FLOWERING, SHY: Lack of Blooms

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by Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler)

Originally published in The Orchid Doctor in 1980 and 1988

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If it is a healthy plant it may be a genetic lack or fault, or, lack of light intensity, or a food lack. AU84-204 -- in Cattleya mossiae = this plant needs two or three weeks starting in November at a temperature of 58 dF, to start flowering in the already formed sheaths. A82-1178
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