"Steve" wrote in message
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This sounds like a test of wills to me. The plant wants flowers and you
want leaves. (99% of the time, it's the other way around.)

Steve,

Ain't that the truth!

I've also got this Dtps that I just removed a yellow leaf off of, that has
19 healthy leaves remaining, one of which is brand new, but it has not
flowered since December 2003 (the initial flowering, so it has not
reflowered for me yet). Now what does this Dtps need 19 leaves for, when
most others are satisfied with fewer than half as many? Couldn't it be a
good 'chid and learn to share with those less fortunate than it (like the
aforementioned two-leaved one)?

One time I was summarizing for myself and my husband how many orchids we
have grouped by color, and I counted this at-the-time 20-leaved Dtps as one
of the 'greens', since that's the only color it seems capable of producing.
:-)

Joanna