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Annual baby's breath (Gypsophila elegans) Planting Calculator
Gypsophila elegans
Everything you need to plan Annual baby's breath (Gypsophila elegans): recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 6″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- 60 days from sowing
- Succession planting
- Recommended
- Every 14 days
- Start indoors
- 6 weeks before
- before last frost
- Production pattern
- One-hit producer
- Hardy annual · Pinch
Plan your Annual baby's breath (Gypsophila elegans) beds
Prefilled with Annual baby's breath (Gypsophila elegans)'s recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 6″Range null–null″
Your plan
700
Total plants
Based on 3.5 plants/sq ft at 6″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 771
- 72-cell trays needed
- 11
- 128-cell trays needed
- 7
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Planning notes
- Horizontal netting
- Landscape fabric
- Pinching
One-hit producer. A planting gives a concentrated harvest over a short window, so more frequent successive plantings are used to keep a continuous supply.
- This crop can be direct sown.
- Pinching is commonly used in this production system.
- Support netting is commonly used.
- Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.