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Omono
I've got several large bougies that were growing like weeds and, in the past week, slowed significantly...I didn't realize why (though I suspected as much) until today, when I found one of them sporting 4 shoots that were setting flower bracts... Bougies go from flowering to vegetative phase, back&forth, and they spend a lot of time in their flowering-phase so, since I'm just looking for growth/girth, I'm not happy with them going into flowering.
I know that I can stop a flowering-phase by doing a heavy pruning (they're not quite ready for it, but I'm guessing that doing that, despite being a time-loser, would be made-up by the time spent not flowering), however I've started thinking that, maybe, I can just remove the flower/bract buds as they appear! If that were to work w/o issue it'd be ideal, I could keep my longish branches growing and hardly skip a beat, but am afraid the plant will just keep trying to push flower buds (if it's genetically expecting a flower-phase for ~4+ weeks, and I start pinching them, something tells me there's a good chance I'll spend 4+wks pinching flower buds & not getting any vegetative growth)
Thanks for any thoughts on this! I should note that most of the bougies in question were collected a little under 5mo ago, but they're bougies ie they root&shoot very fast&hardy, they're not old but they seem quite well-established based on root density and growth habits in the canopy
I know that I can stop a flowering-phase by doing a heavy pruning (they're not quite ready for it, but I'm guessing that doing that, despite being a time-loser, would be made-up by the time spent not flowering), however I've started thinking that, maybe, I can just remove the flower/bract buds as they appear! If that were to work w/o issue it'd be ideal, I could keep my longish branches growing and hardly skip a beat, but am afraid the plant will just keep trying to push flower buds (if it's genetically expecting a flower-phase for ~4+ weeks, and I start pinching them, something tells me there's a good chance I'll spend 4+wks pinching flower buds & not getting any vegetative growth)
Thanks for any thoughts on this! I should note that most of the bougies in question were collected a little under 5mo ago, but they're bougies ie they root&shoot very fast&hardy, they're not old but they seem quite well-established based on root density and growth habits in the canopy