PROBLEM WITH SWEET PEA SEED PODS
I plant sweet peas every year. I cut flowers regularly as they appear to encourage new flowers and to stop the plant producing seed pods. As the flowers are coming to an end I leave them on plant so I can harvest the seed pods to grow new plants next year. I have done this for several years and had an abundance of seed pods to plant on.
This year I followed the same procedure but the plant only produced two seed pods. Does anybody know why? I thought that every sweet pea flower, if left to die off naturally, produced a seed pod. If this is true I should have dozens of pods not just two?
This year I followed the same procedure but the plant only produced two seed pods. Does anybody know why? I thought that every sweet pea flower, if left to die off naturally, produced a seed pod. If this is true I should have dozens of pods not just two?
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We've got loads of sweet pea seeds so I doubt it was the hot weather ... it was very hot here. Did you water them?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They may simply have run out of energy altogether, Billy, especially if you had the extreme temps and they were dehydrated. You really can't give them too much water.
I never save seeds though - I always buy fresh seed from good suppliers.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...