i have great green foliage and feed it bloom help fertilizer this year its tall but no blooms what so ever. i dont even have a bud on them. what did i do wrong? its almost fall here and i guess no blooms for me. Imzadi
why didnt mine bloom?
Is it a seedling or a cutting?
Has it formed a Y in the stem?
This is frustrating I know,I hope you do get a bloom.
You might want to quit using the bloom fertilizer and just use plain Miracle Grow. I believe it has been said that they can get too much of the higher middle number and it builds up in the soil. If I'm not dreaming, seems like someone said that it then doesn't let the other fertilizers release for the plant. Bloom once a month should be enough. I don't use it at all, but I do fertilize a couple times a week with the MG or Peters fertilizer. I know there are people out there that know a heck of a lot more about the fertilizers than I do. I just use what works and this year, it hasn't worked very well. Bad year in Iowa with the heat and no moisture.
So sad! Do not get discouraged. Like Root said does it have a Y yet? If it is a seedlign they sure seem to take their time blooming unless you are Tracey.
I do what Brugie does, use mostly MG.
If it it has Yed, take a cutting from the top and use that for one of your plants next year and that at least should bloom fairly quickly for you!
I have decided I like above the Y cuttings from new plants so I can see them bloom fast and decide if I want that one in my collection. Then I let it sucker a tall one for me and then cut that off for my alley tree to keep.
Too much Nitrogen gives lots of growth and no flowers. I have a couple of brugs that just would not flower, they were 8ft tall. A friend said starve them, no fertilize. She said wait till they Y and make buds, then fertilize. They now have buds, so I fertilized them today.
Brugie, the Phosphorus binds with iron, aluminum or manganese(and sometimes Calcium) in the soil. Organisims in the soil change the phosphorus from organic unavailable forms into inorganic usable forms. In cool weather, the organisms can't work, so one can get phosphorus deficiency even when you've added lots of phosphorus. If your pH is greater than 7.0, the phosphorus is also unavailable to the plant because it binds with calcium but if your pH is lower than 5.5, the phosphorus is bound with iron and is still unavailable. It also depends on whether you used water-soluble forms of Phosphorus or something that is really slow acting like rock-phosphates.
its cuttings given to me. whats the Y everyone is taking about???? all i know is they are pretty tall and are one stalk no side stalks or anything. will just fertilize with mg from now on. one of them is like 6 foot tall now. i think its one of Calla she sent me back in spring. all nice green looking. will try to get its pic. imzadi
Here is a Y that we all wait for.
See, I had part of it Cala. Just can't remember that well. I know that I'm going to only use Excel next year if I can find a good source for it. Thanks for jumping in and making this information available.
well i have no Ys on mine. just a tall stalk. i have some babies i am trying to get rooted i snatched off a ladys trash pile. yes she had cut hers back and threw them away. i have one who is showing progress. yea
oh well no blooms this year for me since i have no ys. can i make it y somehow?? thanks all Imzadi
Imzadi, I didn't get very many Ys the first year either. Next year you'll have lots!
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Imzadi, I have some that bloomed this year that did just the same as your's last year. I am just now getting buds on them and they probably won't get to bloom out before frost. I also have several seedlings out in the yard that are 10 ft tall that haven't y'd or set any buds. Next year you should see blooms.
I had a seedling last year that bloomed after the first frost. It was a pretty bloom so I kept it. This year, it had a great start in the spring, probably two and a half feet tall. I just knew I was going to see several big flushes of bloom from this one. Well, it didn't. It was treated like all my other brugs and still, it didn't bloom until nearly frost time. Unfortunately, if they do this to me two years in a row, I don't keep them. I hope you have better luck than I did, Marie. You too, Patricia. It is possible that our cooler summer had something to do with it, but I don't have the room to mess with slow growers anyway.
well the one i was talking about now that i have several as of lately only bloomed once this year. still all pretty green and everything but only one bloom. its a peach one and hopefully next year. i dont know what to say. i will probaly keep it it does make a nice green plant. it will be a brugie that never blooms.