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Hardiness Zone: 6a
By sharcady from Indianapolis, IN
By
05/29/2009
I was told from a local nursery that on your petunias you cut them back 1/3 when you plant them and then again in July. It takes them a little time to grow back out but they get so thick and bushy, their beautiful. Pattysue
By
05/25/2009
What I always do is just remove the blooms when they start to shrivel up. This is what I have always been told to do. Otherwise the petunias quit blooming.
By
05/25/2009
I live in California and I just whack my petunias way back with my pruning shears to about 2 inches. I do it several times a year They come back great.
By
05/24/2009
Pinch off the flower just below the blossom but if the stems are dried out cut them back to where the dry area ends.
How do you pinch back petunias to keep them from being so "leggy"?
By Sue
By gardendreamer
06/17/2011
As a flower dies, pinch that stem back to just above a leaf. If it is already leggy, just pinch back just above a leaf wherever and it should branch out and keep flowering.
I have beautiful hanging baskets of (mainly) petunias on my northeast facing porch. They are beginning to look rather ragged now (almost mid July).
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