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Sweet pea bloom
30waj58
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Despite getting an early start, good compost, regular water, feeding etc , I cannot seem to get more than 3 blooms on my sweet pea stems. Any advice
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How early.?
I sowed in February, and so far I've had three stems.
Its not exactly been good weather here.
I'm just getting my first buds forming, very wet weather here though
It will also depend on the variety.
This year I've grown 'hi-scent' and 'elegant ladies' - both very strongly scented and just 3 flowers on each stem. These are heirloom type sweet p's.
Modern varieties can have 7 flowers per stem.
What variety do you have?
Billericay - Essex
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I sowed in Feb this time. I know that my favourite Cupani is a heritage variety and not ver floriferous but I happily trade that for scent and colour. Others I have this year are sugar almond and alan titchmarsh
I have been picking for a couple of weeks following all the advice I received on this Forum. I think everything has been put back a couple of weeks due to the poor Spring we had - at least our flowers should last longer into the summer/autumn.