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Depended on the growing zone sounds like in the US it's fall. There are so many species.
Mums are beautiful and u can take cuttings from them . Pull the last 3-4 leaves off a fitting, dip in growing hormone . Place in sterile damp growing medium. Keep temps 60-70 indirect light and spritz leaves .After a few weeks a little tugging on the cutting if showing root growth...then plant several root cuttings in a large round pot in good well draining sterile potting soil. During the growing pinch of the new leaf growth to thicken the plant and encourage branching. Keep temps in 65' and indirect lighting. Water and fertilize lightly when plant is dry to touch. DONOT over water.
Then by next fall u will have another beautiful blooming chrysanthemum . Walla!
Pitt,
I planted just the regular mums that aren't expensive from Home Depot, a small
pot, after they were done blooming in the fall.
In the spring, they bloomed.
I had NO idea they bloomed in spring. They do!
Everyone throws them out, so they don't know.
Then, I cut it back for the summer heat, and low and behold,
the fall it has blooms again.
Just a plain old purple one.
It didn't say hardy mum on it, I have had it for 4 years now.
This fall I bought a mum from Walmart.
It had a nice pink color to it.
I'm planting it up as soon as the plant stops blooming, right
in the garden, and mulching. I'll see it that blooms too.
A lady down the street from me has mums that grew 4 ft tall!
Wow! I guess if you don't cut them back, they will get really big.
Didn't know that, but I always cut mine back.
Great job. Your mums have bloomed 4 u for the cooler seasons. As long as u cut off the spent blooms they will bloom again. Always when u cut back the growing stems that is what encourages more stems to grow equals a thicker plants.
I cut off 3-4 inches from them every spring. Peal off the last two leaves fot root growth.
Place the in sterile soil they root up. Then plant in pots for more plants and blooms next fall.
I had hardy mums for many years ...Sometimes if they aren't besieged by destructive bugs. Then the deer or gophers get them. Not to mention the Herd of elk,that come down in late fall.
Also mum roots are used in many medications to treat disease.
I always get two different successive blooms from mums cause I religiously deadhead. Then I heel them in their pots in soil and mulch well. I have had some for years.
Mums are a great fall plants. It's like wit-nit wrote some good stuff here.
Just wondered if u have resolved the wilted mum issue yet?
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