Hi marleneann,

Many years ago I also bought a plant of cyanea in flower and when the flowers finished it continued to grow and grow and produced quite a few pups. When these got to a suitable size I removed them and potted them seperately. I finished up with about eight nice healthy looking plants but none of them ever flowered.

I was talking to a lady who was selling brom's at the markets one day and asked what she did to get her cyaneas to flower. The answer was a simple "nothing, and what ever you do don't remove the pups, allow them to clump up"

She said that the single flowering plants that were commonly sold in department stores had usually been gassed to bring them all into flower quickly and at the same time so they could be sold in bulk and all in flower.

I followed her advice, and although I still only have the same eigh plants, the difference is now, that they flower every year.

All the best, Nev.

Good advice Neville ,but if you can't wait then try sitting it near a few ripe apples for a week Marlene the ethelyne gas from the apples should trigger flowering in a few weeks ,
Jack

Thanks Nev and Jack for your advice.

I will try both methods.