Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Can anybody suggest what I can do to help my hydrageana's to bloom?

I live near Dallas, TX. My hydrageana's are watered everyday, and receive morning sun. They just are not blooming. I would appreciate any advice on what I can do to make my hydrageanas bloom.Can anybody suggest what I can do to help my hydrageana's to bloom?
Have you added any fertilizer? Miracle-Gro sells a great Acid loving plant food that will not only help it bloom, but also achieve the rare color of blue to the flowers!Can anybody suggest what I can do to help my hydrageana's to bloom?
My Dad sprinkles baking soda around the plant, and it produces vibrant colors, this may help it bloom too, not sure. Maybe try and buy some plant food that is specificly for blooming flowers.





Good Luck :0)
Buy hormones for them!!!
how long ago did you plant them? or are they potted? sometimes they wait till the year after too bloom...also you can try plant food or fertilizers..sometimes your soil is just missing the nutrients for it to thrive..and if that doesn't work try moving it to a different area of your yard.
Root trimming may induce blooms. You can shock them into blooming. Hope it helps. The Annebelle respond well to this, I'm not so sure about the Niko blue's.
They need a good soil but if you want them blue use aluminum sulfate and they take about 4 years to start to become a bush. Mine are a couple years old and they get 2-3 blooms on them and that is all. They can take part shade and maybe water them every other day. Never cut the bush down at the end of the season but prune off the old blooms at the end of blooming.I live in zone 5 and they grow fine.
I'm not sure what the problem is but I live in Oklahoma and they're not blooming here either. There is a house in my town that has a ton of them and they are usually beautiful, but they don't have a single bloom.
talk to them,its just a saying but maybe if u put manure on the edges it stinks but it works!good luck
pour urea on the side.... do not urine directly to the plant!! the heat will kill the plant. Cow dung is good.
THREE COMMON REASONS


MOPHEAD HYDRANGEAS FAIL TO BLOOM:


A late spring freeze arrives and ruins the developing bloom buds. The freeze may be light and even go unnoticed until one realizes that the blooms are not forming. Or it may kill all the emerging leaves, too. As a result, most of the new growth comes from the roots (as in the picture above). When this occurs, you know you have a problem.





Most flower buds develop on the old stems. Once these stems are damaged in a late freeze, new flowers will not appear until the following year and only then if it is a milder spring. (This is the rule for the vast majority of mopheads [macrophyllas] but there are exceptional hydrangeas that will bloom despite this damage)





Go to Winter Protection for information on covering your hydrangea for winter protection








Improper pruning. If you have pruned your hydrangea this year, you may want to check out the section on Pruning Hydrangeas to see if this could be the problem.








Planted in wrong zone. If you have had the bad luck to plant a hydrangea that has never bloomed after the first year, you may finally have to concede that this particular variety is not cold hardy in your area. Another variety may succeed famously, or you may have no luck with mophead hydrangeas. If your hydrangea has never bloomed, don't give up hope. See What Type Hydrangeas Can I Grow?





I have found that often the hydrangea that is not cold hardy was received as a gift or bought wrapped in foil. This is a sign that it is directly out of a greenhouse and may not be adapted to your location. Some ';gift type'; hydrangeas are perfectly hardy, depending on where you live. But one will be much more successful in growing hydrangeas if he/she will purchase them from a local nursery. Local nurseries try to stock hydrangeas that are known to do well in the area. It also helps to ask the nurseryman (it pays to shop where there is an expert!) if this particular hydrangea is temperamental to cold weather.

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