Datura rebloom?

Several weeks ago, my datura had a massive bloom of about 135 blossoms over a two day period. Noticed about 7-10 days later, every one of the stalks had already produced big ol seed pods and figuring what the heck, maybe it would bloom again, I removed about 95% of those seed pods. Now, the plant is about to burst forth with another huge bloom set.
For those familiar with daturas, did removing the seed pods cause the formation of new flower buds or is this something that occurs on a regular basis but just never happened my own plant which is actually several years old...

Nice plant and seems easy to care for since it's basically a cultivated weed to start with.
Just curious...
Two pics are from the inside of the fence and one pic of the escapee branches that grew through the fence.
Thanks for any comments.
Steve

Yes, Daturas do rebloom quite often and you have been blessed with very healthy plants Congratulations!!!
I don't think the removal of the seed pods influenced the rebloom.
I love Daturas, the scent is amazing when they open in the evening. Have you watched the hummingbird moths come to them at night?
We used to go out with a flashlight to see them, so much fun to watch!!

Yes, I think part of the fun is not only watching the blooms open up in such a short amount of time but also watching the critters flock to them before they close up again. This last bloom set attracted more honeybees than I've seen on the rest of my plants all year long...

It's also quite interesting to see the neighbors who typically drive up and down the alley behind me (all garages are on alley, not in front) slow down or slam on the brakes to look at the blooms. One person even stopped to ask in the evening... "wasn't that plant covered with blossoms just this morning? Where are they now?"

Well, what can i say? Texas native plants are truly amazing, but the sad part is that most Texans don't know them at all, Sigh.

Quite honestly, I wonder if about 50-60% of the people on my block know that there are plants in this world of ours anyway. Not an expensive or ritzy neighborhood in any shape or fashion but in the 16 years we've been here, we've seen the neighborhood go from green and pretty to rentals where the grass doesn't get mowed (and that's assuming there's even any grass left to mow), trees that are either dead or hacked to death by itinerant fly by night tree trimmers operating out of a pickup truck you'll never see again, etc. Even if the occupants do plant something, usually in too small of a pot to start out with, it's never watered so you get to look at dead flowers by the middle of the next week.
We've been under Stage III water restrictions for much of the summer but I notice that several houses with pools (I only know that because I looked up my house on Google Earth one day just to see if you really could see it from space... and you could) still flush more water down the alley on any given day cleaning their pool filter than I use in a week just to keep stuff alive.

I guess that it really boils down to whether you take pride in the property where you reside or not and how in tune you try to be with the environment...
I'd better stop now before my true feelings start to creep out about the situation and I get chastised by management...
Steve

Yes, better to stop now before you get in trouble.
I think you need to start doing things with people who are like minded. Why not start by coming to our swap here in Arlington and meeting all of us people from the Texas forum?

TXSkeeter--Are your Datura tied up to those posts and the fence? That's what I see in your pictures. I have been wanting a Datura, but didn't have a spot where it could crawl and sprawl. I can always find a piece of fence that needs to be covered up!! LOL

bezziec: Typically this plant doesn't get as big as it did this year nor has it ever needed staking before. Even now, what you see has been trimmed back here and there to reduce the width and depth as it shaded out everything underneath it. The metal post is a standard 6' Tee-post which was left over from some project long forgotten, hammered in and tied to prevent the plant from taking even more space as it started to lean left greatly about mid summer. Since a couple of the large roots had already been severed (I'm clumsy at times when digging in amendments), I didn't want to stress the plant further by not staking it and possibly losing even more roots. Usually, it's stout enough to withstand about anything on it's own barring some major disaster.
I let this Datura get this big simply because that corner is somewhat of a wasteland as far as plantings go. The bed is fairly narrow on both sides at the corner and sunlight is minimal once the Red Oak 8' away leafs (leaves?) out totally by mid Spring. To be sure, the tree is diagonally far enough away from the corner to be a non issue but there's not enough room behind/beside it to do much with anyway so I let the Datura go for broke and get as large as it wants to. What you don't really see is perhaps another third of the plant (volume wise) that has snuck branches through the wood fence and grow with no ill effects to either the fence or the plant. The plant will be trimmed nearly to the ground as soon as it freezes back and I fully expect it to return next year just like it does every year.
Although I've never tried it on purpose, I'm pretty sure that you could train this plant to grow almost anyway you want it since it takes spot trimming well as long as you stagger the timing of the cuts... perhaps 3-4 cuts this week, a couple more cuts in another ten days, and so on. While I can't see trying to train it like you would a hedge, with a sharp set of hand pruners and some forethought, shaping should be easy if it gets too big or gawky for your taste...
Hope that helps with your decision...
Steve