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| All I did was just cut the mum blooms off, did I do the right thing? I also gave it some water, and the stems of the plant are still green. How often do I water it, and how much? I have it in the kitchen which stays cool all winter long, and it gets some sun but not much. Does that seem like a good idea to keep through the winter? The last mum I had was a gift and it was not hardy, and I know that sometimes the hardy ones don't survive the winters, is there anything else I can do to keep it alive? |
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- Posted by sherryinmaine 5a (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 17:29
| Hi, I just posted similar question over on container gardening forum. I bought couple big pots at H.D. the other day. So gorgeous! Pretty rust colored blooms, with buds just awaiting to pop open, after the original blooms fade--half price, too! Cause I live in Maine, I placed them close to my house, and, put them on the porch if it's cold at night. Today, it 'snowed' (teensy flakes every now and then. no accumulation) tonight I'll bring in, since they say it'll be 20s. Or, I'll put 'em in greenhouse. |
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| I cant comment on whether a mum can survive indoors on a slim diet of water and very little...if any at all, sunlight. If the plants are not those which were grown in a greenhouse simply to provide a little fall color, then it stnads a chance of survival....outdoors. Mums are outdoor plants and the usual...let's say the common approach, is to -- |
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- Posted by aseedisapromise z4.5 SD (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 22:16
| I kept mums alive all winter inside my three season porch. It was a very warm winter. They were three small ones that I put in a window box because we were moving to this place in November, and I never got them planted. I wasn't sure what to do for them, so that was the treatment they got. I made sure they didn't dry out, and they were sitting on a carpet-covered concrete floor under two layers of row cover where they could be in the sun if it shone. They never really did get brown and die back, and one tried to bloom in June I think it was. I just cut them all back then, and planted them in the ground and they got some new growth and are blooming now. |
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- Posted by FlowerPotTipper 6 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 3:02
| I bought a pot of mums 2 summers ago, thinking they only lasted for one season, and that following fall I just let them die back by themselves (and it really looked dead, just a bunch of short brown sticks)... Well I never got around to throwing them away, and that spring I was getting ready to pull them out of their pot to replace with new plants when I saw new growth, so I just let them be and waited to see what happened. And sure enough they grew back and by very late summer/early fall I had blooms again.. So even if it looks dead by winter, their's still a very good chance they're not. I had them against my back porch wall all winter. You should just put them outside and just let them die back naturally and wait til next spring/summer and see what happens. Alot of people love mums cause of the fact they're so easy to grow back year after year. I really think leaving them inside is just a for sure death sentence for them, I really do not think they're meant to be kept as houseplants all year long..But that's just from my one experience with them. -FPT |
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- Posted by greenlarry UK 8/9 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 5:54
| I believe these are hardy perennials-they die down in winter then sprout again in spring. Not sure how they would work as houseplants-do they need a winter rest? |
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- Posted by sherryinmaine 5a (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 17:11
| hey guys, I understand what you all mean-- it's just that I didn't buy any of these beautiful pots (not the jumbo basket size, but the next smaller square pots) all season, because too expensive . . . . . . I liked the way they looked in pots, too and I knew that I really couldn't keep them overwinter. Right now, just couple days after I bought them at half off, they are beautiful! Full of blooms, with buds already awaiting!!!! |
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- Posted by sandy0225 z5 Indiana (northerntropics@sbcglobal.net) on Thu, Nov 8, 12 at 16:34
| If you let hardy mums naturally go dormant outside, then move them into a garage or storage shed and give them about 1 cup of water once a month until spring and then plant them out in the ground in a sunny well drained place to grow. |
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