Pinching Zinnias For Bushy Plants And More Blooms-Growing Zinnia Flowers
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2018
- In this video we will compare Zinnias that have been pinched to zinnias that were allowed to grow normally. So far, I am really happy with the results of pinching them off while the plants are young. Thanks for watching! Subscribe for more gardening videos!
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Finally! I found someone who showed what a pinched vs non pinched zinnia looks like when it grows. Thanks! This is what I needed to see 😀🌸
The birds in your garden are amazing thank you
Wow what a difference will definitely be pinching from now on! Thank you for showing it so clearly! 🥰
Thank you. This is my first year successfully planting zinnias from seed woohoo ☺
I’m growing and pinching 🤏 zinnias 🌸for the first time this year! Thanks for letting us watch and looking forward to seeing them grow for us.
ive been looking everywhere to see if i should/could pinch zinnias!! i want as many blooms as possible on my green envy and cactus flowers, thank you so much!!
Thank you I sure appreciate that information! I have never pinched them either but went through the same thing as you and still love them through the years! Now I'm really excited to pinch them and have them bloom more and be shorter
I was wondering if that could be done and so glad I found your video! I am going to be pinching mine tomorrow!
Thanks Christa. I just pinched a few of my zinnias after watching your video. I hope they grow as nice and bushy as yours.
Thank you for this video, I have been growing zinnias for many years as well and I have never pinched them early, but next year I definitely will!!
Great tips on growing zinnias. This was my first year growing so many and I'm so glad I did. Have a great week! :)
Great information and right on time as I will be planting zinnias again soon 😊
Thanks for this informative video! I just got my first Magellan Ivory and am so excited about my new little buddy
Just what I needed to know, thank you for the great info! My son planted some seeds he bought. We never grew them before, and they are flourishing.
They are one of the easiest flowers to grow. Hope you enjoy them!
Lobed the info ! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the information! I'm a beginner gardener and I have been looking for a good video to learn about pinching Zinnias. I wish I would have found this video a few months ago. I let mine grow naturally but after seeing your Zinnias, I will definitely be pinching them back next time. They look so much fuller that way! Thanks!
They turned out to be really bushy plants with lots of blooms. Some of them did fall over later in the season but oh well, can't have it all I guess.
Thank you for the tip! I am glad I checked your video.
Glad it was helpful!
Beautiful Zinnias and nice information
Very interesting 🌱✂️🌸 Maybe I'm going to do it this year as well on some 🌸🌸 Normally I just let them grow.
Zinnias are beautiful! First time growing and its going well. Mixed them with marigolds. What a pretty sight. Thanks for all your help.
You're welcome! They are one of my favorites.
Thank you. This helps me for next year.
Fabulous fabulous video. Thankyou!!
Love this video for pinching! Thsnks
Thank you for the lovely tips. This help a lot for mig . Firstime growing this comming summer.. 🌸👌👍🔔
Zinnias are my first seed grown plants and I didn’t know about pinching and now they are more than a meter tall. 😅 Will try to propagate them from leaves and do this to get shorter but bushier plants.
Beautiful
Beatiful as Always
Thank you!
Hi Christa, thank you for uploading your zinnia video, loved the pinching back tip, will be applying the same for my plants, cant wait to see the different colors that you are growing in the next video:))
I made this video because you requested a zinnia video. :) Yeah, I am looking forward to seeing them all bloom.
Yes thank you very much for fulfilling my request :))
Hermosas
My seedlings just started sprouting. I started germination last week.
Very nice video. I just love all the color combinations that zinnias come in. And thanks for the tip on pinching them. I am just getting attuned to the notion that this is really a good thing to do in general. I have heard about doing this for years, but I could never bring myself to do it. This year I pinched back peppers and sweet peas with great results. I think my zinnias are too big to pinch back now, so I'll do it next year for sure.
I understand, it is hard to do. Yeah I have pinched back peppers before too, but it has been a couple of years. I didn't know you could pinch back peas!
Well, I actually pinched SWEET peas (the ornamentals), but that brings a good experiment to try. I might try pinching English peas as well next year. It does seem a bit frustrating how tall the peas have to get (depending on the variety) before they start to send out flowers and pods.
Ha Ha! The flowers, I never grow those, they are pretty though. :)
I planted my first zinnias last year and was about to start sowing new seeds. I had a lot of floppy plants (I tried staking but they were already too wonky) and only heard about pinching out plants when I watched videos regarding dahlias. I will definitely try pinching this year; thank you for showing how to do it. Hopefully this way, I won't have to stake them!
It didn't stop all of my plants from flopping over but it did make a difference, there was definitely less floppers than usual. The very large flowered types flop for me the most. Try Queen Lime Orange if you get a chance, the flowers are smaller than varieties like Benarys or Giants of California but they are still very pretty and dahlia flowered with many layers of petals. They did a nice job of staying upright last year.
Also, the plants that I pinched were definitely fuller and bushier than the ones I didn't pinch. I think you will be happy with them, good luck!
@@ChristasGarden I have a mixed packed but I will definitely look for the Queen Lime Orange. Thank you for the suggestions! =)
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No garden is complete without zinnias for you and the butterflies to enjoy! Better go pinch mine!
They are the best, so pretty and easy to grow.
great idea, i made a fall greenhouse planting for next spring and most are tall and leggy and already blooming, i will cut off tips on half like you did and see the difference this season, thanks!
Have you ever tried grafting zinnias? Making one plant with different flower varieties?
No but that could be interesting. Are you going to try it?
@@ChristasGarden yea, could do it today lol
Totally going to do this next year its really really late for me to do this my zinnias are so big there about the size of my tomato plants and there flopping over and talking up a bunch of space and the worst thing of all I never noticed they where flopping over until it was to late because they started setting roots on the stem
I really hope that pinching low reduces the number of flopped plants, we will see. They are still beautiful, either way.
I will pinch my future ones. This years zinnias ranges from 3-6 feet. Some needed stakes and some didn’t.
great information! can you grow zinnias in the same garden in successive years? any tips to enrich the soil? I had a fabulous summer with them this year and I'm near D.C., so they will still bloom well into October.
Growing zinnias for the first time this year and I didn’t pinch them. They grew a nice 70 to 80 cm in height, gorgeous big flowers. I wonder if I’d pinch zinnia seedlings next year, if they’d get more flowers but smaller ones instead of their normal size.
Nice..oh yea my melons or growing now; it took long enough...lol
That's great!! I am happy for you, hopefully you will get some good ones. :)
Will they still grow the same height as others when pinched?
Hi... I’ve been trying to grow zinnia from seeds. Why can’t my zinnias stand up on their own like yours? Once they grow true leaves, they become leggy and start to fall to the ground. I have to use stakes to support them. I’m wondering if zinnias love fullday sun or just morning sun
Can I pinch them after they start flowering?
Excellent. I sowed 500 seeds coz i wanted my zinnias to fill the gap spaces. I may have to just pinch them to attain same results with much fewer plants
have you pinched each branch, like second or third pinches and does it bush out the plant even more? I like your videos!
Thank you! No, I haven't tried that.
do you keep pinching the new growth that branches out from one plant or just pinch once?
I just pinch once.
I never knew anything about growing Zinnias or any other flowers, my Zinnias are at least 5' tall why do the leaves at the bottom of the stem keep rotting and shriveling up or wilting??
The bottom of the leaves on my zinnias are brown and some of the flowers aren't blooming fully why and is this normal
Also...zinnias root when they fall over...something i have ever taken advantage of. Healthy looking one. Do u fertilize them
.do u soray for anything.
No I never fertilize them and I don't spray anything.
How many times to pinching zinnia plant
Do you have to punch the side stems too or just the first stem?
I just pinch the main stem once. After that, just cut off any flowers that have passed their prime to encourage new blooms.
Plant closer together help support one another longer straighter stems
Yes that helps as well! The downside is less air circulation, which can be a problem for anyone living in a humid or fungus/mildew prone climate. I know a lot of people get mildew on their zinnias.
Christa's Garden I spray for powdery mildew once a week after a complete cut of garden
How long do the new flowers take to come after cutting the old ones?
Not long, there is usually always new flower buds forming throughout the growing season.
How long do flowers last? Are they the type that just last one day, and then new ones bloom?
No they last a long time in the garden, usually a couple of weeks before they start looking a little rough. Once they start looking bad just deadhead those flowers. You can also cut the for the vase, they have a good vase life.
@@ChristasGarden Ok. thx
do zinnias attract bees ? can I pinch cosmos the same ?
Yes they attract butterflies and bees. I have never pinched my cosmos back so not really sure about that.
Hi my name is Abdullah from Pakistan. Plz unswer me. Can January month zinnias seeds growing?
How tall did the pinched back zinnias eventually grow?
It depends on what varieties you are growing and their particular genetics as well as your growing conditions. My Benarys zinnias were pinched back and they are over 5 feet tall right now.
@@ChristasGarden Thanks, so pinching back does not reduce the ultimate hight of the plant like it does with phlox or joe pie weed.
I don’t know what you mean by ‘true’ leaves. A leaf is a leaf to me. Explain please? Thank you 😀
Normally, it's the second set of leaves after it sprouts
What Hen Peckedlizard said. The first set of leaves are called cotyledons.
@@ChristasGarden Quote:-"Cotyledons are embryonic leaves inside seeds. These are first leaves of plants." unquote. So Christa video mentioned that pinching was done just above the second true leaves correctly shows it was done on the third level..i.e. 1st level -cotyledons(leave), 2nd level - first set of true leaves, and 3rd level- second set of true leaves.
Thank you Christa for this invaluable video which clear my doubts as to what is the best way to pinch my Zinnias as I am a first timer.
Keep up your good work Christa.
Why are my zinnia leaves getting brown dry and crunchy!?
I would like to know too.
It will definitely work or not????
I am not sure what you are asking? Pinching zinnias creates a bushier plant with more stems, I show this in the video. If that doesn't answer your question , let me know.
@@ChristasGarden actually i tried this ...but the growth of the plant stopped... that's why I am asking it... whether i am having a different type of zinnia or i don't know what's the problem?
@@ChristasGarden u belong to which country?
Hi! Can you suggest how to save my zinnias they are affected by fungus very badly, all the leaves are turning brown gradually, the more I remove them more the rest are becoming brown. I have sprayed fungicide three days back still didnot see any improvement.
I am wondering the same thing!
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Better net those.flowers.
I should but I never do. The Queen Lime Orange zinnias stayed upright very nicely because the flowers aren't huge and heavy. The Benary's Giant zinnias flopped over but they are still growing. Either way, I loved the results of pinching, lots of beautiful branching stems.