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- Q.Hydrangeas Quit Blooming A Few Years Ago - None
- Q.Would You Explain Why When I Bring In My Cuttings Of Hydrangeas They Wilt After 1day Thank You - HYDRANGEAS PLANT CUTTINGS
- Q.Please Refer To My Previous Question (that You Answered): Does My Plant Get The Right Amount Of Sun? - Thank you for partially answering my previous question. I still need to know: Are three+ hours of late afternoon sun ...
- Q.I Have Had Nikki Blue Hydrangeas In The Ground For 4 Years And They Have Never Bloomed - They are beautiful plants (8) and very healthy. About 4’ tall. What do I do to get blooms? Thank you
- Q.I Cut Back My Hydrangeas And Didn\’t Have Any Blooms This Year. Should I Leave Them Alone Wait Until Spring To Cut Back,? - They look beautiful and have grown a lot, just no blooms.
- Q.Hydrangea Did Not Have Flowers This Year But Green Leaves Are Abundant. Why? - I did not have a single flower just lots of leaves
- Q.Why As My Hydrangea’s Not Bloomed - How do I improve my hydrangea
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July 14, 2022- Answered by
luis_pr on
July 14, 2022A.Hydrangeas can fail to bloom for many reasons. Not knowing what type of hydrangea it is and it’s cultivar name, consider and research these possibilities: growing in dense shade; applying too much fertilizer; growing out of zone; pruning at the wrong time; winter or frost damage/injury to stems; pests that eat the flower buds; etc.
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SUNNYLEO19 on
July 17, 2022
Brookhaven New York 11719Q.Would You Explain Why When I Bring In My Cuttings Of Hydrangeas They Wilt After 1day Thank You
HYDRANGEAS PLANT CUTTINGS
Answered by
BushDoctor on
July 18, 2022
Certified ExpertA.Cuttings will have no roots to replace lost moisture, so any moisture lost will show as wilting. Covering with something to keep humidity in while still allowing for some airflow can help reduce the number of cuttings lost.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/hydrangea-propagation.htm
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hnargang on
July 20, 2022
60914Q.Please Refer To My Previous Question (that You Answered): Does My Plant Get The Right Amount Of Sun?
Thank you for partially answering my previous question. I still need to know: Are three+ hours of late afternoon sun harmful to the plant? It gets dappled sun light until 3:00pm. Should I dead-head ALL of the flowers? How soon after dead-heading does the plant form new flowers on new smooth stems? Do they form those smooth stem and 2nd flush of flowers the first year? Do those stems die off? Also what does "remontant" mean? (versus reblooming) Thank you very much, Hannah Nargang
- Answered by
BushDoctor on
July 20, 2022
Certified ExpertA.This collection of articles will help you to fill in any gaps.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea
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Anonymous on
July 27, 2022Q.I Have Had Nikki Blue Hydrangeas In The Ground For 4 Years And They Have Never Bloomed
They are beautiful plants (8) and very healthy. About 4’ tall. What do I do to get blooms? Thank you
- Answered by
GKH_Susan on
July 28, 2022
Certified ExpertA.It's usually a pruning problem or the "old wood" dying to the ground in winter. Nikko blue is in the macrophylla group and it blooms on last year's buds. Also, they need at least part sun.
This article should help:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/hydrangea-not-blooming.htm
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Anonymous on
July 30, 2022Q.I Cut Back My Hydrangeas And Didn\’t Have Any Blooms This Year. Should I Leave Them Alone Wait Until Spring To Cut Back,?
They look beautiful and have grown a lot, just no blooms.
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GKH_Susan on
August 5, 2022
Certified ExpertA.Don't prune them again till you see when they bloom. If they bloom in the spring, prune them immediately after blooming. These are typically the big leaf hydrangeas (macrophylla). Endless Summer also blooms in spring then again in late summer. Here is information about when to prune your hydrangeas:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/common-hydrangea-varieties.htm
https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/yardandgarden/hydrangea-popular-but-confusing/
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August 12, 2022Q.Hydrangea Did Not Have Flowers This Year But Green Leaves Are Abundant. Why?
I did not have a single flower just lots of leaves
- Answered by
luis_pr on
August 12, 2022A.Hydrangea macrophyllas in your zone 7B can fail to bloom for various reasons: unusually cold winters; some cultivars are more sensitive to winter/frost: florist hydrangeas, variegated cultivars; some of the Teller Hybrids; the plant breaks dormancy and temperatures suddenly crash (common in Atlanta in February or early March; too much nitrogen rich fertilizer; fertilizing too late in the growing season, which keeps the plant in ‘grow mode’ just as early frosts arrive and kill flower buds (your last fertilizer application should occur 3 months before your average date of first frost: the average date falls on weeks 3-4 of October so your last application should occur on weeks 3-4 of July); improper pruning (hydrangeas that bloom on old wood -if they need pruning for some unusual reason- should be pruned soon after the plant stops opening more new blooms in spring. If the hydrangea is a rebloomer, its new spring stems should not be pruned at all. Watch out for pests that nibble on the flower buds (deer, squirrels and bunnies). Very dense shade may reduce blooms. Since flower buds for spring 2023 were created in summer 2022, diseases present in the summer of 2022 or inconsistent watering at that time could have killed spring 2023 flower buds.
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August 18, 2022Q.Why As My Hydrangea’s Not Bloomed
How do I improve my hydrangea
- Answered by
BushDoctor on
August 18, 2022
Certified ExpertA.Unfortunately, this is a complex issue that depends on quite a few different things. There isn't enough information about the area, conditions around the plant, zone, and other information to give a good answer. I can give you a good starting point, though.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/hydrangea/hydrangea-not-blooming.htm
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