In article J_sOi.3324$ai2.1614@trndny05, "BD" wrote:

With the warm temps in the Northeast, (going to be 90 today in Pittsburgh)
my rhododendren are again in bloom. Will this kill the spring blooms?
Should I nip the blooms? Any ideas?

I have a Lee's Best Purple that blooms twice each year. The spring
flowering is always very thick with blooms, the autumn flowering is only
half as dense. But it never seems like the autumn bloomers weaken spring
bloom at all. The worst that happens is an early frost stops the autumn
bloom midway through opening, & the half-opened buds might just as well
but pinched off as they'll never do more.

-paghat the ratgirl
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