Begonia Female Flower Removal

I have just read in the gardeing section of the Sunday Mirror magazine (page 11 )..............

Remove female flowers on tuberous begonias , so all the energy goes into making showy double male blooms. Females have winged capsules behind them.

I have inspected my pendulous begonias and the single bloom female flowers are really easy to spot I have removed them , will this make a marked difference to the blooms on the plant and why ?

TIA

 

Hi
All the energy will go into producing more flowers rather than it setting seed , so you fool it in to thinking ,

"must flower I havnt set any seeds"

the plant will flower much longer , thats why we dead head plants as well to take the seed heads off .
Hope I have explained it properley

Spruce

 

Succinct and to the point Spruce.

 

With begonias you should remove the female flowers before they open, as is said to allow all the growth to go to the male, double flower.

So its slightly different from dead heading.

I'm not sure anybody bothers to do this much with the multi flowered tuberous kinds, its more often done on the large flowered double exhibition types, I believe.

 

Thanks Spruce and pete
As the trailing begonias seem to flower 100% without any flower pinching , I think as Pete said its probably not worth the time and effort.