Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?

It is a situation that calls for benign neglect. When it dies back (which
mine have done already) cut it off at the ground.

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
...
OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?

It is a situation that calls for benign neglect. When it dies back (which
mine have done already) cut it off at the ground.

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

Subject: Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
From: "Vox Humana"
It is a situation that calls for benign neglect. When it dies back (which
mine have done already) cut it off at the ground.
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Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

Subject: Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
From: "Vox Humana"
It is a situation that calls for benign neglect. When it dies back (which
mine have done already) cut it off at the ground.
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Thanks!

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

Subject: Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
From: "Vox Humana"
It is a situation that calls for benign neglect. When it dies back (which
mine have done already) cut it off at the ground.
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Thanks!

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

feed it bulb food (a teaspoon is fine, worked into the soil around where the
bulb is) in the fall..........
madgardener

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We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect." Chief Seattle
"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

Isn't it also wise to clip off the seed pods? (Keep the plant from using energy
to create seeds, but rather re-build and multiply at the bulb?)

From: "madgardener"


feed it bulb food (a teaspoon is fine, worked into the soil around where the
bulb is) in the fall..........
madgardener

--
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect." Chief Seattle
"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
...
OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

Isn't it also wise to clip off the seed pods? (Keep the plant from using energy
to create seeds, but rather re-build and multiply at the bulb?)

From: "madgardener"


feed it bulb food (a teaspoon is fine, worked into the soil around where the
bulb is) in the fall..........
madgardener

--
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect." Chief Seattle
"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
...
OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

TOM KAN PA wrote:
OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?




Sorry Tom, there isn't a way to force them to bloom again
this season. The only thing I do to mine is mix some bulb
food with the soil when I plant my fall bulbs (usually late
October; the Stargazers are in the same bed as the spring
bulbs).

The Stargazer's foliage will die back so don't worry when
you see it turn brown. You do need to keep an eye on it and
if it you a seed pod forming you want to break it off (it
saps strength from the bulb).
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

Digital Camera: HP PhotoSmart 850

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Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

TOM KAN PA wrote:
OK, the Stargazer has bloomed and the petals have fallen.
What should be done now? Any way to encourage another bloom this year?




Sorry Tom, there isn't a way to force them to bloom again
this season. The only thing I do to mine is mix some bulb
food with the soil when I plant my fall bulbs (usually late
October; the Stargazers are in the same bed as the spring
bulbs).

The Stargazer's foliage will die back so don't worry when
you see it turn brown. You do need to keep an eye on it and
if it you a seed pod forming you want to break it off (it
saps strength from the bulb).
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

Digital Camera: HP PhotoSmart 850

For pictures of my garden flowers visit
http://members.iglou.com/brosen

Remove NO_WEEDS_ in e-mail address to reply by e-mail

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

I have no seed pods on either plant. The blossoms lasted close to two weeks
then fell off petal by petal.

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

I have no seed pods on either plant. The blossoms lasted close to two weeks
then fell off petal by petal.

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

I have no seed pods on either plant. The blossoms lasted close to two weeks
then fell off petal by petal.

Care of Stargazer after it bloomed????
 

"TOM KAN PA" wrote in message
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I have no seed pods on either plant. The blossoms lasted close to two
weeks
then fell off petal by petal.


Same here. I have red and yellow. They didn't set seed. I cut them back
today when I did some general clean-up and weeding. They bloomed around the
second week in June and they died back to the ground already. My sister who
lives in NE Ohio said that hers are blooming now.