Pinch back the growth to promote a bushy appearance. As fall arrives allow the growth to develop.
Pinch back plants for bushier growth. Remove dead flowers to promote more blooms and to maintain an attractive appearance.
Calendula is hardier than most annuals. It will continue to grow until a heavy frosts or freeze arrives.
Pinch back any annuals, Fuchsias, Geraniums, Cosmos or any other plants that might be getting a little leggy.
Pinch your Chrysanthemum's to encourage them to be bushier and have more blossoms. Pinch them again, every 6 inches or so, as they grow.
Pinch back the tips of seedlings to encourage thicker growth and more flower production. Water seedlings regularly, and feed once a month with a good quality fertilizer designed for annuals.
Pinch back your herbs a quarter of the way back to promote bushiness and fresh growth. Deadhead dying flowers to keep them producing blossoms throughout June. Remove the dead leaves from spring blooming bulbs.
Pinch back long or tall shoots on any plants, such as busy lizzies and ivies, that have become straggly because of poor light levels in winter.
Marvelous Mums. Pinch back mums to promote full, bushy plants and provide more blooms later in the fall.
* Pinch back your mums or other fall blooming perennials to make them nice and compact. Traditionally, you can pinch mums back until July 4th. I root the pieces I pinch off to make more mums and asters.
For a bushier plant, pinch back the outermost leaves. You can use these cuttings to start new plants.
To propagate new plants from cuttings, place a 2- to 3-inch leaf cutting with a few leaf buds in vermiculite, perlite or a glass of water.
Most of us also neglect to pinch back certain plants like phlox, chrysanthemum, zinnia or snapdragon, a practice that induces them to branch out and create more flowers.
Thin your weeds and pinch back the annuals so your weeds become lushly leafy. Use weeds as rotation crops; they bring up subsoil minerals and protect against many insects.
Also, be prepared to pinch back some of your plant's growth early in the season to encourage it to branch rather than just grow in length.
You can pinch back with scissors or your fingers on the green part of the stalk, removing stem tips above a leaf. Be sure, however, to leave several leaves on the stalk because that's where the plant will branch out.
July: In early July, pinch back each stem by about one inch. This is to encourage a stout, well branched plant. If left unpinched, the poinsettia will grow tall and spindly.
Maintenance: Each week during the growing season, remove spent flowers and pinch back leggy stems. When necessary, replace tired plants with some fresh annuals, especially late-season favorites, such as ornamental kale and mums.
After plants are established, pinch back halfway for compact growth. For optimum growth, feed monthly with complete liquid fertilizer. If you live in long-season zones 7 or 8, cut back plants halfway in August to force new growth.
To encourage more blooms, pinch back impatiens. Shade gardens need lots of organic matter and peat moss in the soil to help retain moisture.
If diseases are a problem, thin to 3 to 5 stems per plant when plants are about 6 inches tall. Do not pinch back later or plants may not flower, but you can remove lateral flower spikes to encourage larger main flower spike.
As difficult as this may sound, remove the flowers at planting time, so the plants can focus their energy on more leaf and root production. Also, pinch back any spindly growth to produce bushier plants (except for asters, arctotis and gazania).
Pinch back the plants several times before midsummer to encourage bushier growth and more flowers. Stonecrops need to be
divided only when the centers of aging clumps begin to grow and flower less vigorously.
Spring, after growth begins, is an acceptable time to cut out damaged or dead wood; to remove small shoots heading in the wrong direction; to pinch back new growth; and to shear conifer hedges.
Cultivation requirements: does best in full sun (will tolerate slight shade); well-drained soil; no fertiliser; water soil sparingly but do not let dry out; pinch back the tips or harvest sprigs to use in cooking to keep it bushy and productive.
Known as the Chelsea chop, it is carried out in late May, soon after the famous flower show has finished.
To do this, cut or pinch back plants by half. Sedum, rudbeckia, echinacea, helenium and golden rod will all respond well to this technique.
The shrimp plant prefers indirect light and some airflow. One way to cut down on direct light is to put a very thin curtain over a south-facing window. Because the shrimp plant has a tendency to get leggy, pinch back the growth to encourage fullness.
In fact, it may be helpful to place them in a plastic bag (with small air holes to release excess moisture). Once roots develop within a month or two, you can pinch back new growth to promote bushier growth if desired.
Throughout the growing season, cut back shoots of maples 1 zelkovas2 and other broad-leaves to the first or second pair of leaves. Pinch out the tips of juniper shoots 3. With pines, 4 remove the center "candles" and pinch back the ...
Pinch back the stems if they get too lanky to keep the plants bushier and encourage them to keep blooming.
New Guinea impatiens are a related plant with darker leaves and more compact plant making them great for containers.
Fertilize occasionally with a balanced fertilizer. They require little care once established, and will bloom continuously until killed by frost in the fall or winter. Pinch back the plants for bushier growth and more flowers.
Pinch back to maintain shape or grow in enclosed area or containers. Can be evasive. Water sparingly. Mints
Hardiness: zone 5
Soil pH 6.5
Rich, moist, well-drained soil
Full sun to partial shade
Cultivation: Definitely a container species.
 See also: Pinch, Plant, Soil, Flower, Fertilize
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