chrysanthemums not flowering YET

Need some advice/answers.

Have many chrysanthemums all in flower now, putting on a good show.

However, have 3 right in front of garden loaded with buds but no bloom yet. Haven't a clue of any names atall. Some from Morden though.

Is this happening with anyone else? All receive the same treatment, all were pinched back till end of July so are well shaped - not floppy BUT -- what do I do for next year.

They all get full sun till 2PM approx, then dappled shade through trees. Planted in 4 way mix. Maybe that is too rich????
Inanda - watching wet snow fall

I have 3 in full bloom right now! Sitting in pots on my front steps! From Safeway! LOL! Its the only way I can have really nice mums - they just dont seem to do well in our short growing seasons - my solutions is buy them already flowering!

I have 8 different chrysanthemums in my gardens. Seven of them bloom at the expected time, but one is so late every year that I always think it's not going to at all! I don't know what its name is either, but it will eventually bloom for me. I have tried everything with this plant and nothing I do makes any difference at all good, bad or indifferent, so I don't know what you can do about it. I can see, though, why it would be a particular concern for you in your zone. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
--Ginny

Edited for stupid spelling error :-)

This message was edited Oct 5, 2005 10:44 AM

I remember reading about day length sensitivity in mums. I don't think that is a factor in Morden mums, but if you don't know what they are?......Some are affected by street lights even. Have no idea if this could be for yours. I have one that's just started to bloom a few days ago, never pinched, and not a Morden. I think some are just too late for our climate, even if they might be hardy.

oh inanda, you used that four letter S word. My condolences to you and others in the same perdicament.

Linda, watching the rain and waiting for the wind.

Maybe street lights streetlights. Will cover them next year to see if that helps. Or take cuttings from yours, echoes.

Inanda

Edited to say, Will ASK you for cuttings from yours.

This message was edited Oct 5, 2005 11:41 AM

Yes of course, if I have any that you don't already.
This one is just for you. What its like out here at the moment. Travelers beware?

This message was edited Oct 5, 2005 12:32 PM

And this.

Wow! As much as I dislike winter, I have to admit those pictures are absolutely beautiful! Maybe there's a true Canadian buried somewhere deep inside me after all :-)

I have a number of mums purchased as small plants (in bloom) last spring. All are now covered with buds, but only a couple have started blooming in spite (or maybe because ) of the the warm weather we've been having - smashing heat records for this time of year most of this week.

Ann

Hi.

My mums are over 80% still in buds. The rest have begun flowering in the last few days. We're experiencing higher than usual temperatures this week (all summer, actually). I'm not worried about it because there's nothing I can do.

Eventually, I will use my time-honoured trick of going by each plant, shaking it to attract its attention and telling it that it can easily be replaced with fake blooms from the Dollar Store. That always worked for me. Talking to your plants is not limited to encouraging them. I found that threatening them also works.

Inanda and Echoes, mentionning and showing snow reminded me that we have 2 seasons in Canada: First, there's winter and then there soon-it-will-be-winter-again. We're done with winter. The house is up for sale and we're moving permanently to our Florida condo. Anyone want to buy a nice bungalow in Montreal with a nice perennial-filled garden?

Take care.
Sylvain.

ROTFL!!! Sylvain, that reminds me of a time when I was a teenager and I had a rubber plant that was slowly fading away no matter what I did. My mother told me that I should try talking to it. So from then on, every time I walked by it I would glare at it and say, "Grow darn it!" LOL It promptly up and died within a week. Of course, it just might have had something to do with the fact that it did not like its location on top of the television set too.
--Ginny (the other one)

This message was edited Oct 6, 2005 9:24 AM

LOL for giving plants a shake up!
My mum had a little Xmas cactus that never flowered after lst year. Eventually I got it after a bumpy car ride from Saskatoon to Calgary. I shook it our, loosened the roots, repotted it, hung it in the east kitchen window and said do or die! 6 mos later it did! Big time! And now almost 10 years later it is huge, still hanging in the east window and flowering twice every winter! I'm all for giving recalcitrant plants a shake up!

Ginnylynn, thanks I'm glad you liked the photos, but am having a little problem seeing the view from the same pleasant perspective. Being without power for over seven hours last night did not help.

Sylvain, you are definitely a gardener with attitude. Love it.

Must try giving some of my plants a shake now and then. Last night some of them got a bit of a cold shock when the greenhouse door blew open and I couldn't see it. Plus no power for the heater. Maybe that will have the same effect?

No, actually the effect of that could be rigor mortis or whatever we call it in plants. How did you manage to go from +24C one week to blizzard the next , you're no where near Alberta!

You ask the weather maker up there.

Hi.

I just want to say I didn't invent the "Shake and threaten" method. I distinctly remember a specific Canadian Gardener show on the CBC many years ago. They were visiting the Royal Botanical Gardens somewhere in England and marveling at a display of rhododendrons there. The head curator told the host that they had planted 2 or 3 specimens. Although they were alive, they didn't thrive. They tried everything until one day a gardener shook and threatened to rip out each individual plant if they didn't grow.

I looked at my wife and told her I was going outside to shake and threaten a Mountbatten juniper, explaining that if it didn't grow, we'd have to cut it down and replace it. That thing started growing that very week. It's now at least 20 ft high.

I added the dollar store detail later on to really shame them into growing. Hey, it works!

Sylvain.