{"id":632,"date":"2014-10-01T07:26:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T08:22:40","slug":"cheap-garden-pot-mums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/cheap-garden-pot-mums\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Garden Pot Mums"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-631\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purple-pot-mum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-631\" title=\"purple-pot-mum\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purple-pot-mum-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Pot-Mum\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purple-pot-mum-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/purple-pot-mum.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple Pot-Mum with 130+ Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have grown a lot of Chrysanthemums in pots this year. Currently they are showing their true colours in an Autumn blaze of glory.<\/p>\n<h3>Tips for Cheap Chrysanthemums<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I bought a cheap supermarket multi pack early in the year (6 for 99p). I <strong>nipped out the growing heads<\/strong> and in some cases the flowers that were already showing. I potted them up individually in the cold greenhouse, then put them individually in large outdoor pots at the end of June. They were of a variety prone to self branch so I only needed to stop them blooming too early by pinching out odd flowers. They are now 10 times the size the supermarket expected.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Chrysanthemums\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>root well from cuttings<\/strong> and some of my stock were from the pinching out. It is probably better to save the root stock this back-end and take cuttings as they start to grow in early spring.<\/li>\n<li>Pot Mums grown by nurseries for indoor flowering have usually been <strong>treated with chemicals <\/strong>to &#8216;force&#8217;the flowering. I have <strong>found them unsuitable<\/strong> for future propagation as they become very leggy.<\/li>\n<li>I fertilised with a general fertiliser until August when I moved on to Tomato fertiliser to encourage more flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Some darker purple varieties have tended to break stems when I brushed past or the rain was too heavy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ten Pot mum tips <\/strong>and pictures of Orange semi-double Pot mums can be <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/ten-orange-pot-mum-tips\/\">seen here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6244029808\/\" title=\"Pot Mum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6179\/6244029808_7d4b6f7704.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pot Mum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over 2000 years Chrysanthemums have been popular in China. In the west we can now enjoy thousands of varieties including pot grown Chrysanthemums (Pot mums). The chrysanthemum is a hardy or semi-hardy herbaceous perennial which flowers in a wide range of colors. The chemical treatment and cultivation tricks in the growing nurseries often mean the subsequent years of a Pot mums flowering is less uniform. For that reason it may be worth treating indoor Pot mums as annuals.<\/p>\n<p>This semi double flower (above) has one or two outside rows of orange ray flowers and a yellow center or  &#8220;eye&#8221;composed of disk flowers common with composite genera. &#8216;The chrysanthemum is a composite inflorescence with the individual flowers borne on a flat or convex receptacle called a capitulum. The capitulum is surrounded by an involucre of bracts.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6243497967\/\" title=\"Pot Mum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6095\/6243497967_e8c9f691f0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pot Mum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Pot Mum Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pot mums can withstand a bit of benign neglect as long as they are kept watered.<\/li>\n<li>They do not need or even like direct sunlight particularly when in flower.<\/li>\n<li>Only fertilise before the plant starts to flower.<\/li>\n<li>Remove individual flowers when they have finished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6243496429\/\" title=\"Pot Mum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6177\/6243496429_97cba3caca.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pot Mum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Pot Mum Growing Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Pot mums are grown from rooting cuttings<\/li>\n<li>Young Pot mums grow well in high humidity.<\/li>\n<li>Pot chrysanthemums require large quantities of fertilizer when in growth especially nitrogen and potassium. <\/li>\n<li>When liquid fertilization is combined with a slow-release fertilizer the pot mum may excel.<\/li>\n<li>Slow-release fertilizer should be applied to the compost surface compared to mixing with the compost. <\/li>\n<li>Terminal buds of pot mums are pinched out to develop lateral branches and increase the number of flowers on the final plant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag.auburn.edu\/hort\/landscape\/Potmum.htm\">Commercial growing tips<\/a><br \/>\nread more about long lasting <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/chrysanthemums-pot-mums\/\">Pot mums<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have grown a lot of Chrysanthemums in pots this year. Currently they are showing their true colours in an Autumn blaze of glory. Tips for Cheap Chrysanthemums I bought a cheap supermarket multi pack early in the year (6 for 99p). I nipped out the growing heads and in some cases the flowers that were already showing. I potted them up individually in the cold greenhouse, then put them individually in large outdoor pots at the end of June&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/cheap-garden-pot-mums\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}