{"id":7384,"date":"2016-05-09T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2015-11-18T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:31:27","slug":"deadheading-rhododendron-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/05\/09\/deadheading-rhododendron-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadheading Rhododendron Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Large-flowered rhododendrons (Rhododendron catawbiense<\/i>) benefit from “deadheading”, the practice of removing the old spent flower heads.\u00a0 Deadheading encourages increased branching, which frequently results in more blooms\u00a0the following spring. It also\u00a0cleans up their scruffy appearance. Small-flowered types\u00a0(including \u2018PJM\u2019,\u00a0lepidote rhododendrons, and azaleas) do not benefit from deadheading and are mostly self-cleaning.<\/p>\n

Deadhead your rhododendrons within three weeks after flowering. Vegetative buds have\u00a0yet to emerge. Later, when the new soft vegetative shoots are emerging, they’re easily damaged.\u00a0Deadhead early in the day when plants are fully turgid and not wilted. Deadheaded rhododendrons look better and it directs the plant’s\u00a0energy into growing rather than setting seeds.<\/p>\n

F<\/u>lower stems are very sticky,\u00a0so wear protective hand gloves.\u00a0Gloves in turn also become sticky and results in bud breakage. You can use a sharp scissors or needle-nosed pruners\u00a0to make clean, more precise cuts. Periodically, dip the shears in rubbing alcohol (ethanol) to remove the sticky debris.<\/p>\n

Deadheading is beneficial to rhododendrons, but is not a necessary practice. It can be very time consuming.\u00a0Otherwise, rhododendrons require\u00a0little annual pruning. They\u00a0eventually outgrow their space and\/or crowd out nearby plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Large-flowered rhododendrons (Rhododendron catawbiense) benefit from “deadheading”, the practice of removing the old spent flower heads.\u00a0 Deadheading encourages increased branching, which frequently results in more blooms\u00a0the following spring. It also\u00a0cleans up their scruffy appearance. Small-flowered types\u00a0(including \u2018PJM\u2019,\u00a0lepidote rhododendrons, and azaleas) do not benefit from deadheading and are mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[299,627,601,712,630,705,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}