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Too darn short!
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Posted by Bigred z8 Ark. (My Page) on Tue, Jun 7, 05 at 14:44
| I just don't know what I did wrong!I started "Butterfly"snaps fron seed back in Dec.watered,fertilized,pinched, then planted them out first of March,ammending the planting area w/ peat and compost....tossed in fertiler,made sure they had support,hoed the weeds...sat back and waited for 36 inch tall flower stems the thickness of a buggy whip and all I got was stems barely 18 inches tall and thin.....but all prefectly straight. I could have swore the description said they'd get 24-36 inches tall. What happened?
My glads are turning yellow and my rudbeckias got knocked over by a storm!Am I having fun yet?
PP |
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RE: Too darn short!
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| MY snaps were all thin and short last year and this year they are growing tall and straight! I think it might be that we are a =having an excessively cool and cloudy MAy and early June, where as last year we had a very warm one. I have read that snaps like cool weather. |
RE: Too darn short!
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Liza,
Same here...May warm days/cool nights,little rain now June is already a scorcher so maybe that's the problem. Luckily this year's flowers are just a trial run while everything gets back to normal since the DH is back home after working 300 miles away for the passed year.Maybe I can actually be back to some kind of normal for cut flower sales next year. Doesn't hurt to plan ahead. PP |
RE: Too darn short!
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| That is the problem. Too warm in May. Our snaps in the field are 12" tall. They are 36" in the hoophouse. The snaps in the hoophouse were planted when it was still cold. It is a scorcher of a month here in Michigan as well.... |
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