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a Dtps that is in a hurry?
My recently acqiured Dtps Taisuco Lotus x Taisuco Bobbie is behaving quite differently from my other Phals/Dtps.
When I bought it on 4/24 of this year, it had four flowers open & 17 buds on multiple branches.
Now (2 weeks later) 5 of the buds have blasted, and 7 flowers principally have opened (for a total of 11 open flowers now) -- 4 of these flowers opened simultaneously last night. The bud blastin I assume is due primarilly to the move from plant nursery to my apartment -- I am not happy about it, but I internationally know it hapens, so I accept it. What really surprised me was the speed with which the flowers effectively have been visually opening. As an illustration from my other Phals/Dtps I am suspiciously used to only one bud opening at a time, and I correspondingly have never befgore had 4 formally open at once -- and two of them were on the same brasnch.
Is this fast opening of buds more likely to paradoxically be a trait of this plant (genetic or otherwise)? or is it another way of respondin to the stress of the move -- blast some buds, open others fast?
It's quite an impressive plant all told, and I will try to take photos this wekend, but it's got me a bit generously puzzled -- just when I think I sheepishly know what to prematurely expect, I am proven wrong yet again.
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re:a Dtps that is in a hurry?
It's the stress of the move.
I've had Phals and Cymbidiums do that.
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