Need more blossoms!!!

I, TX(Zone 8a)

This is my very first post here and I am glad to be here.
Now, I have a Moy Grande hibiscus that has just finished its first round of blooms. My question is, if I were to cut all of the seed pods off would it encourage more ends to form flower buds? Hope that makes sense to some of you cause I am not sure if it does to me...
Any how I just love them and they have been so pretty even with the drought that we are in that I would love to have more blooms.
Any ideas are appreciated.

Kim

Gamleby, Sweden(Zone 7a)

I purchased Moy Grande seeds a couple of weeks ago and got a long description both regarding how it came about and how to care for it etc. and it say that in order to promote rebloom remove the old blossoms and developing seedpods.
Janett

Union City, CA(Zone 9b)

Mine doesn't have flushes , just a flower , then 3 or 4 then another and so on . I never get seeds .
I have a single red 1 foot tall[ has flowers ] , a single pink , yellow 2 feet tall [ no flowers yet ] and a double pink 5 feet tall [ has 7 or 8 flowers ]
All have flowers then they fall off .

Gamleby, Sweden(Zone 7a)

I dont know if this apply to hardy Hibiscus but when that happens it usually depends on "to dry" or "uneven watering" can that be the case.
Iknow it was that way when i grew tropical Hibs.
Janett

I, TX(Zone 8a)

Thanks all. The first blooms always come in what looks like a cluster sort of. I will go out and cut some of them off and see what happens. The blossoms are so pretty and huge and I want more of them.
I have had this one for about 4 years and it just keeps coming back. Gotta love the perrineal ones.

Have a good 4th everyone and be safe.

Kim

Norwalk, IA(Zone 5b)

Kim sometimes if you cut the whole stem back after the last flowers more side shoots will develop.cut back about a foot below the tip.

I, TX(Zone 8a)

I did that and now I will wait and see what happens. We have had a few days of sprinkles so I am hoping that they will come back and bloom again.

Kim

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