I have some gerberas and I looked online to see how to dead head them and I read that you are supposed to cut the stem at the height of the tallest leaf and then the flower should bloom again. Well I have done this, and it doesn't seem to want to grow back. Is there something else to do?
Also, how are you supposed to dead head geraniums? Do you take the little stem off, just the petals, or from below the little stems?
Thanks :)
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Mary Anne! I will try your suggestions tonight!
And hopefully my gerberas will start cooperating :)
is just to break off the flower head (all of it) where the short stem supporting it joins the main stem -- you will see a kind of wrinkle all around the end of the short tem, and you can just break it off there.
About Gerberas, I don't know. But for most flowers, where there is a stem with leaf sets and then the flower stem comes out of the last (highest), usually pair, of leaves, is where you cut the stem. Then the cells at the base of the old stem and the leaves will be stimulated to produce another pair of "top leaves", or new branches, if you will, and they will go on to produce more flowers. Does that make sense? Don't know why your Gerberas are not cooperating.