What do
I mean by this?
Think
back to last year, your Chrysanthemums were looking great about now, nice and
thick, starting to gain some height, you thought to yourself, “this fall is
going to look fantastic. But by August
you starting to get a little worried, they were getting a little too tall; and
by September they were bloomed out and falling over because of the flower
weight, seemed like the stems were too long. This is why I say “Time to pinch
and twist those Mums. And to do this is simple, just snap off the tips of each stem;
grab the top set of leaves on each stem and pinch and twist them off.
In doing
this you will stop each stem’s forward growth; it now has to rebuild the tip in
order to start growing length again. Yet, in the time being, it has all this
energy that typically when into “tip growth”. Where is it to go now? It goes
into side growth production.
So now
instead of just getting longer and spindly, it will stay a little shorter and
get thicker. Instead of 20 stems getting two feet long you will have 40 to 60 stems
staying a little shorter but with some meat on their bones.
Now when
the flower bloom happens, which by the way will be a little further back into
September now, they should be able to stand up under the additional weight of a
rain now and then.
If
you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at NiemeyerLandscaping@Gmail.com
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