Do you have to dead head petunias and impatience plants?

Carol
by Carol



  5 answers
  • Tinyshoes Tinyshoes on May 25, 2019

    Carol....It will keep them blooming and looking prettier

  • Carol Carol on May 25, 2019

    thank you I thought I had read somewhere it wasn't necessary but does make sense to do it

  • Typically you deadhead any flowering plant. Promotes more blooms!

  • Lynn Sorrell Lynn Sorrell on May 25, 2019

    it will increase blooms,keeps plants bushier but then they will not produce any seeds. I do both so I have seeds to replant or let them fall onto ground in that area(if you want them there again)

  • Michelle Leslie Michelle Leslie on Jul 17, 2020

    Hi Carol, Pinch back to a side shoot if there is already more than one branch from the root. If there is only one growing stem, pinch back a few inches from the ground, leaving necessary leaves to feed the new growth...then feed it with a fertilizer for blooms. It should then form other branches and produce a mound of flowers rather than on long stem.