Thus spake Bevan Price unto the assembled multitudes:
Did you move the plant ? You should leave it facing the same direction
before and during the budding and flowering period.

I may have jolted the pot during watering but I haven't knowingly changed
its orientation. It's possible someone else has, though.

If you must lift it up to clean underneath the pot, replace it as soon as
possible and point it in exactly the same alignment as it was previously. If
you rotate the plant, the buds try to rotate towards the light and then drop
off.

Water and provide fertiliser if necessary during the flowering period. After
flowering, water sparingly. If the plant is getting old and leggy, I suggest
you take cuttings. Detach a 2 or 3 -leaf segment from the plant and put the
lower end in soil. Mine root very easily and develop into new flowering
plants within 1 to 2 years, although some are out of synchronisation with
the season and only flower in spring.

The 'failed' plant is a cutting from an older plant, taken in the manner you
suggest. However I took just a single-leaf segment.

Many thanks for the advice and suggestions.




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Andy Clews University of Sussex Computing Service
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