Chrysanthemum Plants/Cuttings - Going Going and Nearly Gone!!

[lynda66]

lol thanks, i have all those except the coneflower and dianthus they are all getting huge now i can't wait for them all to start flowering i'm determined to get a black standard rose bush, and a climbing one for next year .... i just wish they did more black easy to grow stuff, like crysanths ...as a lot of the non native varieties are struggling with the rain, and lack of sun

[rayj]

Never seen a "goth" chrysanth yet!

[lynda66]

well it's about time they made one

[Snadger]

Maybe if you water them with Indian Ink..........???

[lynda66]

hmmmmmm that might take a while lol ...... i know i'll get the black marker out

[rayj]

Remember growing the end of a carrot with the leaves on at school in a saucer - we used to pour red ink in and watch for the red veins in the leaves. Those were the days -before technology!!

[lynda66]

did you ever stick a daffodil bulb in a beetroot? it comes out with red stripes

[rayj]

Snadger - am I right in assuming that the Nursery would have pinched out the tops of the Chrysanths? Otherwise they couldn't have sold them as Spray. Are you going to pinch out the secondary tops as well, to enable more sprays??
Cheers!

[Snadger]

Snadger - am I right in assuming that the Nursery would have pinched out the tops of the Chrysanths? Otherwise they couldn't have sold them as Spray. Are you going to pinch out the secondary tops as well, to enable more sprays??
Cheers!

The tops hadn't been pinched out of mine but I've pinched them out. I think they are very late cuttings and wonder whether they will flower at all this year?
They are in a greenhouse in 100mm pots but haven't shown much growth yet. I think the flowering period is dictated by day length so I'll just have to wait and see I suppose.
My real reason for buying them was as a 'rootstock' for next year so I won't be too alarmed if I don't get a lot of flowers this year!

[rayj]

How are your plants doing Snadger?? Mine are now blooming and I have pinched out some of the lower shoots that formed. Happy with my purchase - another week or two and there will be sufficient to pick bunches.
Have now moved tham into the Greenhouse to give them some protection, in case of an early frost.

[Snadger]

How are your plants doing Snadger?? Mine are now blooming and I have pinched out some of the lower shoots that formed. Happy with my purchase - another week or two and there will be sufficient to pick bunches.
Have now moved tham into the Greenhouse to give them some protection, in case of an early frost.

That's really creepy........I came home today with the thought of asking you the same question!

I have also moved mine into the greenhouse today but even though they are a mass of buds only one is flowering......the yellow one.
Alas, one of them was badly attacked by large snails but should survive and give me a few cuttings. A couple have new shoots growing from the stool below ground as well now.
Now yours have coloured up are they as advertised i.e the colours and varieties?
I am not going to do as I usually do with Chrysanth stools, i.e wash off soil and dry out in boxes, instead I intend leaving them in the pots and keeping them ticking over with a view to taking cuttings as they become available.
Should make for a colourful allotment next year!

PS Can you add your location to the top right ravj........it may give me a clue as to why all yours are flowering and the majority of mine are just budded. Mine have been outside in 8" pots all summer (what there was of it!)

[rayj]

Will try and update my profile "a bit". However in the meantime, I live in Gloucestershire. Funilly enough the first of mine to bloom was the yellow as well. However I can tell from the formed buds that others will be a mixture of colours - hopefully as advertised.

[Snadger]

Just checked on ebay.........these are still being sold as plug plants!

Spray Chrysanthemum - Ellen Yellow - 5 Plug Plants on eBay, also Perennials, Plants Seeds Bulbs, Garden Plants, Home Garden (end time 10-Oct-08 12:56:42 BST)

[rayj]

But a different Nursery??

[rayj]

The last of the Xthanths to flower are the "Pinks". I already have the "Yellow", "White" and "Rust" coloured in bloom. It was a nice feeling to be able to go into the Greenhouse and pick a bunch which my wife mixed with some flowers from the garden to lay on a family grave.
How do you save the plants/cuttings for next year, Snadger??