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Old 28-01-2004, 07:15 PM
Kay Easton
 
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I have a healthy-looking gardenia plant which grows well with plenty
of healthy-looking glossy green foliage -
which produces plenty of healthy-looking plump green flower buds.

Can anyone suggest a reason to explain why these buds always fall
off before producing any flowers?

Yes - I tried a gardenia once, with the same result. Then I started
poking around in books and discovered that it flowers in a fairly
restricted temperature range. If it's too hot, the flowers fall off, too
cold, the flowers fall off, temperature fluctuates, the flowrs fall off.

I gave it up as a bad job.
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Kay Easton

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