Bud drop

[johnblagg]

etheylene gas given off from ripening fruit is the reason fruit can cause this and I am not sure what levels it would take but in some plants not much ...wood smoke can also do this one apple or banana in a plastic bag will induce some plants to bloom also ...not chids but pineapples for example

[mattryan]

I have a ? I was reading somewhere about terminal bud. Every phal that i have brought home in flower the bud at the very end has not bloomed is this normal? As i have just started off with phals i haven't had them long enough to have gotten them to bloom yet...hopefully some of the ones that i got last yr i can get to bloom this winter. Thanks for the hellp

[johnblagg]

I think that is pretty normal but not a set in stone rule

[RosieC]

Yeah, I usually find a tiny bud on the end of most spikes which does not grow and bloom. Not always, it seems some Phals do it and not others.