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Re: thyme flowering

At 08:05 AM 4/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
>My thyme is flowering in the greenhouse. There are several different
>kinds.  Do I remove the flowers?  Some of them flower on every stem,
>others have a whorling affect.  I'm afraid they may flower themselves to
>death.
>Sheryl in Western Colorado

Sheryl:

If you have good air flow and dry air in your greenhouse, there should be no
problem.  The only susceptible plants would be the more xeric forms with
grey, hairy foliage, like wooly thyme.  On these, it wouldn't hurt to do a
little dead-heading after the bloom has spent.  Most of these problems occur
during the short-day season in January or February with extended cloudy weather.

Since Colorado is supposed to be the skin cancer capital of the US due to
the light intensity, I doubt you will have any problems.  My experience was
with somewhat poor light transmitting plastic greenhouses in Massachusetts.

Rich Dufresne
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