When a plant produces flowers
A plant is flowering when it produces flowers. Use this tag for all questions about the flowering process - e.g. getting a plant to flower; what to do when it flowers; and how to keep it flowering.
Questions tagged [flowering]
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Flowering plant identification and why might flowers not open?
Are there common/well-known (and hopefully curable) reasons why a plant's flowers would fail to open?
The plant in the pictures below has remained in the same earthenware pot - about 45cm at the top, tapering down to 30 cm, and about 40 cm tall -…
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Anthuruim leaves have white spots
I'm very new to gardening and just bought an anthuruim from a nursery.
However, when I looked closely at the leaves, I found that it has some white spots.
I'm really worried if I bought an infected plant. I tried washing the leaves with little…
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How do you make a Kalanchoe blossfeldiana bloom?
This plant was beautiful and full of flowers. They all withered away. Now the buds just don't want to open. I read somewhere that Kalanchoe at home needs to be bloomed by doing some tricks like putting in shade for some time and then in sun etc. Not…
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What flowering plants bloom between mid January and mid February on Honshu, Japan?
I love Japan its for nature, plants (like Nemophila that bloom in spring at Hitachi Seaside Park) and luxury fruits.
I would like to know what flowering plants I could expect to bloom between the dates of January 15 and February 10 on the island of…
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Revert lettuce to vegetative phase by cutting it down
I have read several article stating that it is possible to revert a bolted leafy lettuce to vegetative growth by cutting it down to 1 centimeter.
Is that right?
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How to make Grow Light with LED?
I made a LED setup with blue and red LED that is supposed to help me with indoor planting. I used total 4 LEDs (2 Red and 2 Blue) for one pot of Portolaca flowers. But I think it is not simulating the sunlight properly. How many LEDs am I supposed…
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Twin corms formed by gladious plant
My gladiolus plant formed twin corms. The plant flowered once and then died but has created two large healthy corms. Why did this happens and will the corms produce new healthy plants?
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Is overhead watering bad for all flowering plants?
What about ground covers that flower (e.g. dianthus)? I understand that a little bit of an overhead shower is needed now and then but ground covers are just too low and wide spread to be watered from the base so they'll definately end up having wet…
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How to identify emergent Eau de cologne mint flowering stem?
How to identify an emerging flowering stem and prune it before it bolts?
I am new to growing, I had seen pictures of already flowered mints.
I googled and read and decided perhaps it is a good decision I shouldn't allow it to flower lest it wastes…
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Fuchsia buds are dropping
My Fuchsia is indoor, it's a small plant and looks quite healthy with so many buds.
However, I for last 2-3 days the buds are dropping if I am touching the plant.
Watering conditions:
Plenty of holes in the pot
I usually tend to water when the…
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How many/how much (by weight) orange blossoms do you get from an orange tree?
An average is fine, and ideally specific to the bitter orange tree.
I'm trying to understand the economics of cultivating for Neroli oil.
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I have a big rose outside that does not make flowers almost at all!
We bought the house 3 years ago.
The rose at the end of the picture below flowered just once in three years (this year). It grows like crazy, it is huge right now, almost bigger than the fence and I don't understand why it does not make flowers.…
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Nyctanthes arbor-tristis tree branch breaking by itself
Of late i started observing that several branches of the so called coral jasmine tree were broken and hanging. Certainly there was a spell of gusty winds blowing through. Is there any known disease that has affected these trees, or the tree branches…
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Do you know of ways that help a plant to produce more flowers?
In Crocus sativus, or saffron crocus, the most commercially important part is stigma of flowers. Each plant produces one flower (so there is more than one plant in this picture) and each flower has three stigmas (stigmas are red in this picture).…
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Growing in a bottle
I have this soda bottle and I wanted to know - is there was any way to grow some type of orange flower in it?
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