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Forsythia not flowering?
I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back
sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? Rhiannon |
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Forsythia not flowering?
In article , Rhiannon Macfie Miller
writes I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? Some shrubs flower on old wood. I don't recall whether Forsythia is one, but what you say suggests this. For such shrubs you either prune immediately after flowering, or you prune some branches hard, and leave the others alone (for pruning in a later year). Most spring flowering shrubs should be pruned after flowering, not later in the year. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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Forsythia not flowering?
Methinks you already suspect where you have gone wrong.
Forsythia flowers on old wood ie last years wood. Try and restrict pruning to immediately after flowering, July is a bit late as you have found out. It can be a bit of a nuisance leaving the shrub growing but that is where the latent flower buds are. Jim 2 "Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message ... I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? Rhiannon |
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Forsythia not flowering?
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:22:12 +0000, Rhiannon Macfie Miller
wrote: I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? Hi, Others have commented on the fact that Forsythia flowers on older wood and should be pruned immediately after flowering. If left to its own devices F. becomes a veritable thicket - very tangled and thereby somewhat destroying the potential of having graceful arcs festooned with flowers. I think the overall strategy is to cut away to almost ground level the wood which is already three or four years old. This will encourage shoots from the base. Don't be afraid to do this to old wood in the centre of the shrub - in fact this opens it out nicely and prevents the development of thicket in the centre. Next up, of the next oldest wood, shorten a *selection* (your choice through experience how many - perhaps one on three) to about a third or a half. Leave all of last seasons growth - bearing in mind that this is what you can be sure to carry flowers the next year. Some of the growth which will spurt into action after the pruning may also mature sufficiently to bear flowers. I am wondering if an F. can be trained into a standard so that it sprays from the top of a sturdy single bole. If I have given any advice which is wrong or misguided I trust someone will jump in. Grow a little garden Hussein |
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Forsythia not flowering?
Hello Rhiannon
In article , Rhiannon Macfie Miller wrote: I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? July was a bit late to prune the common forsythias, but there are are several different forsythias. Most of them if you cut them back after flowering, they make nice new shoots which flower the next Spring. However there is at least one which I inherited from my father that flowers on 2 year old wood only. With this one if you want a display every year you have to cut back half of the branches each year. I do not know the variety name, but it is definitely worth growing. The flowers are actually on short laterals from the two year old wood, so you get magnificent flowering spikes. John -- EurIng J Rye CEng FIEE Electrical Engineering Consultant 18 Wentworth Close Hadleigh IPSWICH IP7 5SA England Tel No 01473 827126 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jrye/index.html --- On Line using an Acorn StrongArm RiscPC --- |
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Forsythia not flowering?
"Jim Paterson" wrote in message ... Methinks you already suspect where you have gone wrong. Forsythia flowers on old wood ie last years wood. Try and restrict pruning to immediately after flowering, July is a bit late as you have found out. It can be a bit of a nuisance leaving the shrub growing but that is where the latent flower buds are. Jim 2 "Rhiannon Macfie Miller" wrote in message ... I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? Rhiannon And if you stick the stem prunings into soil, they root very easily, and you will get new forsythia shrubs - if you have space for them. Bevan |
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Forsythia not flowering?
Rhiannon Macfie Miller wrote in message ... I have a forsythia. Last year it flowered very nicely. I cut it back sometime around July and it shot back up again -- but now there are no flower buds on the long new shoots. There are only flowers on new short side branches from the bits I didn`t cut back. What did I do wrong? Rhiannon If you cut back after flowering and then cut a few inches off each new long shoot about mid July it will form flowering shoots all along the first new growth. Mike www.british-naturism.org.uk |
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Forsythia not flowering?
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:36:51 -0000, "Michael Berridge"
wrote: If you cut back after flowering and then cut a few inches off each new long shoot about mid July it will form flowering shoots all along the first new growth. Mike www.british-naturism.org.uk Nice one! I think I know why too.... meristems, apical dominance, auxins and giberellins. Been reading up on my botany ... Heh, heh. I don't think I will ever see plants in quite the same way again. Proof's in the pudding though. I'll try your suggestion this year. Thankee Hussein "For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture" $$$$$$ Cicero $$$$$$ |
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