my pansy buds wont open up and bloom

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walnutcouch mumbai, India Jan 29, 2014

Hello everybody,
This is my first post here.
I purchased pansies about 2 weeks ago from a local nursery,when it was blooming nicely.but now, after new buds have come up, they just wont open.they have been going like this for days now.new buds develop but Thats it.no flowers
The plant seems healthy, but the buds just dont open.the little yellow dot next to the coleus is the pansy bud.i could really use some advice here so please help

Wow! Thnk you so much fr the information, cville_gardener.thats a big help! All this while I thought it was d temperature .it is around 84 f here in mumbai.
But it does confuse me , cz the earlier flowers did bloom.its just these 3 which are showing petals, but like u noticed too... no bloom.:(:(
Guess ill just wait some more then:):):)

Thank you.:):):)

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Cville_Gardener Clarksville, TN(Zone 7a) Jan 30, 2014

Those may be cleistogamous flowers that you are seeing. Give the plants some time to see if they resume chasmogamous blooming.

"Viola (Pansy) are most often spring blooming with chasmogamous flowers with well-developed petals pollinated by insects. Many species also produce self-pollinated cleistogamous flowers in summer and autumn that do not open and lack petals. In some species the showy chasmogamous flowers are infertile.

After flowering, fruit capsules are produced that split open by way of three valves. On drying, the capsules may eject seeds with considerable force to distances of several meters."

Violas do prefer a sunny location.

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