flower next we're going to show you how to deadhead zinnias some zinnias need deadheading and some down these videos in this container our profusion Phineas and Magellan typically the profusion don't need deadheading if they're in a garden because there's so much soil they typically don't need the deadheading in a container they sometimes need deadheading actually I always deadhead them in a container if you take a look at these profusion zinnias here you can see the center's and as they go past boom they get darker and darker and the color of the flower fades away what you want to do is you can see here the flower spike right here just cut it down right to the next set of leaves and by doing that you're going to end up getting a lot more flowers from the plant because as a plant is growing you don't want it to put energy into flowers that are already passed by you might as well clean those up and just let the plant put its energy into creating more flowers it's very easy if you do it once a week or once every two weeks with zinnias that's probably enough and that that'll make a big