Cosmos help!

[Fushia123]

I’ve grown these compost from seed. They are now in the garden and are robust and healthy. However there is not a bud to be seen! Have they come up blind? What have I done and how can I remedy this?

Mine have been mostly straggly and underwhelming. Except for the Xanthos pale yellow which bushed out nicely and produced loads of blooms.

Mine were very late to flower this year but at the moment I’ve got loads of cosmos flowers. I’m sure they’re not meant to peak in October/November- it seems really odd. A lot of my poppies are re-blooming now as well.

That’s interesting.
there’s some very nice pale yellow cosmos in a garden in our village. Maybe this cultivar is bred in Britain or a similar latitude such as the Netherlands.

Xanthos is pale yellow and has been my most successful this year. About to conk out, but just about still going

Mine are now covered in buds.

I find that the deep pink ones flower later and the paler/white ones are smaller and flower earlier. I always plant a variety.

Mine have been the other way round, the deep pink/purple ones have been out for a couple of months at least and the whites only started flowering this week.

That illustrates the quirky nature of plants!😂 I expect it depends on where you are in the country, soil etc.

They are in different places (the pink ones full sun, the white ones partial shade). I do notice at the allotments some people get flowering Cosmos far sooner than others even though they are similar light levels presumably similar soil although some will feed more than others, plant out at different times etc.