Flower / Warm season
Chief Mix Celosia
Warm cut-flower rows and high-color container plantings.
Velvety plumes and crests for fresh and dried arrangements.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 90
- Germination temperature
- 70-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 12 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Start indoors, harden off, then transplant into the final bed when local timing is safe.
- How much space?
- 12 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.125 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Wait for warm soil before transplanting; cold checks growth. Moderate water; avoid prolonged soggy soil. Warm, fertile, well-drained soil.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water; avoid prolonged soggy soil.
- Soil
- Warm, fertile, well-drained soil.
- Watch
- Wait for warm soil before transplanting; cold checks growth.
- cut-flowers
- annual
- heat-tolerant
- containers
Browse context
- Flower Catalog Category collection
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