By Snoopdog
shropshire, United Kingdom
since pulling off a flower stalk plus some nice thick ones which were eaten leaving some small ones to grow ,those small ones have grown longer but very thin i have kepy watered and fed some phostrogen plant now 2 years old and after not pulling any last year i am disapointed so what have i done wrong please
On plant
rhubarb
- 19 May, 2015
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I'd also get some well rotted manure on it later in the season rather than feeding with phostrogen...
19 May, 2015
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Your rhubarb is still a young plant, Snoopdog, and this is what they do. The first stems will be good and thick and the following ones less so. Given that the plant is only a couple of years old I would not take any more stems off it this year. As the plant matures you can start taking some of the thinner stems as well, but not all of them; it still needs some leaves to build up its energy for the following year.
19 May, 2015