| My guess is that genetics has a lot to do with it. I've noticed as well that within the same genera you can have nearly all doing well and then one or two that are for some reason not so well. Different parents from a different part of the world? New to your collection and still not adapted to your growing environment? Still recovering from abuse PRIOR to your acquisition? What kind of phal is it? Pretty short spikes to be blasting buds already - is it a species plant? I think those can definately be more temperamental than the hybrids. mike |