In both crosses I referred to, each vendor had a large quantity of plants of each cross, all large mature well grown healthy plants, non of which had yet flowered. They were dumping them at a show as a "Show special". I would jump to the conclusion that these were all siblings of the same cross, all refusing to flower, all being dumped to cut the growers loss. In the case of Vanda tesselata x Aerides lawrencea, the vendor was a large Palm Beach County vanda grower who I see regularly at shows. He claims they have flowered this cross......which is suspect to me as when I purchased the plant at the Redlands show a few years back, he had dozens of this cross for sale, all over 3' tall, non of which had flowered.
More importantly, has anyone heard of smashing the bases of the stems to initiate flowering? ......or any other extreme measure to try to force a plant into flower?
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