Procut Lemon Lite is a bright, cheerful sunflower bred for the cutting garden and flower market. This F1 hybrid grows compact and produces blooms in just 50-60 days, making it one of the fastest routes to fresh-cut flowers. Hardy across zones 2-11, it thrives from cool spring sowings through warm summers, rewarding direct seeding with reliable, long-stemmed flowers that glow in a vase or garden bed.
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Light yellow blooms with a distinctly cheerful presence arrive remarkably fast, just 50-60 days from seed to flower. The compact growth habit and 4-inch spacing mean you can pack multiple plants into modest garden space or containers, succession-sowing every 1-2 weeks for continuous blooms. Harvest flowers at any stage from tight bud to fully open, depending on your preference, and dry them easily for long-lasting arrangements.
Procut Lemon Lite excels as a cut flower for fresh arrangements and as a garden specimen where its bright, cheerful blooms add color and cheer. Flowers can be harvested when color first appears for tight, long-lasting bouquets, or when nearly fully open for immediate impact. It also dries beautifully, allowing you to hang bundles or dry them with silica gel for year-round dried arrangements.
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Sow into 72 to 50-cell flats 2-3 weeks prior to transplanting outdoors. Keep soil temperature between 50-75°F for germination. Handle seedlings gently when transplanting, as sunflowers dislike root disturbance. Early indoor seeding can help you time the first crop to perfection.
Transplant seedlings outdoors after the last frost date in your area. Space plants 4 inches apart in full sun with well-draining soil. Harden off indoors-started plants gradually to prevent transplant shock.
Direct seed 1/2 inch deep after the last frost date. This is the recommended method for Procut Lemon Lite. Succession-sow every 1-2 weeks for continuous blooms throughout the season.
Harvest flowers based on your intended use. For fresh cut flowers with longer vase life, cut when color first shows and buds are still tight. For fully open blooms with immediate visual impact, harvest when the flower is almost completely open. For drying, wait until flowers are completely open, then hang bundles upside down or place in silica gel for preservation.
Do not pinch plants. Pinching single-stem sunflowers like Procut Lemon Lite results in low-quality blooms or no blooms at all, so allow plants to grow undisturbed.
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