Aside from Catts that sometimes make empty sheaths if they're not strong enough to bloom, I think all other plants that spike will bloom. If a plant has the energy to send up a spike it will have buds, or else growing the spike was pointless for the plant. It's just the bloom count that will be different. A first time bloomer will have a lot less buds than when it's fully mature. For example, I got a young Onc intergeneric 2 years ago. First blooming only gave 3 buds on the spike. It's going to bloom aain for the third time since then, and this time the spikes have 9 buds each.
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