someone try this

[newton]

There is an ancient technique of shaping or "cascading chrysanthemums" that has been practised and refined in the far east for very many years. there are also some gardens like Longwood in the UK that also copy this technique. It is however quite time intensive and laborious

They usually use chrysanthemum x moriflorum and one of the methods is to provide extra fertiliser and night time lighting to trick the plants into continuous growth thereafter pinching of the growing tips so side shoots develop which are further pinched every ten days.

One of the other techniques is known as stem breaking where the plants are deliberately starved of water until they wilt, the wilted stems are then gently bent and trained to a frame of whatever shape is desired. This way the plant can be made to look like it is indeed growing downwards or cascading with flowers often blooming at the bottom end of a ball shape.

On a visit to the Humble Administrators garden near Shanghai China I saw some of the results of this technique and I noted it for future reference however its not something I have tried myself as it requires a very many hours of preening pruning and shaping.

It is entirely possible to create the football shape chrysanthemum in the picture above from a single or with a bit of cheating from a double or triple plant. One can also create large disbudded blooms, spray forms, and many artistically trained forms, such as thousand-bloom, standard (trees), fans, hanging baskets, topiary, bonsai, and cascades.

[imranarshad263]

but this plant no need for pinching .it is its natural shape

[newton]

Pinching is a method of trimming off the growing tip so two side shoots develop at the next node. both of these are then also pinched out so that four shoots develop and so on. Some of the shoots are allowed to grow longer then the plant is wilted so the longer shoots collapse downwards wheupon they are secured to a wire frame to force them to grow like that. Indeed it can be its natural shape but the skill involved is in making the plant grow to a specific shape without that the plant will naturally grow upright.

Here are two pictures from the longwood gardens blogsite http://longwoodgardens.org/blog/categor ... m-festival showing the process in its earlier stage.

[newton]

Watch and learn how the humble chrysanthemum is made into a spectacular huge umbrella shape with 1167 blooms, each one meticulously placed and of even formation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9bz8iCH3XU

There is also a single plant with 100 different cultivars grafted onto it and each bloom is displayed to perfection

100 blooms grafted onto a single plant

Pagoda Chrysanthemum, you can see that this too is a single plant shaped to this form

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All the photos and information is credited to Longwoodgardens.org

Regards
Ifzal

[Shahidrazzaq]

There are other chrysanthemum varieties that bloom twice a year. Bought two such (not multi flora) plants couple of years ago. Having multiplied them by cuttings, I have a big bed outside my home which blooms twice. Once in November and again in May. The bed still has a few flowers left. Monsoon will take its toll but the plants get vigorous in September and regain all the losses. Wish I knew how to post pictures in this forum. Would have loved to share. The flowers are about 2 inches in shaded red, low height 10-12 inches, don't need support. Will easily fit into the category "plant it and forget it"...
Shahid

[Mustansir Billah]

I feel sorrow for Chrysanthemum plant. Anyways it is spectacular, Superb 100 blooms on a single plant!!!

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

but this plant no need for pinching .it is its natural shape

If you are talking about the first picture plant then I can bet it is reward of lots of pinching, varied fertilisation, controlled temperature and Light as has very well been explained by Afzal.
Adnan is a vendor, keep that in mind.
Arif