.

showcrop · Nov 12, 2016

I don't know much for ins and outs but a friend raised them for a long time, then got out of it some eight year ago. He recently told me that he just got back in because it became profitable again

John B. · Nov 12, 2016

You have to keep them trimmed back a few times during the summer to keep them from blooming until Fall. You want the Hardy mums so they come back year after year.

LAA · Nov 13, 2016

I worked at a place that grew them commercially, the big expense now days will be the amount of labor involved. Depending on whether you start them from seed as we did or buy started plants it's all about the same because you have to transplant to larger "sale" pots and then water daily, fertilize at regular intervals and trim the leaves to shape the plant before blooming. Another big variable expense wise is your local climate, we were always able to put down black black plastic and set the mums outside in the early spring after transplanting because the weather would permit it in our area, that saved all the expense of climate controlling multiple greenhouse's plus left the houses open for other plants. One problem we never had was selling the mums in the spring, they are hardy and colorful and seems like most everyone likes them.

Cory Schmidt · Nov 13, 2016

We use to sell those among other things. don't recall much about them though, been a few years. Unlike what LAA said you don't have to water every day(unless really hot for a stretch), we only watered when they wilted bad like anything else in the greenhouse with a blast of fertilizer every so often.

LAA · Nov 13, 2016

As I said below, we grew them outside after transplanting in Louisiana, that is why we watered everyday, It would probably not be required in a cooler climate.

Cory Schmidt · Nov 14, 2016

That's right climate and watering requirements are very relate closely... I remember now having them in 6 or 8 inch pots and carrying them out of the greenhouse when warm...then the ones that didn't sell went back in in fall before they froze..

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