Senetti advice - poor flowers

[Marb67]

Well here is another purchased plant I potted on in miracle grow multi purpose compost. When i bought it it was a textbook plant in full bloom. After some time I found the flowers were getting eaten by slugs. Also kept up with deadheading. Since then the plant has pushed up pathetic small buds that give the odd distorted flower. No longer long stems.

What can I do to get this back please ?

[roitelet]

I would cut off all those long flower stems and give it a feed. The long stems on the flowers could have been encouraged by the way it was grown before you bought it. I think that it is an annual but you may be able to encourage it to flower again this year.

[Scarlet]

Yes, it's an annual but it should flower again. Advice here is the same as Roitelet has already given.
Cut flower stems back to the foliage and wait a month for more flowers to appear. Feed with a slow release fertiliser.
Senetti

[Marb67]

Consider it done. thanks folks.

[veggiechicken]

Mine are in their 2nd year
At the end of last year they died back, so I cut them right down and shoved the pots in a corner of the GH and forgot all about them.
In the spring, they sent up new shoots and have been flowering this year. Not as stunning as when I bought them, but they have such vivid flowers that a few go a long way to brighten up the garden.
Try it Marb, no promises, but you may be lucky too.