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we have a geranium plant that probably needed to be deadheaded a WHILE ago.. however I didn't know about this until I came to this forum.. I also thought deadheading them anytime was fine.. however I found out you need to do this before they make the seeds.. The blooms on the geraniums were very dried out.. but some WEREN't making seeds yet. however it has been about 2-3 weeks and I do not see ANY blooms at ALL.
I usually take off the stalk that the bloom is on, just for a tidier look on these plants. It breaks off cleanly at the stem of the plant. Deadheading is done to prevent the sseds from forming. When the seeds form, hormones are released to signal the plant to stop blooming and ripen the seed. So, if you take of the flowers before that hormone is released, the plant flowers again. It's OK if you didn't get the plant dead-headed at the 'proper' time.