Cyclamen Question

Hi, I have a question in relation to Cyclamen. Where possible I will deadhead as required(pulling the stem down where it meets the soil), but having been away for a few days I got back and noticed some dead flower heads on the ground and what looks like a bud now at the end of the stem. Will the bud flower again or should I remove the full stem with the bud if I want another flower?
I have included 3 pics, which show 3 different states of the stems.
One is in flower, second pic looks like it’s about to flower again despite looking drooped over and the third just looks like a bud and I’m not sure does that change and look like the second pic or what exactly.
Ideally, I just want it to keep flowering.

Thanks

 

Are they in the ground?
Never pruned cyclamen.

 

Hi, no the are in a hanging planter basket.

 

Just been researching this myself. I think that picture 1 is a flower, picture 2 is a new bud which will grow up and open, and picture 3 is the one to deadhead, the flower has faded and fallen off, leaving what will become a seed head.
Hopefully someone more experienced will come and correct me if I’m wrong!

 

The round thing, pic 3, is a seed pod forming, can't say I've ever bothered dead heading cyclamen.
The stem eventually coils up .

 

Thanks, this was my understanding too but wasn’t sure do you live the bud/stem with the bud or pod and it eventually flowers again or not.

Ok, interesting. Maybe I have been doing work I haven’t needed to. But when the flower looks to be dying it does look unsightly which is why I did deadhead by removing the full stem.
But just wasn’t sure what the seed pod or bud as I called it turns into if anything or should be removed at the stem too.

 

You certainly won't do any harm removing the dead flowers, Its just that I've never bothered .
I might pull off any dead petals that remain.

Cyclamen seed pods are quite interesting imo.
The stem coils and drags the seed pod down into the centre of the plant.
The pod opens next spring to reveal sticky seeds.

 

I never take the flowers off as they drop quickly themselves. Then you see the seed pod forming, as @pete says, which is a lovely. That 'coiled spring' waiting to launch itself.
I can't see the pic well enough, but I'm guessing those are the non hardy type - C. persica, rather than C.hederifolium?

 

I only grow hardy cyclamen in the garden but the routine is the same. To keep the corm flowering for as long as possible, remove any dead flowers and stems. Should you miss one, a seed pod will form, a round pea shaped growth on the end of a spiralling dead stem. If left, mice will collect the seeds and carry them away to their food stash. I have seedlings popping up in all sorts of places, usually in cracks in walls etc. because I never dead head. As yours are in hanging baskets there is much less chance of seedlings, especially if your corms are the larger flowered tender house plant type. Leaving seed pods on plants means less energy will go into flowering and the flowering season will be shorter. The house plant type are frost tender so will keel over if you have a frost, unless they are under cover and protected.

 

I've never bothered deadheading cyclamen. The seed pods themselves are quite attractive - the stem coils itself up like a spring ready to launch the seeds when they're ripe. The hederifolium and coum forms self-seed a bit here, but I don't know about the bedding-type hybrids. I think the frost usually sees them off here before the seeds get ripe.

 

I never bother deadheading/cutting my Cyclamen ( all hardy types) but do sometimes take the seed pods off when ready and plave them in a smalled plastic bag with damp compost and can get a fair few new seedlings. Potted on for a few months and then planted. Works well for me,

 

We have plenty growing wild in the garden, and never do anything to them. However, I bought some for a couple of hanging baskets, and have been deadheading them in the hope of keeping the flowering season going. I must go and examine the wild ones, I’ve never actually seen any seed heads. Sounds interesting.

 

I might try collecting seed from my white ones @Philippa . I've never tried it, but the whites are my favourite, so it's worth a go. They definitely don't spread as readily as the pink ones, which I'm not so keen on.
I've only ever used the persicas as a kind of late bedding plant. They're handy for that, especially in a pot near a door or similar, but they don't manage winter at all here. I think I managed to keep one plant going for a little while, but once winter properly kicked in, that was it.
Maybe with the changing climate, they'll be a bit more long lived for people, which would be nice.

 

Wow! Went down the garden last night (in the dark, with my head torch on!) - I was putting supper out for the badger and did a detour.
Very impressed to see the seed heads in their coiled up stems on a white cyclamen growing under the trees. Had no idea they did that!

 

Nice when you discover something 'new', isn't it @Ergates ?
It's easy to miss them - they blend in so well with their surroundings. Even the ones I have growing in the gravel [most of them are in that] are hard to spot, because the seed pods sit on it, blend with the darker bits of gravel, and the seed disappears into it. You have to get down close enough to spot them, but it's lovely when they appear as little plants a year or two later.