Are glads supposed to get this tall?

I have never had one get so tall before. This one measures about 64".

Cindy

WOW! It's not unheard of....mine get 4+ ft. Looks like you need to get that staked soon before you lose it. :-)
Lovely color

When gladiolus like it where they are and the size you planted is large enough, then indeed they can grow to 5 or 6 feet tall. If protected from the elements, I've seen them as tall as 7 feet.

Wow, that's unbelievable. I planted it in a new place this year. Must like its new home. Thanks.

Beautiful! And I see it's not even staked! Great one, hemlady. That thumb of yours must be greener than you thought.:)

hi hemlady... yes i had several new glads this year grow 6 foot also with no staking and we get wind... they even put up with the cats playing in them.. i know there is a variety that get 3 to 4 ft and then the giant glads that get 5 to 6 ft (sometimes 7 ft) tall... i planted 400 glads this year and some just didnt grow right,.. while others grew great! i know when i dig them up there is gonna be a TON of babies!!! (: i would like to move all the glads all near each other,..to give them more of a wow effect... (: do u grow many glads? is that glad precillia (sp?)
chrissy

Love glads. Several of ours reached 6' this season. Does anyone know how long it takes the babies to reach flowering size? I had several seedlings pop up.

Probably the third year

sue are u sure its a seedling and not a cormel? i have had the small cormels bloom this year, ones that were given to me this year... seedlings bloom the second year... sometimes in our warmer zone i have heard of seedlings blooming the same year..
chrissy

This message was edited Sep 8, 2004 3:48 PM

I don't know............... they look like little blades of grass. When I pull them, there is the tiniest little bulb at the end. And then I have some larger ones that came up next to last years bloomers. The leaves reached 1-2 feet, but produced no flower stalk.

hi sue , when i pulled my baby glads up to move them to another bed (because of gophers) the seedlings that i had planted then pulled, has no bulb, but a white root, with the tiniest white round thing at the bottom (i imagine what whould become a bulb) the other younge glads i pulled at the base where the very small (almost tiny but not as tiny tiny as the seedlings) but still looked like glad corms only REAAAALLLY REAALLLY SMALL...lol.. have u ever dug ur corms up to divide them? if so then u know what i am talking about.....

Those tiny white rounded things at the bottom of the roots ARE the cormels and will develop into a full corm. As bleek said, it may take 3 years to bloom