How to Pinch Back Flowers
Pinch back annual flowers, vegetables, herbs and late-blooming perennials, such as chrysanthemums and asters, and you'll help plants produce more flowers - and make them fuller and denser. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Begin pinching transplants when you set them into the garden. For plants already in place, start when they're 2 to 4 inches tall and have several sets of leaves.
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Pinch off the tip of the central shoot. New side branches will quickly develop.
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Pinch off the growing tip of each new branch when it's about 6 inches long.
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Continue until you're pleased with the form of annual flowers, vegetables and herbs. Stop pinching perennials by mid-July to allow the plants to produce buds.
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