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What should I do with my cyclamen plant now it has nearly finished flowering ?




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If you have dead headed it you may be surprised by more flowers yet. Is this an indoor or an outdoor one?

27 Nov, 2010

 

If it is a C. persicum (Mainly for indoors in the UK) it should keep blooming through the winter if kept in a cool, bright room. The hardy ones may produce some more leaves in the spring, but probably no more blooms.

28 Nov, 2010

 

But the outdoors ones will flower again and nothing needs to be done to them - ours are buried under snow right C. hederifolium is just about finished flowering whilst C. coum is full of buds. Our trough of C. persicum was outside all summer and is in the front porch now which is being kept heated to around 7˚ and looks more like a greenhouse than a porch at present!

28 Nov, 2010

 

For indoor cyclamen I find that if you dead head they continue to flower for months on end. In the summer, just let them die back and ignore them. Water them in autumn and they can spring back to life.

28 Nov, 2010

 

Exactly Sue - simple really!

28 Nov, 2010

 

Thanks to everyone for the advice, it is an indoor plant but not sure of the name. When I did take a dead flower off all the stem came with it !! And one of them has a small round [ what looks like a seed pod] ball at the end of the stem, think I need house plant lessons,anyway thank you for all replies.

30 Nov, 2010

 

The stem will come off with the flower, if it isn't removed it will rot which isn't a good idea. Yes that little ball is a seedpod but is very unlikely to have any fertile seed in it given that there is nothing around at this time of year to pollinate.

30 Nov, 2010

 

Thanks moon grower for your reply , last year I got a amaryillis plant at christmas which flowered , is it supposed to flower again this year ,the leaves look healthy so im hoping .?

30 Nov, 2010

 

You'd be better asking this as a separate question Miss60 but yes you can get to flower again copy and paste the link below into your web browser good clear info

http://www.amaryllis.com/pac.htm

30 Nov, 2010

How do I say thanks?

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