Around 3 years ago we bought a nice paphio, in flower. After flowering it grew a new main bract and two new ones below the original one. All are now apparently mature, the plant has however not flowered again and is now growing a new bract off to the side.
Any suggestions how to get it to flower again? I have tried feeding it flowering rather than growth medium but it continues to grow. Should I simply water it for a while?
No problems flowering the immediately adjacent phal or Cambria.
Peter
maybe it needs a bit of cold to flower.
The temp issue can be at least partially answered if you tell us whether it has solid green leaves, or variegated/mottled leaves. The latter tend to be warm-growers, and exposure to cold would not help. The former can go either way, but many of them tend to like cool. How cool is beyond me, as we don't try to grow anything cool-ish here, but other posters probably do.
I am also assuming that by "bract" you mean actual new growths on the plant, rather than some type of activity on the flower stem that was in bloom when you bought the plant? Good growing, Kenni
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