Secrets to Growing Huge Hanging Flower Baskets full of Petunias or any other Plants
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Growing huge hanging flower baskets of petunias is so easy if you follow these simple steps. The secrets to big beautiful hanging flower baskets are to 1.) pack the plants in tightly 2.) fertilize well 3.) water frequently through the summer. That's it! Planting hanging baskets and growing them on is a lot of fun but I see people struggle with hanging baskets and I think the biggest problem is under-watering. When these petunias get large, they require a constant supply of moisture and even 1 day of drying out can wilt the leaves. Follow these steps and you'll be successful!
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I've been following this Petunia series since the beginning, it got me inspired. I've been taking cuttings all spring and keep planting in my outside garden once they out grow a 3 inch pot. It's crazy how easy it is. I found a stem that a rabbit broke off and decided to stick it in the dirt nearby just to let mother nature handle it, now it's just as big as the plant it came from. Keep the videos coming Mike!
That is awesome! I'll keep em coming as long as you keep coming back!
That is a gorgeous red petunia, Mike! I usually go for lavender or purple, but that is a beautiful red. Thanks for sharing your info on growing huge baskets! I used to use the water from our Koi pond to water my plants and they were always so beautiful! Since I accidentally killed my husband's huge Koi, I will try your method til I replace the Koi. Maybe I will like your method better! 😉
Because of you I learned how to propagate my petunias and I now have plants that are bigger than the mother plant. I am now working on getting the petunias we have at our church propagated to add more into our church garden. I wish there was a way I could post a picture on here to show you what we’ve done :-) Thank you so much! I love watching your videos!
Thanks, Autie! You can post pictures on our Facebook group. There is a link in the description of the video.
I actually saw some seed pods on my red petunias last summer so I collected them. I have them growing now and they are about an inch tall. ❤ I am so excited for free petunia’s!! Wish me luck! I got dozens!
Good luck!!!
I must say it again, i like the way you organized the videos, showing us the result. Thank you for 'walking an extra mile'!
You're welcome, Xuejun Li, I love taking the time and making great videos for you!
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Beautiful! My Daughter & Son-in-Law just moved into a lovely home. 🏡 I gave them 2 petunia hanging baskets for their front porch. I noticed that the plants are pretty but leggy & devoid of fullness. So I found several TH-cam videos, including yours, on how to fill the plants out, which I shared with them. Hopefully they allow me to help since I enjoy caring for flowers & can do so while they set up the interior of the home. Thank you.
Great! You can definitely do this and reinvigorate their baskets, Stephanie!
Mike, I love that 'knock your socks off' vibrant red color, or as we like to call it here in Nebraska, Husker Red! Petunias are fun and easy to propagate. Watching you, reminded me how much I used to enjoy making free plants, and you've reignited my passion for propagating plants! Thanks for making these videos and for your contagious enthusiasm! ~Margie
You're welcome, Margie! I love spreading the contagion.
Awesome! Will definitely check out your info on cuttings. Thanks for showing us the stunning results!
You bet!
Your videos are great info. For us plant lovers!
I love that you show the beginning and the results
Glad you enjoy it, Stella. That's my claim to fame! Many other videos with the same layout.
Nicely done! Thank you for sharing your horticulture passion.
Thanks for watching, Margaret!
Yes sir.... free plants... there is nothing like the enjoyment of ....plants.. good job
You got that right!
I love your tutorial on how to make this beautiful petunia basket.
Thanks, sure did turn out beautiful!
Absolute perfection!! Thank you for showing the end result 😍👌
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Great videos. I've been having a great time work propagating my petunias. Thanks for all your work and sharing of your knowledge.
I love making these videos for you, Nora! Have fun with your petunias.
Mike you are the bomb! You really know how to get us excited about growing things. Now I want to create a basket like that. 🌱🌷💐🌻🌸
Thanks so much, Chandra! I love this stuff and I love getting you excited about it too!
Thank you so much for this video, it was the most informative one I've seen.
Glad it was helpful!
Fantastic video, lovely red flowers, perfect to decorate our pouch at our farm house !
I love it, Good job, Mike !😁😁👋👋🌺🌺
I love your passion for plants and flowers Miike! Great videos!
Thanks, Paul!
Beautiful.. Thanks for all the effort in showing the results!
My pleasure 😊, Valeria! Thanks for watching!
Hello Mike,I am so glad I discovered your videos.....lots of learning.Very inspiring.thanks.Oh love the hanging basket.
So glad you enjoy them, Josephine!
I luv these hanging baskets of flowering plants
Me too!
Thanks for sharing your tips for growing petunias.
You've got it!
Absolutely beautiful!! I have a new project to do over the winter time now. Thank you and love love love your videos.
Thanks, Koni, have fun!
Awesome I am going to try propagate this year 😊
Have fun!
Amazing video! So satisfying to see their growing process :)
Awesome! That's exactly the reaction I'm looking for. I love making these time lapse videos that show everything from start to finish. Thanks for watching!
wow, fantastic. I've just known that flowers can be kept during winter for the next summer. It's kinder cool. Thank you
Ce frumoase sunt petuniile!👍
Oh my gosh, so glad your video came up on my feed! Love how you took time to show every step of the process. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️. I had not one iota about doing any of these things! At the risk of sounding like an idiot~~I was clueless!! 😟😟. Now I’m all excited cuz I happen to have a basket of deep purple petunias!! Had no idea they needed watered so much either. Gosh, I’m gonna relish the idea of doing this to mine. New subbie, punched for future videos and gonna check out your other videos as well. ❤️💯❤️💯. After that, I’m gonna check out your wife’s channel. Happy flowering to you and thank you sooooo very much.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and like the channel! Thanks for the sub and I hope you enjoy my wife's channel just as much. Have fun in the garden!
i gotta fix my garden too...thanks for inspiring me how to do it.
Go for it!
I have never heard of taking cuttings. I would have no space to overwinter them, anyway. I'm in zone 5 and have had every hanging basket and planter of petunias re-seed from the previous years petunias. I get so many starts I give them to friends and buy more pots and hangers so I don't waste any. I've now started planting them in flowerbeds and have a whole new crop this summer. They've been blooming for weeks!
Awesome! Sounds like you're having fun, Rhonda.
Beautiful .....🌷
I've been propagating petunias straight into soil. I have 2 handing baskets made of only clippings. One just has pink and white, the other must at least have 8-9 different colors. Could not believe how well all of those colors go together.
Lol, with petunias, all colors go together.
I love petunias and I’m going to take clipping to grow my own fir next year at the end of summer. Thank you fir all your videos. Be safe ❤️🌺
Have fun with it, Lindy!
Beautiful result. Watching it was fun.
Glad you enjoyed it! I love how these red petunias turned out.
So beautiful! Paula
Beautifully done ❤️
Thanks, Carmen!
👋🏼Thank you Mike! New supporter here. I can't wait to check out your other videos!🌻🌞🤍
Awesome thank you! Welcome to the family.
Aww... thanks Mike!
Just a friendly suggestion. I ordered some seedling starter trays off of Amazon because of your suggestion. I checked to see if you had an affiliate link in your description section... sadly you didn't. Maybe something to consider. I always use them to show my appreciation for the help I receive from content creators.
Thanks again my new found brother! 🌞🌱🌬🤍
You may want to add more... the shears are not available also. 😘
Fantastic... I am going to try... Thank you...
Have fun, Milani!
Awesome video, beautiful plant/cuttings
Thanks, MaryAnne!
Love your videos! I bought my Hormodin and am going to get some baskets going with fall color! Thank you!
Right on! I love fall colors.
I wanna try this one what you did Mike.. Amazing works.. Much love and God bless watching from Philippines..
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
@@MikeKincaid79 thankyou Mike..
Gorgeous! Ive never had a greenhouse, so Im wondering if that plant will go through any kind of shock when its moved outside? I planted a BUNCH of petunia seeds indoors this spring (heat pads and grow lights) and they came up, and have been “stuck” at about 3/4” inch tall. I cut way back on water- but no change. Got tired of babysitting them and planted outside. They still look the same 🤣
It’s not heated and the temps inside are basically the same as outside. I leave the ends open.
Very very nice 👍
Thanks a lot, Eshir.
Great job!
Thanks, Sharon!
😘very beautiful flowers thankful for great information.
Most welcome, Alladin!
Very cool! I am going to try it out. I want free plants too!!
Do it, Selena, do it!
Hi i have been following your advice on the liquid fertilizer and it has work great this year i started my own petunias from collected seeds how do i get the single plant to spreed out.
Prune, prune, prune!
Beautiful, I hope you hung it up at the house so the family can enjoy it ! Always love your videos
Thanks, Howard! It's actually still in the hoop house but we spend so much time out there anyway.
love your videos, your enthusiasm is amazing wish you could bottle it ....keep up the good work
Hi Mike: Is it possible to get cuttings from my hanging begonia and make a new plant for next year?
Yes, I made a video about begonias last summer. Just search the channel and you'll find it.
Thanks I will look for it!
Thanks l have learned a lot.
Am just loving the red petunia.
Isn't it beautiful!
Love your videos
"Bump your head into it a few more times." Too funny! I'm still laughing. Every video is a "new" education.
LOL, I'm really glad you're enjoying the videos, Andi!
absolutely gorgeous, Mike! Good job. heading to steer vs. chix manure video you mentioned :)
Cool, thanks!
Thank you for such an informative and colourful video. Your secret is safe with me.
You're welcome Allen!
Tq Mike for guidance now I know how to handle my new babies in my garden
Happy to help
Great video Mike keep 'em coming...
Thanks, will do!
Awesome! Those are beautiful! I have a beautiful pink petunia and a smaller red one but it's starting to come out. I think I'm definitely going to do some cuttings now! I don't know why I didn't think to before but I am now!
I've been doing begonia cuttings and it's so easy! I think you should try it. All you have to do is let you chickens get into them and break all the branches, get mad at your chickens then decide "Well, might as well try something" and stick the broken branches in some dirt 😂
I had a massive begonia last year and I had been protecting it from the chickens, then I left the cage off it and the chickens broke it. And how I have a bunch of begonias from it that made it through the winter! I've even done a few cuttings off of last year's cuttings!
I did a begonia video last year but it was later in the year and took awhile to root. Got them rooted by the skin of my teeth, lol.
@@MikeKincaid79 oh😂 probably why I thought to
beautiful mike
I love watching your videos....waiting dor more....
I'll keep making them as long as you keep watching them.
@@MikeKincaid79 you can count on me...,😊😊😊😊
Aside from an informative video...best thumbnail ever!👍🏼
Thanks so much, Shannon, I work hard on all of it!
Looks gorgeous. I bought some this year kept watering but mine are growing up tall not cascading down any tips? They seem thin in foliage. I dead head them everyday is that too much? Should I clip them down like you said? Please get back to me ASAP thanks again for posting videos like this. Gonna check out the wife’s channel now
Pruning them will cause them to branch much more and get really thick and full. I don't deadhead petunias, just let them grow and bloom and then when they start looking scraggly and unkempt I prune them way back and watch them grow and bloom again even better.
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Awesome video mike 👍👍
Thanks, Sandra!
what's the fertilizer you put on top after puttintg the 4 petunias seedlings in the pot?
Apex Cool Weather Special, slow release fertilizer. I have a video about it in detail.
Thank you for showing this valuable video. I have a question can we plant this in hydroponic system, starting from seeds??? And what is the steps for that thank you for responding
You’re very welcome! I’ve never grown these hydroponically but I’m sure it would work well.
@@MikeKincaid79 thank you
I bought some petunias this year that I'm just in love with and I'm hoping this works for me because they're a little expensive there are certain kind which I shall not name on here lol.
The first set that I tried I might have fried them oops. I'm trying again and this time I brought them inside.
I have them in a plastic dollar store container with a couple of small holes in the lid. I'm wondering if I should put a couple more holes in the lid.
Just don't overwater.
I love ur work and believe ur an expert but I just cant bring myself to cut the flowers off but I know there are reasons to do so.
You can leave them on too but they won't grow as tight and full. Either way, they'll be beautiful. The cool thing about petunias is they recover very quickly and will be blooming again in no time.
I love ❤ so beautiful 😊
Plants are the best!
Bravo❤️❤️❤️❤️🌷
Beautiful!! You are a master at what you do. 😚
Nature does it, I just coax it along. Glad you can enjoy these petunias another year. I know how much you like them.
Hi Mike I like to know how to keep the beautiful flower for next year. I like to see the cuttings.
I made a video about it last August and another one just the other day. I filmed these petunias under my indoor grow lights through this winter.
Hey Mike, u really know how to talk man... Thanx for sharing the tips.... I am gonna do this....... Thanks brooo
My problem is that I can't shut up, lol.
Hi Mike one question the fertilizer mix that you make is it for plants in soil only. I was going to put a plant in leca.Thank you and congratulations on starting to build your dream home.
I use it for houseplants only. Once they go outside for the summer, I use a slow release fertilizer.
@@MikeKincaid79 Thank you they are houseplants growing in Leca.
Mike, my hanging basket has an inner coir lining in it. Is that alright to use??
Yes, as long as you keep it watered. Those baskets can dry out sooner and petunias need a lot of water.
Wow gorgeous 🌻
Thank you! 😊
Wonderful colourful basket. I used to be able to grow bushes with petunias, now they don’t seem to grow like that.
Time to get back to your roots. What did you do differently then?
Beautiful great job
Thanks!
This is mad! I've watched the late cutting series and am astonished at how well it works out. I have seeds germinating for a summer display and am so looking forward to choosing one or two colours to expand through successive cuttings over winter and early spring. I do have a couple of questions: How many hours a day are the lights on? (I'm currently paying 0.5 GBP (0.75 USD) per kWh for electricity here in the UK and fear it will be cheaper to buy plants than run the lights over winter). Also, I believe pelargonium geraniums are traditionally over-wintered by bringing them into a frost-free space and letting them almost dry out to make them dormant. Do you know if petunias would survive a similar dormancy? They grow so quickly, I'm hoping I could make them dormant to save on electric lighting, wake them in the spring, and still get enough cuttings for a splendid display. Love your channel, new sub. Thanks!
As far as electric cost, that's going to vary from place to place, but there are so many more considerations involved than just money. Don't forget that you'll actually enjoy growing these all winter and seeing blooms in your home. The light cost is negligent though. It doesn't amount to much at all if you use simple fluorescent bulbs. Yes, you can also, just bring them into a cooler place that doesn't go below freezing, but gets cold, and allow them to go dormant. I've done that before as well.
Pretty! I think that I would have kept the blooms when I transplanted the petunias into the hanging basket. I don't care much for petunias though. For hanging baskets, I prefer fuchsias.
Cutting them back causes them to bush out even more and eventually got more bud sites for more profuse blooms. I love fuchsias too! They make beautiful hanging baskets. Maybe there's a video in the future on it.
Hey Mike Since you cut all the tops of the plants . Would it be possible to get those cuttings and propagate those too? Or are they too small to do it?
Yes, you can root them too.
Hey Mike is it possible to propagate hydrangea cuttings using the method you used to propagate the rose cuttings??
Yes, I've got many videos about propagating hydrangea!
Beautiful
Thanks, Chrystal!
Hello Mike
My wife loves Hydrangeas I have got like three and have lost every one of them. We are in west Texas and I just thank its to hot for them any suggestions.
Thanks for doing the Ch. lots of great ideas from you.
I'm in zone 8b and I think you're in a similar zone. I'd just be sure to try planting them on the north side of a building where it's mostly shade and mulch really well to keep moisture down near the roots all summer.
The Yoda of propagation folks
Petunias are some of my favorite flowers, but I’m having trouble keeping them happy. I live in Phoenix, and it’s ridiculously hot here in the summer. From mid Spring till early Fall here they seem to die away, but will come back once the weather cools down. I have a bed of them that has come back twice since I planted them early in 2021. Is there something I need to be doing to keep them blooming through the summer?
Phoenix is a tough one. I'd plant them in a shaded location and mulch well.
@@MikeKincaid79 Yep, that’s what I thought! Thanks
Lovely!🏵
Thanks, Mike!
Amazing Mike! I have been trying a while now to root petunia cuttings with miracle grow rooting hormone without any luck. What rooting hormone do any of you guys recommend?
Petunias should root easily without hormone but I use Hormodin #3
@@MikeKincaid79 I will order on Amazon. Thanks Mike!!
Handsome gardener 🙂
Love the thumbnail Mike lol......keep up the videos my friend, they are great.
Thanks, Matt, I've heard that twice now about the thumbnail. Sometimes I get lucky and find the needle in the haystack.
Know they be beautiful
Can you show this again you trimming it & in Aug ?
I really wanted to see it fill the pot and flow over the sides but maybe we can do both in one summer, we'll see.
Thanks for sharing this info! I'm curious- have you ever grown a Crossandra plant? It's new to me, I only came across it this weekend, but I don't see many English-speaking videos here on youtube on the Crossandras.
I've never grown it but just looked it up and it sure is a beautiful plant. Do you grow it as a houseplant or are you in a warmer climate?
@@MikeKincaid79 I'm in Georgia. I'm now researching them myself- it can be grow as both indoor or outdoor.
Beautiful! Hugs🤗💜
Thanks, Camelia, hugs! Haven't forgot your raspberries, just need to get my act together.
No problem Mike! If you keep them long enough I might need to give you a different address...lol
BEAUTIFUL.... DO YOU STILL HAVE TO TRIM BACK THE FLOWERS?
You don't have to now, they'll continue to grow and bloom like crazy. I could prune back again and it would just grow back even bushier.
Petunia baskets--do you deadhead all summer and do you also clip out seed pods when they start growing
I don't deadhead them, just let them do their thing.
Do you have any videos on the best ferns for hanging baskets
I don't but it sounds like a great idea! Thanks, Sandra.
I bought some petunias at home depot the ones in the small black containers with eight should I plant them all in one container
Sure, it just depends on your goal. Packing them in tight is the way to get a really huge and thick pot of flowers!
Guess what those petunias did better than the wave ones in the pink containers
Great stuff love your vids
Thanks!
Omg so does that mean that during the winter I can bring into my home n hang my hanging baskets. Cuz I'm tired of every year having to rebuy hanging baskets for my patio. Cuz of the winter here.
Yes, absolutely! You will have to prune the roots back too though for more vigorous growth. Or you can take cuttings when spring nears and replant the rooted cuttings in the same basket. I have multiple videos of me doing just that. Overwintering indoors and taking cuttings through the winter and just repeating the cycle until spring.