If you remove the dead flowers, it will prevent those spent flowers from developing seeds. This helps the plant to focus its energy on producing more flowers (instead of seeds). When deadheading, make the cut about ¼ inch below the base of the flower (along the stem), or you can pinch it back to just above the nearest leaf junction. Do not remove just the petals – the entire flower structure, including the base connected to the stem (usually a little swollen area, with several tiny straplike “leaves” surrounding it, called the calyx) needs to be removed.
If the plants are young pinch back some of the growth tips, it will make the plant grow fuller instead of getting leggy. They usually start getting leggy is you don’t deadhead (cut spent flowers off). If the leggy-ness is more extreme, you can always clip all the stems down to 6 inches down, and fertilize the plant. In about a week, they’ll recover and bloom.
The plant willnot necessarily “do” better in a hanging pot; if all conditions are right (see above for planting and care advice) it will do well in a hanger or tabletop.
If you remove the dead flowers, it will prevent those spent flowers from developing seeds. This helps the plant to focus its energy on producing more flowers (instead of seeds). When deadheading, make the cut about ¼ inch below the base of the flower (along the stem), or you can pinch it back to just above the nearest leaf junction. Do not remove just the petals – the entire flower structure, including the base connected to the stem (usually a little swollen area, with several tiny straplike “leaves” surrounding it, called the calyx) needs to be removed.
If the plants are young pinch back some of the growth tips, it will make the plant grow fuller instead of getting leggy. They usually start getting leggy is you don’t deadhead (cut spent flowers off). If the leggy-ness is more extreme, you can always clip all the stems down to 6 inches down, and fertilize the plant. In about a week, they’ll recover and bloom.
The plant willnot necessarily “do” better in a hanging pot; if all conditions are right (see above for planting and care advice) it will do well in a hanger or tabletop.
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