Can you prune your chrysanthemums

Answer 1

Garden chrysanthemums-late or otherwise come back year after year. The key to keeping them looking good is cutting them back. If you're too softhearted to prune, your chrysanthemums will bloom twice-in spring and autumn. However, they'll have long, floppy stems with pitiful little flowers. In late winter, cut dead stems to the ground. New leaves will sprout from underground roots. In mid spring, when chrysanthemums fill out with leaves and flower buds, shear plants down to 8 inches tall. Around the Fourth of July, prune and shape them by pinching off soft green stem tips. Test to make sure you're tipping only soft tissue by pinching the stems with your fingernails, and take off only that pliable part of the stem. Then, let the mums grow. They'll develop flower buds for brilliant bloom when you want it, in late autumn.

Answer 2

Cut back chrysanthemums now for more fall blooms

1. Cut the buds off mums around July 4 to create more flowers in fall. Monica Milla | Contributor.
2. Several buds grow off one stem. Make your cut at the base of the stem, as shown by the pink lines. ...
3. For tiny or non-emerged buds, let paler, more gray foliage guide you.

The old years top growth is redundant so you should cut it off. The new years growth will sprout from the rootstock in Spring. This only applies where the Winter is mild enough for the rootstock to survive.
Sure, if you trim them back before mid August they should reset blooms before fall.

Answer 3

Chrysanthemums need plenty of sunshine. Plant them where they will get sunshine but do not plant them where street lights will affect their growth. They are triggered to bloom as the days begin to grow shorter.

Answer 4

It is best to prune off any flower buds that appear in early summer or there will not be as many flowers in fall.

Answer 5

You can prune your chrysanthemum but you need to do it at the correct time or you will not get flowers.

Answer 6

You cut back your chrysanthemum after it has completely died off for the year. Usually around November.

Answer 7

I water it once a week and have it sitting on the table in a sunny area.

Answer 8

I like to do it in the spring when you see new growth, but if you don't want to wait, you can do it in the fall after the leaves turn brown.

Answer 9

Don't prune your chrysanthemums after July 1st. Otherwise they won't bloom in the fall.

Answer 10

You can prune chrysanthemums in the fall after blooming.