I have some seedlings that I started from seeds. Two of them are quite tall, but have yet to produce flowers. Should I cut back the seedlings when they are dormant or just before going dormant. I am tempted to cut it back in half. They all all in containers. I would also like to share the cutting with friends, but I don't what exactly I am sharing. By the way, they are all seedlings of 'India' and 'Carmen'.
Clare - I took your advice from an earlier post and repotted some of them.
Seedlings - Fall/Winter Care
I know seedlings can get very big. I have some five-year-olds that are huge. It is tempting to share them, especially when they sprout five or more branches after the first nub, but the flower could be quite inferior in which case it should probably be destroyed instead of shared. That's the risk that you take with seedlings. I know hybridizers that destroy inferior seedlings by the hundreds. It's hard to imagine, but we don't want inferior flowers out there in circulation really.
Rather than destroy it
Save the bottom 20 inches and expose the roots to form a bonsai bottom you can later graft a more desirable species to.
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