After a few years of orchid-keeping, did you hit on some kind of funky fertiliser or variation in your husbandry that suddenly turned your orchids into prolific, reliable flowerers? What have you learned to do differently that's made all the difference to flowering?

I ask because I have a lot of orchids of various genera that have well and truly hit flowering size this year, and the weather's been great, yet hardly any flowering.

In contrast, I've found the key to making almost every other non-orchid plant flower like crazy! It's a delightful combination of wood ash, compost and pee. It's most likely not suitable for orchids, but has highlighted the point that hitting on the 'certain something' that's missing can truly work wonders.