"Darren Garrison" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:48:08 -0700, "Brandon"
wrote:

I have a very nice Castor bean plant growing in my backyard. the trunk
is
7-8 inches in diameter. As with all Castors it develops the seed pods,
which I normally cut off before they have a chance to dry and open.
It occurred to me that I have heard that there may be a way to stop some
plants from fruiting or going to seed somehow( some sort of hormone?) Can
this be dome with a Castor bean plant?

Why not just pinch off the flowers?

I do, the issue being that many of the flowers are beyond my reach without
some very complicated balancing on top of a ladder with an extended cutting
tool.