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2007 Plant List
Annual Flower Research at Bluegrass Lane - 2007
Petunia Madness Red Improved

Source: Ball Horticultural Company

Comments:

June 15: lanky stems, old flowers detract, lanky; July 1: too bright, full, very bright, many flowers; July 15: beginning to look lanky, dead flowers = ugly; Aug 1: botrytis, faded blooms, lanky, hideous; Aug 15: cut back; Sept 1: large blooms, small plants, maybe virus, didn't come back well after hard prune.


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