Donald. Your hybrid is doing exactly what it was bred to do. Super Star is a large standard nobile which requires the chilling & starving routine to bloom fully. Flowers are white with pink flares, if I recall correctly. Ise 'Pearl', on the other hand is a mini plant with white flowers and a nice lime green throat. Ise (pronounced ee say) frequently blooms on mature unbloomed canes whenever temperatures dip from warm to below 60 F degrees.
Super Star x Ise was bred to bloom easily without the sub 50's F temps required by standard nobiles. In MA you easily had outdoor temps below 60 F in recent weeks. That is why your plant has initiated buds. Do not fertilize now or your buds will turn to keikis. Continue to provide water since your flowers will need the moisture. But water carefully, since your plant is less active except for the flowers.
A major Japanese grower also made some of these types of hybrids. He told me that while they bloomed easily, they did pose somewhat of a problem for them as large commercial growers. Because these hybrids bloomed so easily, the grower could not control the blooming as easily. They bloomed too easily and too randomly, without major temperature drops; whereas, the grower preferred to have their plants bloom fully and in synchrony .. which they could accomplish by chilling for 2 weeks at about 45 F degrees.
Blooms too easily ... that turned my head around also.
By the way, quite a few years ago, we registered Super Star x Super Ise with the super imaginative name of Super Ise.
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