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?
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.