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Try setting ‘parent’ to the field key of the ‘layouts’ of the flex fields.
Here is the portion of an exported field group with a flex field.
'fields' => array(
array(
'key' => 'field_54fca97e88819',
'label' => __('Panels'),
'name' => 'blunt_panels',
'prefix' => '',
'type' => 'flexible_content',
'instructions' => ''
'required' => 0,
'conditional_logic' => 0,
'wrapper' => array(
'width' => '',
'class' => '',
'id' => '',
),
'button_label' => __('Add Panel'),
'min' => '',
'max' => '',
'layouts' => array(
array(
'key' => '54fca987f37a3', // <= try this key as the parent
'name' => '1_column_simple',
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