Similarly, working with Epidendrum, Pateli et al. (2004) treated the plants with two applications per month of paclobutrazol (5, 10 and 20 mg L-1) and CCC (2000, 4000 and 6000 mg L-1) and observed that the number of shoots was not affected by the treatments. These results conflicts with those obtained by Hojjati et al. (2009), who