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Florence SD

I had my first female bloom at ten feet out, but my male flowers just stay small and dont bloom. a few secondarys seem stunted as well. would a bloom booseter fertilizer help this? we have had some heavy rains and the flowers and seconds got dirty .does that stunt their growth at all?

6/22/2012 9:44:29 PM

43.841677 , -79.086692

I have had this happen. In my case it was too much nitrogen. Do the female petals look twisted?

6/23/2012 12:24:31 AM

Picton,ON ([email protected])

Try some foliar phosphorous. A product like TKO should help

6/23/2012 3:19:13 PM

East Jordan, MI

Plant stress, Too much nitrogen, or not enough Phosphorus, boron, zinc or ?????

Did you do a soil test? Without that you are just guessing and adding things could make it worse.

TKO is a PHOSPHITE not a Phosphorus, so they work differently, I'm not sure it would aid in flower production at all, but I could be wrong.

6/24/2012 8:26:55 AM

Littlerock, WA

There is the possiblity that the plant is sterile. I have a plant that I'm monitoring that is acting the same way and I have my suspicions that it may be sterile. None of the tiny males develop. There is a female that'll open in about a week, so we'll see if it takes or aborts. What seed are you growing?

6/24/2012 11:48:57 AM

Denver, CO

<----- In the exact same boat. Added some bloom buster a couple days ago, no effect yet. Geeze I hope it's not sterile!

6/24/2012 1:07:29 PM

Florence SD

im starting to get a few males here and there . but still not as many as I should have. I did not do a soil test this year b/c the last two years have been the same moderate/high in p and k and add a little n. i also see my zuccini have the same issue

6/25/2012 10:20:07 PM