Loz,
You probably have some type of too much nitrogen in the soil??? Not sure what?
Probably the Miracle Grow, that's usually a high first number???????????
Which makes beautiful green lush growth!!!

Find some kind of fertilizer *Mine is Shultz Plus 10~60~10* and the fert should have some sort of high MIDDLE NUMBER, that'll give the plants some good stuff for blooms..........

I might have said, earlier in the season an organic fertilizer like Alfafa Meal, Bone Meal, Kelp, etc, for slower but good blooms stuff...

And do foliar feeds with the fert. too, that way, it'll get a direct feed to the leaves with the short season coming ahead...

Weezie

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Weezie

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Shamarian......ah, I'm not the only one out there then....whew, I don't feel bad....my poor mom keeps asking me when they are going to bloom....and you know, come to think of it...hers weren't fertilized with anything at all and they haven't budded or anything......so it musn't be from using my miracle grow since I never used it on hers.....Hey, the foliage sure looks nice huh?LOL I have about 6 of these big monstrosities in my yard, and they are huge and take up a ton of room.....I haven't even staked them at all the stalk coming out of the ground is so big and strong......Maybe I'll email burpee too at the end of summer if nothing happens, I wonder how many people out there bought burpee cosmos seeds and have huge monstrous looking plants right now without flowers.....

Weezie---I'm mad, I really thought I was on the right track with the fertilizer thing, but since I didn't do moms with it, and I know she didn't then it must be the seeds.....they are in full sun like they should be.....and I love cosmos so much, I'm mad that these haven't bloomed....I like to take cut flowers from them, last year I only had one spectacular cosmos.....this year with so many planted I thought I'd be cutting flowers all summer.....lol Just my luck!

It may have to do with the kind of cosmos, too. I planted two different types in my yard. One type started blooming a month ago at about three feet tall. The others, from a different company, are over six feet tall and just making buds now. I did not use Miracle Gro on either kind, but I did mix peat humus into the soil last spring.

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loz. My cosmos have been in bloom for at least 6weeks now, trouble is they are about half as tall as last year, they are only about 18ins tall. any suggestions?

Doreen

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I knew if I searched hard enough I would find this thread. Today, on the last weekend of September, my giant cosmos plants that I planted in early May have finally bloomed! I don't know why it took them so long, but better late than never!

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Tony from Massachusetts

Cosmos are rampant in our area - everywhere you look they're waving in the breeze. Some are dying off and you can dead head 'em.

Guess you got a lot of rain this summer?

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Hi as I have already mentioned I am new at gardening, however I did hear on the radio that
there are two components to growing flowering
plants; one is fertilizer for the roots -nitrogen?. the second is fetizlizer? for the foliage and flowers. It seems that many people are fertilizing in a way that the roots are getting too much and therefore all the energy is going into growing roots and little to none going into setting buds.
I hope this helps.
Up here in Ontario, we can also buy 30Litre bags
of 'organic' top soil; perhaps this is the kind you could look for. We also have triple mix which is really good.
IN LOVE AND LIGHT

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pinky