Hi, and thanks,

Although you may be able to manipulate the cool temperatures, you are
unable to
manipulate the warm temperatures and sunshine in Canada.

Want a bet?

While I can't affect the weather outside, I can arrange for the plants to
get lots of heat and light indoors. You see, my sister keeps the thermostat
cranked up high during the winter to I find it almost as hot inside during
the winter as it is during most of the summer. Needless to say, the heating
bills this year were brutal.

Nobiles flower on mature growth, and in nature this is after the end of
the
second year, with the first year being interrupted by cool weather, which
initiates flower production on the previous years growth which has now
matured.
The only one I know of that manipulates flower production in nobiles is
Yamamoto, in HI. If you will note new flowering plants from his nursery,
you
will see that flowers are on this years growth; and there is usually new
growth
which in your growing area will not flower until two years from now.
He does this by growing this years growth to maturity, at sea level (warm)
in
HI, and then taking them to his other nursery in the mountains where they
receive cool temperatures which initite flower formation.

This suggests that my nobiles may respond. And if they don't, I can live
with an annual cycle. But it would be fun to try to see what happens.

Cheers,

Ted