Love mums! I always buy them potted for my porch and have been added them to the same flower bed at the end of the fall for a few years now. They've come back really well for me! I appreciate the bright pop of color in the garden, especially when other things are starting to look tired. Would love to try propagating them, thanks for the helpful video!
Good information. You are correct. They come back each year for me in zone7. I just cut them back and cover the soil with shredded paper in winter. Spring, I repot them and they spread around the pot. I had 1 for 3 years now.
If you can stand to see the mess (and don't have an HOA breathing down your neck) leaving the stems over winter and cutting back in the spring provides homes for bugs that feed the birds and pollinate and such 😁
Where did you get your original stock for the big cut variety types? I only ever see the button or daisy type ones in pots. You can’t root a cutting from a cut flower bouquet from the grocery store, can you?
I don't know about where you live but I know lots of places have chrysanthemum groups that have a spring sale. I keep forgetting until it's too late, but this year I've marked it in my calendar to look up when the show is early next spring 🤣
Thanks for sharing! I'm curious- have you ever grown a Crossandra plant? It's new to me, I only came across it this weekend, but I don't see many English-speaking videos here on youtube on the Crossandras.
This is awesome ! 🌸🌺 I am looking for huge ( I think it is chinese, 5 inches big blossom give and take ) chrysanthemums blooms. I don't think box stores sells them. I have to Google specialty nursery. If anyone knows the botanical name that would be awesome or who sells it.
So for the size blooms you show at the beginning of the video (the big yellow one at the bottom of the first arrangement and the two bronze above it and the big pink one toward the top) did you pinch a lot of others off to get that size? Thank you for the referral to king mums, exactly what I was looking for, do they ever run any specials like free shipping that you have seen? Also, their website says things like “disbud to first crown,” or “grow as sprays.” Next year, will you make a video about what all this means and show how to do it. Maybe even show the results of really good care to get perfect blooms compared to just letting one do it’s own thing. Your videos are great and make everything clear and easy to understand!
@@daniellebradley2728 growing as spray is about allowing a cluster of smaller blooms, the first part might be referring to only keeping the very top bud, the British are very serious about their mums I've seen some videos from British folks who grow for competition where they only keep the very top bud, and they stake, and shelter from the wind and rain, and all kinds of things to get blooms that are just about perfect
We had snow here in southern NH Oct 30th... my mums are all brown 🙁 For landscape, I grow Belgian hardy mums. The typical hardy mum is not perennial here. Has to be Belgian. The ones you are planting, are they 'florist' mums?
I've got a question for all that have Mums that DO come back and flower every year - Are these plants in a place that gets complete darkness during the time of flowering? (Or probably even preflowering times?) Here's why I ask: Waaaay back in my early days of gardening, I worked in a grocery store floral department. At that time I was told by those "in the know" that the only way to get mums to flower was to have them in complete darkness for a certain number of hours per 24 hour period. Of coarse now, I cannot remember the exact # of hours that was!! But I think it was somewhere between 8-10 hours. The point being that if you had a street light shining down on them during the night, that this messed up their signals, and they refused to flower. By the same token, even if the mums had a porch light which wasn't such a strong amount of light shining on it, they STILL wouldn't flower. I'm quite sure that in nature, this long period of complete darkness is their signal that the seasons have changed, so time to get those flowers out there! Those are prolly the Fall blooming mums. But as far as the "complete darkness" thing, I still don't have the answer! I must admit, I've never done the experiment! In this day and age of dark skies disappearing, I may never find out on my own... Anybody have any thoughts?
Love mums! I always buy them potted for my porch and have been added them to the same flower bed at the end of the fall for a few years now. They've come back really well for me! I appreciate the bright pop of color in the garden, especially when other things are starting to look tired. Would love to try propagating them, thanks for the helpful video!
Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
Good information. You are correct. They come back each year for me in zone7. I just cut them back and cover the soil with shredded paper in winter. Spring, I repot them and they spread around the pot. I had 1 for 3 years now.
If you can stand to see the mess (and don't have an HOA breathing down your neck) leaving the stems over winter and cutting back in the spring provides homes for bugs that feed the birds and pollinate and such 😁
Thanks for this video! Lots of great info for this chrysanthemum newbie!
I learned exactly what I needed to know. Thank you!
loved this video❤
Great information! Thank you for sharing this!
Very helpful
Where did you get your original stock for the big cut variety types? I only ever see the button or daisy type ones in pots. You can’t root a cutting from a cut flower bouquet from the grocery store, can you?
I'm not sure that you can root cut flowers, but it might be worth trying. Kings mums has a beautiful selection of large flowered chrysanthemums. 🌱🌱🌱
I don't know about where you live but I know lots of places have chrysanthemum groups that have a spring sale. I keep forgetting until it's too late, but this year I've marked it in my calendar to look up when the show is early next spring 🤣
Why are you leaving the dead woody stems in some of the transplanting?
Does that dead wood help the propagation?
I'm planting the stool into bottles to help speed growth for cuttings in spring. I assume that dead stalk can be removed, I just never do. 🌱🌱🌱
I'm in zone 7b-8 and ours have been perennials for years
Where did you buy those chrysanthemums seedling from?
Still good vid 3 months later! 👍
Thanks for sharing! I'm curious- have you ever grown a Crossandra plant? It's new to me, I only came across it this weekend, but I don't see many English-speaking videos here on youtube on the Crossandras.
I've never tried crossandra. I'll have to look into it. 🌱🌱🌱
That is so helpful. I have never bought chrysanthemums because I could never get them to come back😃
Thanks for watching! 🌱🌱🌱
Try planting Belgian mums.
@@dc0145a thanks🤩
Where did you buy those cut chrysanthemum , I would love to buy some thanks
The mums came from King's Mums. Thanks for watching!
This is awesome ! 🌸🌺
I am looking for huge ( I think it is chinese, 5 inches big blossom give and take ) chrysanthemums blooms. I don't think box stores sells them. I have to Google specialty nursery. If anyone knows the botanical name that would be awesome or who sells it.
Kings mums has a great selection. Though to get large flowers, they will need careful disbudding during the season. Good luck! 🌱🌱🌱
@@TONYAwiththeflowers Thanks you the Best ! 🌸🌺🌹
So for the size blooms you show at the beginning of the video (the big yellow one at the bottom of the first arrangement and the two bronze above it and the big pink one toward the top) did you pinch a lot of others off to get that size?
Thank you for the referral to king mums, exactly what I was looking for, do they ever run any specials like free shipping that you have seen? Also, their website says things like “disbud to first crown,” or “grow as sprays.” Next year, will you make a video about what all this means and show how to do it. Maybe even show the results of really good care to get perfect blooms compared to just letting one do it’s own thing. Your videos are great and make everything clear and easy to understand!
@@daniellebradley2728 growing as spray is about allowing a cluster of smaller blooms, the first part might be referring to only keeping the very top bud, the British are very serious about their mums I've seen some videos from British folks who grow for competition where they only keep the very top bud, and they stake, and shelter from the wind and rain, and all kinds of things to get blooms that are just about perfect
We had snow here in southern NH Oct 30th... my mums are all brown 🙁 For landscape, I grow Belgian hardy mums. The typical hardy mum is not perennial here. Has to be Belgian. The ones you are planting, are they 'florist' mums?
I think florist mums are the ones that aren't hardy and have to be grown further south or in a hot house.
I've got a question for all that have Mums that DO come back and flower every year -
Are these plants in a place that gets complete darkness during the time of flowering?
(Or probably even preflowering times?)
Here's why I ask:
Waaaay back in my early days of gardening, I worked in a grocery store floral department. At that time I was told by those "in the know" that the only way to get mums to flower was to have them in complete darkness for a certain number of hours per 24 hour period. Of coarse now, I cannot remember the exact # of hours that was!! But I think it was somewhere between 8-10 hours.
The point being that if you had a street light shining down on them during the night, that this messed up their signals, and they refused to flower. By the same token, even if the mums had a porch light which wasn't such a strong amount of light shining on it, they STILL wouldn't flower.
I'm quite sure that in nature, this long period of complete darkness is their signal that the seasons have changed, so time to get those flowers out there! Those are prolly the Fall blooming mums.
But as far as the "complete darkness" thing, I still don't have the answer! I must admit, I've never done the experiment!
In this day and age of dark skies disappearing, I may never find out on my own...
Anybody have any thoughts?
I have street lights and bright security lights on all night and mine bloomed. I have heard that about poinsettias though.
Yes chrysanthemums and poinsettias are phototropic .. they need a certain amout of uninterrupted darkness to bloom.
Yes, mums need a certain night length to begin flowering. This is how large operations trick them into blooming year around. 🌱🌱🌱
Thanks everybody!
I knew I could count on y'all for the good info! ♡