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More leaves produce more energy hence more blooms.
True or false ?

Not the case with plants like Bougainville, cherry tree, and dozens of other kinds...


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False for several fruit varieties

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Plants having long life are interested in survival, they flower/fruit for survival, if they have good vegetative growth they do not care to set seed and bloom profusely under stress (my observation/opinion).
But do the annuals and bulbs behave the same way?

No annuals do not behave such....more the vegetative growth more the flower. cauz they are programmed to end with season, which is inevitable. they try to live as long as they can.....but can not......they have no choice but to bolt at certain stage and if the vegi growth is more they will have more blooms

Farhan Ahmed wrote:No annuals do not behave such....more the vegetative growth more the flower. cauz they are programmed to end with season, which is inevitable. they try to live as long as they can.....but can not......they have no choice but to bolt at certain stage and if the vegi growth is more they will have more blooms

Excellent, I feel it is true for bulbs and tubers too.
Amaryllis with good roots and more leaves has bigger bulb and likely to give more scapes, same in Daylilies better roots better leaves more fans mean more blooms.
Abrar mumtaz owner of Fazal Din Pharma now growing only daylilies is using these hormones regularly and is sold to their use three weeks ago I saw buds on some of his Daylilies.

My observation is that a leafy growth due to excess nitrogen suppresses bloom formation and fruit formation.. it also decreases the quality of blooms and fruit.. best examples are tomatoes, beans, trailing petunia, cauliflower, broccoli, dahlia, poppy, roses...

The bases for use of plant hormones is more roots, more foliage, bigger plants more blooms.
It is rather complicated for me.

In my lilium experience heavy vegetative growth due to excessive nitrogen feed did not add the value as number of flower buds already decided in bulb embryo during chilling. More foliage more pressure on bulbs for nutrients so weaken bulb development. Flowers developed and bloomed better with potassium feed and bulbs develop better with phosphate feed.
So the balance between feeds and each feed timing is the key.
Mango tree goes dormancy in winter, In past I used lot of watering and nitrogen feed in winters and always resulted in flower deformation/malfication or early vegetative growth without flowering/fruit.
In my opinion hormones are best used in tissue culture and seed germination process where quick and rapid vegetative growth is required for mass-propagation with very litter hormone concentrations.