>And Diane, if you water you leach and with time your plants starve and have >no additonal reserves to produce flowers. Curiously, results after you start >fertilizing again will be spectacular. Most people will deduce that heavy >fertilization is the best since the plants responded so well to small doses. >But, the plants were only just below ideal conditions. > >Best >Alberto **Succinctly put and easy to understand. Thanks. -- susan hayek, North Coast of CA, USA, zone 9b, Sunset zone 17. 15 miles south of Eureka, CA, with a peek of the ocean.