weird. Does FM sell anything that these could be?
Lori

maybe a very high nitrogen level in the soil with not enough phosphorus? That might have enhanced the vegetative growth to the eclusion of flowering....although its kind of a stab in the dark.

my experience with marigolds is that they put on lots of vegetative growth through the hot season and bloom in the cool... right now i have some dwarf heirloom ones that castorp gave me last winter... they bloomed nicely all spring. they're healthy and happy and taller than promised, but they haven't bloomed all summer.

I've had that same problem with cosmos! Gynormous plants and no flowers. It could be I planted in the wrong season.

My neighbor had some planted by her granddaughter. Took forever to grow ~ now blooming like crazy.
Kat

Hi
I usually run this bed with Impatiens in the winter marigolds in the summer mainly because they never fail lol.. Have been filling in with amazon lily but don't have enough yet.
They must have mixed the seeds up but have never had that happen before though once had purple Zinnias that were pink lol but that was from a discount seed house.
Oh well guess I'll let them continue until IMP time
Thanks for the info Always something new to learn about gardening ?? gary

Too much nitrogen or shade causes leafy plants with few flowers.
Read this on the UF site . Also learned that there are two different kinds of marigolds - Tagetes and Calendula . Tagetes is susceptible to many diseases and pests while the Calendula is not .
Thanks for posting your question garyfla . I learned something new .