Peas.. flowers just at the top

[Jeannine]

I have good pea plants, regular peas, not climbers or snaps etc.

They look super healthy and have flowered, but the flowers are only right at the top and some pods just formed too.

My neighbour who planted earlier than me has pods from the ground up whereas mine appear to be just foliage for about 28 inches then they have started to flower.

I don't understand this

XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

[Ninnyscrops.]

Variety sown Jeannine?

Ninny

[Jeannine]

I don't remember, there were a few types I mixed together as they were all out of date and didn't expect them to germinate..they did. I did check the types and heights though which is why I am 100% confident they are not snap/snow/mangeouts. also the hightest growing ones was 30 inches. I didn't have any of the other types.

I am pretty sure one was Progresso 9 from Franchis and one was Onward but after that I can't remember.

XX Jeannine

[Ninnyscrops.]

I grow peas that only flower at about 30"+ and then carry on up the trellis, I don't know the variety either as they where handed on by a fellow plotholder, hence I call them "Lester's peas".  Definately no tendrils in evidence?

Ninny

[Jeannine]

No. they are not tall growing peas for sure,  XX Jeannine


I have just found my notes they were


Progresso 9
Greenshaft
Rondo
Onward.

That's it XX

[powerspade]

Funny you mention about your peas only flowering at the top mine have done exactly the same this year. I always grow Hurst Greenshaft and every year I get a excellent grow of peas this year not so. They took off like a rocket and shot up to 2ft and only then started to flower at the very top why? could be the weather or soil temperature i`m not sure  but like you I find it a bit of a mistery. I`ll email a friend of mine he has 60 years as a llotie perhaps he may be able to give me a answer. If I find out anything i`ll let you know

[plainleaf]

powerspade have thought of asking you question to  RHS or the Canadian equivalent  Jeannine .

[Jeannine]

I don't understand XX Jeannine

[plainleaf]

powerspade ,Jeannine have tried asking a the royal horticultural society, or Canadian version

[Jeannine]

Why?

[plainleaf]

Jeannine they might know the answer to your question.
if i have question i can not find the answer i ask my local agricultural extension office.
Jeannine if you would like i will submit your question to my local agricultural extension office.

[Jeannine]

Thank you for offering but it is not necessary XX Jeannine

[Mortality]

I knew I had read about pea plants like this before, Rebsie mentioned this type of pea growth on her Blog.

http://www.daughterofthesoil.com/salmonflowered.html

Blog of Rebsie Fairholm
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Facinating Blog of a Plant breeder, but shes much more than that ;)

I would say....save the seeds !!!

[Digeroo]

I have salmon flowered pea wbich grew all its peas in a circle right at the top.  Robert called it an umbellate form.  Like the pic on Daughter of the soil site.   I may gave a few seeds to spare they are something of an attractive oddity but I would not recommend them for serious pea eaters.

[Jeannine]

Thank you for the link, interesting, I will have to look closer at mine. because I chucked a few differnt kinds of old seed together it may be just one tyoe that is doing it, but it is a bit overcrowded.XX Jeannine