| Hi Jag, I have not got many Phals so I don't consider myself qualified to suggest reasons for the way blooms are produced but I think Aniko has the right of it. Growing conditions and care must have a great influence on how a plant will do well. I have a phal that was bought last year with one spike and five or six flowers. After over-wintering, this year has produced two spikes and when all the buds had opened it now has thirty three flowers. The spikes have each got five branches with numbers of flowers on each branch. This plant has not had any different treatment than others and if I was asked to explain the large number of blooms I think I must accept that it is genetic. The parents were probably multifloral from a long line.
Bill. |