When a plant produces flowers
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What conditions are necessary to make a potted aloe vera bloom?
I have a potted aloe vera that I keep indoors during the winter and outside the rest of the year. It has leaves one foot long and two inches wide at the base. I fertilize it with tea from my ...
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Can you identify this small, formerly flowering houseplant?
I received this plant as a gift. It had flowers, but they have long since vanished. The plant seems to be doing fine- it's been putting out new leaves, and it's been six months. I recently moved it ...
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None of my fruit/nut trees are flowering
I live in zone 8/9 in northern FL and I have the following fruit/nut trees:
2 Pecans
2 Meyor Lemons
2 Peach trees (uncertain of variety)
1 Black Mission fig
Most of the trees have been planted for ...
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How do I encourage morning glories to bloom?
I know that many of you will find this unbelievable -- but my morning glories did not bloom this year.
For those of you that live where morning glories are a perenial that borders on "weed" this ...
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My lettuce is flowering - does that mean it has bolted?
I planted a batch of "zesty blend" lettuce seeds. They seem to be doing fine, but suddenly they started flowering:
Have they bolted? They look healthy otherwise. Still edible?
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What steps can I use to encourage pollination?
I have some plants that have many flowers but not very many vegetables being produced; sometimes it seems as if I'm growing the plants for the pretty flowers and not for the vegetables that may ...
