ChatterBank1 min ago
Cosmos - No Flowers
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Any advice please. I planted Cosmos seeds and pricked out when necessary and then planted out in garden bed. They are very healthy looking, lots of foliage. Some are about two feet tall, others not far behind. However there is not a single bud or flower on any of them. Comments please.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Some discussion here (although, admittedly, it seems to come down to a lot of head scratching!):
https:/ /forum. gardene rsworld .com/di scussio n/10039 77/cosm os-stur dy-and- full-bu t-no-fl owers
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Tomato feed (for future years) is recommended by The Grauniad:
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Dodgy seed, as back in 2003, perhaps?
https:/ /www.te legraph .co.uk/ gardeni ng/howt ogrow/3 315412/ A-disap pointin g-year- for-the -cosmos .html
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Tomato feed (for future years) is recommended by The Grauniad:
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Dodgy seed, as back in 2003, perhaps?
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As long as it was not old seed or seed that was past it's best by date you should still get blooms. Takes on average about 7 weeks. Mine are just starting to show buds now...but they are not 2ft tall. Been hard to predict this year what with the scorching spring and then bleedin freezing cold interspersed with gales and downpours. That is enough to stop cosmos maturing.
Mine are slow to flower this year but I see buds about to open and this morning I was greeted with a gorgeous white cosmos, there are purple, and pinks about to bloom to, my friend is like you, she bought seeds for her parents when garden centres were closed and she never had cosmos (it was on my suggestion she bought them) and her parents think she got sold weeds but I have been sending her updates of mine and today she says there is buds and they are about to bloom, just have patience I would say