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why are my red zonal geraniums not producing any flowers?

help me! i have 4 big window boxes full of red geraniums. unfortunately they are starting to look really bad. the first plant i will discuss- there are about 5 budding heads, which havent actually bloomed yet, and im beginning to think they wont. the plant hardly has any leaves! #2 a couple of the other plants only have leaves and no buds. i have tried coffee grounds, fertilizer..etc. please help me revive these geraniums!

Too much love is a bad thing, It sounds like you are KILLING them with Kindness.
Let me explain, Fertilizers are ALL most ALL WAYS SALT BASED. SO too much salt build up in the planter will burn and kill the roots.
Coffee grounds are ACIDIC, so to put coffee grounds in planters will add to the roots burning. With out roots, the plants cannot take up nutrition, so the leaves yellow and the flowers cannot bloom.
Everything you have described will add to root burn and death.

I do not think the geraniums will come back until August now. But this is how to do it.
Get New Potting soil,no fertilizer added. Replant the geraniums after washing off their roots.
Then plain water for a couple of weeks, no HOT SUN for a while.
When you start to see new growth, add only 1/3 the recommended feed from the package directions. Slowly increase it to the full amount over a couple of weeks of watering. Add nothing else! Except the one fertilizer that you have chosen!!! Or you will burn the new roots ALL OVER AGAIN!

My thought is give it up, put then in the back of the house and start over, potting soil and all in the window boxes.
JUST do not over LOVE your plants again. Geraniums do not like ALL DAY SUN either, no matter what the stupid label said! For all day sun, get Scavolia, or Petunia.

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