Allotments 4 All
Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: JAL on June 04, 2004, 21:50:35
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Hi,
Has anyone out there had any experience of growing these plants? I purchased them as plug plants and they are now in their second pot and over 6" high. Do I pinch out the tops? I was also thinking of hardening them off this weekend with a view to planting on the allotment.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
jal :)
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If you don't pinch them out you will very quickly end up with a single, large (and gorgeous imho) flower. Pinching them sets them back considerably, in my experience, but you will produce a fabulous 'bouquet' later in the season. I always pinch mine but the choice is yours. In their native habitat, the southern great plains of the U.S.- hence 'Prairie Gentian'-they are perennials, probably sending up the single flower in their first season and multiple flowers subsequently.
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Hi,
Thank you - I will pinch out half and see what happens.
jal