I bought this sad looking datura because I had not seen another better looking one to buy............ it already had a ??seed pod?? on it and no buds in sight. Well, now I have 2 more seed pods and have had NO BLOOMS EVER!!! How is that possible?
Tonny, what is going on???
take them off and feed it blooming food. ?
This is a form of D. tatula with light green leaf and fruits in the same color. It is similar to one that I grew in 2001, but it is not catalogized yet. I call it "Pale leaf".
The buds can be trapped inside the calyx and selfpollinate there. If the plant needs water or fertilizer, the buds can be too small and and deformed and you will not see the flowers come out. So tiG is right. Feed it good ... but I don`t know, if it is neccesarry to cut the seedpods. My Datura plants will bloom very well even with a hundred pods on. The only thing, that stop Datura from blooming is long, cool periods. They will form buds, but looses them again. D. wrightii and D. meteloides are the first to loose buds, but in the late fall even D. stramonium starts to loose them. LOL D. stramonium is the most cool hardy Datura and when it starts to loose them, don`t exspect your other Datura species to bud.
THANKS TONNY!!!
I will do as tiG says...........feed feed and feed!