"K" wrote in message
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M Keville writes
My magnolia grandiflora had a wonderful crop of flowers this year. I did
not
remove the seed pods and some have grown quite large - they look like
mini-pineapples and the biggest are about as big as a fist.
Should I remove them and will failure to do so inhibit flowering next
year?
Thanks in advance for your help.

The idea of removing seed pods is that you should do it *before* the plant
has diverted its energy into producing them, by removing the dead flowers.

I wouldn't have thought it made any difference to a Magnolia grandiflora.
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I've got over a dozen on my Magnolia Soulangia, bright red, whereas I've
only ever had one or none before. I guess it was a hot summer. I believe the
flowers are only pollinated if the temperature is quite high for a
twenty-four hour period, so these pods must have come from the smattering of
flowers that come during the summer, after the main March flowering.

Andy.