Why You Should Pinch Back Your Cut Flowers

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Did you know that there’s a simple garden technique that can create fuller, bushier plants, more blooms, and longer cut flower stems? It's called "pinching".

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To “pinch flowers” is the act of removing or cutting off the central stem of the plant, encouraging the plant to produce new side branches from the side nodes.

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Why Should You Pinch Back Cut Flowers?

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– Stimulates new growth – Encourages the production of more sets of leaves and true leaves – Results in the plant’s bushier growth and more energy to produce flowers – Longer stems and more beautiful blooms

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When you snip the young plant’s center tip of new stems, it triggers the plant to produce new branches from the leaf nodes below the pinch point. .

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This new growth will result in a bushier plant with more sets of leaves and more sets of true leaves.

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As a result, the plant will have more energy to produce flowers, resulting in longer stems and more beautiful blooms.

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If you don’t pinch back your young flowering plants, your plants could grow only one central flower stem, produce shorter stems overall, and even become a sad spindly plant.

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To learn more about how and when to pinch your flowers back, visit the blog where I'll explain everything you need to know.

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