Hi Folks
This is my first thread.Can you pinch out the growing tip of ALL annuals to encourage bushiness
Thanks Jemo

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Jemo wrote:

Hi Folks
This is my first thread.Can you pinch out the growing tip of ALL annuals
to encourage bushiness
Thanks Jemo

I don't do this but Ingrid does.

http://www.gardenguides.com/528-just-pinch-can-work-wonders.html

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In article ,
Jemo wrote:

Hi Folks
This is my first thread.Can you pinch out the growing tip of ALL annuals
to encourage bushiness
Thanks Jemo

Why would you want to do that to a cabbage?
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merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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Jemo wrote:
Hi Folks
This is my first thread.Can you pinch out the growing tip of ALL
annuals to encourage bushiness
Thanks Jemo

You probably can do it but it wouldn't always be any advantage. What is it
that you are itching to pinch and why?

David

In article ,
Jemo wrote:

Hi Folks
This is my first thread.Can you pinch out the growing tip of ALL annuals
to encourage bushiness
Thanks Jemo

Your use of the word pinch out and annual sort of threw me. I was just
out back doing some pinching off of a deciduous azaleas. Thing is I
called the action deadheading a very good thing to do.

http://gardening.about.com/od/gardenprimer/g/Deadheading.htm

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
What use one more wake up call?

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/

Pinching and deadheading are not the same thing. Pinching is done to
tender new growth, long before flowering, usually to increase branching
and thus increase the number of leaves and/or flowers.

Basil may be pinched to decrease flowering and increase leafing.

Crysanthemum etc. may be pinched to increase flowering. To get the
mass-of-flowers display seen in garden shows, intensive pinching is
required.

In fruit and ornamental trees under intensive management, suckers and
water shoots can be controlled by prompt pinching.

Una

In article , (Una) wrote:

Pinching and deadheading are not the same thing.

Basil may be pinched to decrease flowering and increase leafing.

Crysanthemum etc. may be pinched to increase flowering. To get the
mass-of-flowers display seen in garden shows, intensive pinching is
required.

Una

Sort of reminds me of painting wounds then not painting wounds
controversy . There is also the issue of the $1 tree and the $10 hole
versus the $10 tree and the $1 hole.

Nature confusion with much room for learning from mistakes.

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
What use one more wake up call?

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/

In article , (Una) wrote:

Basil may be pinched to decrease flowering and increase leafing.

Just my opinion maybe, but to me the flowering stem is the best part of
the basil plant for making pesto.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html