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Chocolate mint blooming
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Posted by ania_ca 10 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 3, 09 at 10:21
| I have a chocolate mint patch on my hill and it is starting to bloom. Is it important to cut the flower heads off?
If it seeds itself, it won't grow true, right?
Ania |
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RE: Chocolate mint blooming
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| Chocolate mint, like all M xpiperita, is sterile, so it won't produce seed at all. It will aggressively spread via runners though. Cutting the flowers will trigger it to grow more leaves. F. DeBaggio |
RE: Chocolate mint blooming
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| Glad to hear that. My mint is on a hill in my yard and I didn't really want to climb up to cut all the flower heads off if I didn't have to. Ania |
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