"Sacha" wrote

I bought one of these some time ago and it has bloomed from around March
until a week ago, when the flowers started to wither and drop off. Pretty
good value, I'd say. BUT having transferred it to the 'hospital' window in
the kitchen, I glanced at it the other day, wondering if the stem was dying
back, To my surprise and pleasure, one withered flower was still clinging
on but further up exactly the same stem, new buds are forming. I've never
seen this happen before on any of my other Phals.

Quite normal. It's why you should never cut the flower stem off a Phal
unless it goes brown and dead. The show experts use this trait to enable
them to produce lots of flowers by changing the temperature at which the
plant is kept so extending the flower spike a number of times. You may find
the spike branches onto a number of extended spikes before flowering, I
think that is when they are at their most beautiful.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK