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Roger Tonkin[_2_] · 11-10-2013, 10:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

In article ,
says...

It's to do with the temperature especially at night. The professional
competition growers use that fact to grow more and more flower on the same
spike, how they keep the original flowers from deteriorating over the months
is an amazing bit of plant keeping. I've seen pictures of huge spikes of
flowers but can't find any on the web.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.

That is interesting, Bob. We have off peak
electric/storeage heaters, so in the winter the
temperature does not fall that much overnight. The
heating was switched on (low) round about the same
time as the extra buds on the stem started to develop.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales