I have a Flowering Senna (cassia) I planted around May, I think. It was a fairly good size plant, I think in a 3 gallon container. I put it in my bed next to the front door which has a good mixture of compost and soil and is mulched. It looks completely healthy, but no blooms. Not a single one since I planted it. I've been feeding it with HastaGro or occasionally John's Recipe (mixture of fish emulsion, seaweed, molasses, etc.) once or twice a month and keeping it watered but not wet. I hit it with just diluted seaweed the other day when I was putting that out to help the plants with the heat too.
I don't want to cut it back because it's in a nice tree shape now and doesn't have any branches that need to go. Oh, that reminds me, it hasn't really shown much growth since I've had it either. I know it's probably just been working on its roots, but I'd like to see some flowers this year!
I'm thinking I need to give it something that encourages blooms, but I'm not sure what. I try to stick with organics so not Miracle Grow. Any suggestions?
Flowering Senna not flowering
You probably have a fall blooming Senna, maybe Senna corymbosa, it seem to be popular and it blooms in the fall, so maybe just a little patience will take care of it.
Josephine.
That is my problem with a senna I have too! Great to know it may bloom in fall.
Oh! Okay. That's good news, i guess, although I imagined it flowering all summer. Is that the one that's more cold hardy? I had heard that there were two varieties, one that was a tender perennial and one that was more hardy.
My Flowering Senna has buds just about to open. Mine is two years old so maybe yours is just a tad behind mine being new. I bet it will get there!
Annie
Peeper--we were wondering when ours was going to bloom as well...........so we checked out the date it bloomed last year and it was July 31st. Of course we had all that good rain going into July so this year it's lagging behind a bit. But ours has started blooming some now.
Not to worry.....your plant will get there. :-)
I checked mine today and it's full of buds and has a few opened blooms.
You might cut back on the fertilization. Too much encourages growth at the expense of flowers.