Kalanchoe

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I was given a tiny Flaming Katy in January , covered in red flowers. It spent the good weather out of doors but it's now indoors in a bucket, huge and thriving but all leaves and no flowers. Any ideas?

The flowers will come back. Mines the same. It usually flowers in winter.

It only flowers once a year. They’re pretty resilient. I keep mine indoors year round and don’t need to do much to it.

Thank you both. I will continue to be patient.

My understanding was that Kalanchoe pretty much never flower again?
That they needed a period of cold and dark to do so?

I love them and have never bought one on the understanding they were like indoor Chrysanthemums and poinsettia - forced to flower and once flowers are done doesn’t re flower unless great effort is spent with temperature and light?

@MrsJunglelow , I've just seen your reply. I'm disappointed - I'd read that they can flower for ages, and I was wondering what I could do to encourage it.
Sounds like I might as well put it back out in the garden , for all the good it'll do indoors.

Sounds like I might as well put it back out in the garden It would be less trouble and equally effective to put it in the bin. It will not survive a winter outside.

It's not surprising that if we grow a houseplant in unnatural conditions - eg central heating warmth but without the bright sunlight that would normally go with it, evenings with lights on so not the long nights expected, drier atmosphere etc, that they mightn't do as well as in the wild.

I would guess that the Kalanchoe may have been forced into early growth, but that if you keep it somewhere bright indoors and don't over water it, you have a good chance of flowers, but perhaps a bit later than January.