Does deadheading pansies increase blooming?

No, with pansies, the number of flowers you get depends on the size of the plant. The size of the plant depends primarily on sunlight, amount of available moisture, nutrients (fertilizer), and soil quality. If you deadhead a pansy, a new flower will take it's place, but it's a 1 for 1 trade off. You don't need to deadhead a pansy to keep it blooming all season. It's an annual. It will do that anyway assuming conditions are good for the plant's growth.



The people who are telling you that deadheading will produce a new flower are technically correct, but your question is "will it INCREASE blooming". To that, the answer is "no". It will not increase blooming, it will only maintain blooming. It may speed up production of the replacement flower, but it will not result in multiple new flowers.

Does deadheading pansies increase blooming?
Deadheading ANY flower will increase blooming. The plant is trying to produce seed to increase it's numbers. For which it needs a flower, because seeds are produced when a flower is pollinated. Taking that flower away, before the seed pod matures under it encourages another flower to grow in it's place.



It should be noted that if you are going to be doing this through the year, you should also feed the root system periodically with fertilizer to keep up the plant's strength. There are only so much minerals and other food products surrounding it in the soil.
Reply:i agree with the ones above. been gardening myself for 10+ years.
Reply:This is really only something that is good for perennials because they bloom less and are on their own specific schedule. You can do it on pansies to creat a better looking plant, but it wont increase blooming. Pansies if grown right should bloom plenty on their own. Just make sure you give them the TLC that they need. Good luck with your garden and enjoy!
Reply:Yes it dsoes, but pansies will not bloom all summer, they like it cool.
Reply:Yes!! A plant produces flowers in order to make seeds and procreate. If you interrupt the cycle before the seeds are mature, the plant will make more flowers b/c the previous ones have been lost. You can keep you pansies flowering for the whole summer if you dead-head every day or every second day. If all the flowers go to seed and the seeds mature, you will not get any more flowers. If the flower produces lots of seed, you can be pretty much guaranteed that if you dead-head them, it will encourage more flower production (petunias, snap-dragons, sweet-peas, violas, bachelor buttons, cosmos...) *Don't forget to fertilize too. If the soil is depleted, the plant won't have the nutrients needed to produce more flowers.
Reply:Yes. Deadheading annuals does increase blooming because once a flower blooms, it begins to set seed. I don't deadhead mine and it doesn't hurt them one bit but if you want more blooms, it's a good idea.



Here is a good link -- Gardening by HGTV -

Deadhead Free http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_plants_other...



This article discusses plants that do not require deadheading but it offers tips on deadheading for plants that "can use a pinch."