Did you do anything special to get yours to bloom? My friend said hers hasn't bloomed and she bought it from a reputable grower. She feeds it a 10 10 10 or a 20 20 20 regularly and fish emulsion, once in a while .

Lots of sun helps a lot. Some canes bloom under lights while others rarely bloom even in full sun. Cracklin Rosie is one I've never seen bloom and Sophie is another one. I've seen several photos of Lady Vanderwilt blooming its fool head off yet I've never seen mine bloom.

Lana easily blooms under lights though. My own seed grown maculata hybrid blooms easily under lights. Blooms are nice especially if you want to grow some canes from seed but I grow mainly for the foliage.

Here is a photo of Irene Nuss that blooms better than my own. I gave a rooted cutting to my mother a few years ago and she had it at her kitchen door on the deck where it gets some sun (she has an arbor over this part of the deck) through a lot of the day.

But the year before is a prettier plant while the blooms were much lower.

Here is one of my own Irene plants without blooms (last year late July) Incredible growth in just a few months since it was killed to the ground by leaving the pot outside until early December 2015. Lana is next to it in the same pot (has some silver splashes) - full hot afternoon sun.

Same pot the year before (August 2015) before the big freeze

Nokomis is a fairly easy bloomer as well

If you want blooms consider Dragon Wings and Big - blooms all summer long.

I hate the name 'Big' as I tag a lot of my pictures 'big X' where X can be almost anything.

Here are two pots of Big (green with red blooms and bronze with pink blooms) next to the pot of big canes I showed above.

And I have cut back on Dragon Wings but still one of the best bloomers in full sun. Six plants in this bed - full sun 2007.

Thanks I have all of those except for Irene Nuss. The Dragon wings mold when I put them outside and in the house they don't get enough sun. I'm li

mited to growing under lights or in front of the windows in the summer . And my friend, however, grows hers outside in the summer in Tennessee where it's nice and humid and she has not had blackjack bloom for her at all . This is my first time attempting to grow blackjack and is doing well in the bathroom for now, but once winter sets in it'll probably be too cold in there and I'll have to move it in the guest bedroom. I read on one of the nurseries that sells blackjack that they are almost blooming continuously with red blooms. And that it's easy to grow as long as you don't overwater it . So all I can do is try who knows I may be able to figure out a way to put it under the lights for the winter and get it to bloom , My Sophie Cecile hasn't bloomed either. I'm gonna try putting some coffee on it and see if that makes it bloom. It's certainly root bound enough but I need to transplant it and it's not gonna happen this year it'll probably be spring . Have a great day enjoy your plants !

Hmmm, I've never seen mold or mildew on Dragon Wings (ever). What are you doing different?

Sophie is a very shy bloomer from all the things I've read. Does the coffee come with cream and sugar? HA!

I cut all my big canes back in the fall/winter and started the tops in drinking cups. Gave away a bunch and still potted up 17 a week ago and have 7 more left to do (ran out of pots that day). Potted up over 70 starter plants on Saturday (mostly rex). My common canes were just cut to the ground and left on the ground last fall and I and a club member saw a few of those this spring trying to sprout new plants at the nodes just laying on the ground - must be pretty hardy?

One of my better bloomers is this white no name cane - about four feet tall in a hanging basket sharing with Alocasia 'Frydek', B. 'Boomer', and B. 'Lucerna'. The white cane took over so I finally cut it to the ground in the fall.

My biggest plant of aconitifolia in 2015 (not even the mother plant but in the biggest pot of all the aconitifolia)

a mixed pot of canes - parviflora, Comte de Lesseps, Nokomis, Lana, My Special Angel, and a few smaller ones.

another no name fairly large cane that rarely blooms.

Esther Albertine is deeply cut and has light pink blooms (when it blooms)

Misting, our humidity is very low here . We are a semi arid environment in western CO . And this time year we get monsoon rains .

Misting is causing mold? Sorry to hear that. Sounds like the spores are on the leaf, the air, or the water in the bottle. I thought we had it bad with usually high humidity but no mold or mildew in warm months. Mildew is a killer come cool weather though and moving indoors into the basement. What do you do to combat the mold/mildew? I started using orchard spray (pyrethrin - sulfur combination) last fall and so far, so good.

Just don't grow any plans that need high humidity. Without misting they dry up and look like a Dehydrated herb .And that way I don't have to mist them...problem solved , the only misting I did was with my hose.