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No growing tip

Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
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A dozen trailing geranium plugs arrived yesterday. Several of them look to have the growing tips damaged, am I right in thinking they won't recover from that? Or is this some sort of pruning strategy to bush them up?

I have emailed the company concerned, just waiting for their answer. Before I receive a reply I'm looking to know if these are acceptable.


Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    That’s how I’d grow them … I’d  nip the tips out like that to promote lots of sideshoots … they’re just as they should be IMO. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    That's what I needed to hear, thank you @Dovefromabove x

    BTW - pulled off the teabags, a trick learnt from here  :)

    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited May 2023
    "No growing tip"

    Is it just me?  I read "tip" as a small piece of useful advice.  So altogether the heading looked like the antithesis of gardening.

    The nursery is making the plants bushy, whilst also stopping them from getting tangled whilst close together.  Trailing plants are often staked for this reason, and to take up less bench space.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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