This all adds grist to my conspiracy theory. There is a thread about tomatoes where everybody that planted a certain type of tomato got the same wrong ones!
Now everybody is having non flowering cosmos (you're not the only two). Somewhere there is a wee man with some big bags of seed putting it into wee packets and selling it on toallthe suppliers at exorbitant profits! HA!
I too have some grown from seed that haven't flowered.....yet. They are very strong looking plants but others from the same sowing are flowering well. The flowering ones don't look quite so luxuriant but are perfectly good plants. They are from a 2015 packet.
I've got a few plants that was attacked by snails but grew anyway,but now have grown taller and bushier than the others but no flowers yet but the buds are there.
I'm another one with big green cosmos. One of mine has only just started to bloom, today it has the grand total of 2 flowers. Others have buds yet to open and some have nothing but foliage.
All grown from seed, started off in early April. "Sensation mix" I think?
In my personal opinion 2016 has been a funny year for lots of things I've grown. I really feel sympathy for new and first time gardeners who have been starting out this year. It can be so disheartening when all that effort gives little reward.
I've got cosmos flowers (rubenza, antiquity, purity and sweet sixteen - so not the sensation mix) ....but like MU my sweetpeas are a bit of a disaster this year. Will dig more compost into their patch for next year.
Just looked in my seed box. Mine are sensation mixed too. They're from Johnson's. One has started flowering reasonably well but most have no sign of buds at all.
Shorter cosmos bought from GC and lidls as plants are doing well.
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I've got one flower just to show me what they would've been like
The non- flowering ones are the tall ones and have been planted in various locations and quality of soil. I wonder if it was the seeds.
This all adds grist to my conspiracy theory. There is a thread about tomatoes where everybody that planted a certain type of tomato got the same wrong ones!
Now everybody is having non flowering cosmos (you're not the only two). Somewhere there is a wee man with some big bags of seed putting it into wee packets and selling it on to all the suppliers at exorbitant profits! HA!
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I too have some grown from seed that haven't flowered.....yet. They are very strong looking plants but others from the same sowing are flowering well. The flowering ones don't look quite so luxuriant but are perfectly good plants. They are from a 2015 packet.
If the seeds grew then their age isn't the problem - I've got some cosmos flowering now which came from a packet which said Sow by 2005.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've got a few plants that was attacked by snails but grew anyway,but now have grown taller and bushier than the others but no flowers yet but the buds are there.
I'm another one with big green cosmos. One of mine has only just started to bloom, today it has the grand total of 2 flowers. Others have buds yet to open and some have nothing but foliage.
All grown from seed, started off in early April. "Sensation mix" I think?
In my personal opinion 2016 has been a funny year for lots of things I've grown. I really feel sympathy for new and first time gardeners who have been starting out this year. It can be so disheartening when all that effort gives little reward.
I've got flowers. My seed came from the forum seed swap
Can't remember who sent me those
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've got cosmos flowers (rubenza, antiquity, purity and sweet sixteen - so not the sensation mix) ....but like MU my sweetpeas are a bit of a disaster this year. Will dig more compost into their patch for next year.
Just looked in my seed box. Mine are sensation mixed too. They're from Johnson's. One has started flowering reasonably well but most have no sign of buds at all.
Shorter cosmos bought from GC and lidls as plants are doing well.