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Snapdragons Deadheading
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Posted by jizaref 5 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 30, 05 at 13:51
| I am new to flowers and gardening, here in Massachusetts.
When I am deadheading snapdragons, do I pull the residual green but from the stalk where the flower used to be, or do I clip off the entire stalk? Is it better to wait until all flowers fall off, or do each one?
Thanks,
Jeff |
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RE: Snapdragons Deadheading
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| I take a pair of scissors and whack'em. You want to get those seed pods off before they grow into globes and stop the plant from blooming. To try to do them one by one on the branch is a bit time consuming. Just shearing all the branches back past the old flowers on the tips works for me. My aggressive techniques have always been forgiven with a multitude of lateral branches with new blooms. |
RE: Snapdragons Deadheading
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| My snapdragons stop blooming once it gets really hot anyways, so I let them reseed. I'm lucky, because not only do snapdragons reseed for me here, but they overwinter, too. |
RE: Snapdragons Deadheading
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| Cut the flower stems back to where the new side shoots are waiting to grow. (Fresh green growth along the bottom of the flower stem). You'll get masses of smaller flower stems from that. |
RE: Snapdragons Deadheading
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- Posted by tapla z5b-6a MI (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 1, 05 at 17:57
| I deadhead sd's when the blooms are nearly spent on individual stems. That is to say when blossoms are fading on an individual stem, like Susan, I make a scissor cut just above a leaf and below the lowest developing seed head on each individual stem. This technique is a little more fussin', but blooming goes on uninterrupted and the plant doesn't develop the tag-end dead stems that occur from whacking them. ;o) I suppose it would depend on how many you have & how fussy you are. I often include them in containers, & about those, I'm pretty particular. Al |
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