while the control plants did not reach flowering until day 33.
Thereafter, the rate of flowering was similar in all treatments, but by the end of this study (76 d after last application of SA) the control plants had exposed only eight flowers while the plants treated with SA had produced 10 to 11 flowers, without significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) among treated plants.
Therefore, the application of SA increased the number of flowers per plant by 25 to 37 %,
compared to the control plants. Besides inducing a earlier flowering and a greater number of flowers per plant,
the SA treatments also increased flower size, in particular with the 1.0 µM SA concentration, which produced flowers
17 % longer and 11 % wider (Figure 2).