Question about phrags branching.

[Gilda]

If a phrag branches one year and then does not the next..is this normal ? Or is there a reason ? TIA !

 

[NYEric]

What do you mean by "branches"?

 

[SlipperFan]

If a phrag branches one year and then does not the next..is this normal ? Or is there a reason ? TIA !

Sometimes mine will branch later in the same blooming, but I suspect it's just the way things are with Phrags.

 

[Gilda]

What do you mean by "branches"?

Blooms up & down the spike..not just from the tip.

 

[NYEric]

I think fertiizing may have something to do w/ it. I was suprized that some phrags bloom out of order; top then bottom!

 

[Gilda]

I think fertiizing may have something to do w/ it. I was suprized that some phrags bloom out of order; top then bottom!

My Cape Sunset is doing this ..the top has been in bloom for a few weeks..the "branches" haven't opened yet. So you think not enough fertilizer, kind ,or ?

 

[Rick]

I think this is a pretty good question Gilda.

I have a richteri (amazonica). The plant under high light conditions got about as small as my larger peircei, and spikes would never branch, which is supposed to be a characteristic of the species that really separates it from pearcei. After moving it to a cooler and darker spot in the GH the plant went wild. Growths doubled in size (to a normal size for richteri), and about 1/2 the spikes are producing multiple branches.

Since this is the first year this plant has done this well, I don't have other plants of this species in different conditions, and some of the spikes are presently not branching, I can't say what triggers branching other than general plant health.

But it is pretty spectacular how just a move of 5 feet in the GH changed the growth and blooming habit of this plant.

 

[NYEric]

It coould be both amount and type. According to Glen Decker's philosophy I was underfertilizing, but it if the plant's getting the same amount and type as before but not producing the way it did...? I don't know enough about the influence of light except that the overhead light obtainable in a greenhouse situation should produce more growths. IMO.

 

[Jim Toomey]

Gilda,
What type of fertilizer were you using, did you switch, or increase?
PPM Nitrogen?
Thanks,
AHAB

 

[rdlsreno]

I think it is based on the plant strength and health.


Ramon

 

[Gilda]

Gilda,
What type of fertilizer were you using, did you switch, or increase?
PPM Nitrogen?
Thanks,
AHAB

Same balanced fertilizer, no increase. PPM, I do not know. They get what I throw at them.