A great question that led to an awesome and informative "possible prebloom" response ... I'd never heard of prebloom before, or the description of how and when it may happen, so thank you to both of you!
Here is a thread about prebloom, with pictures, from 2011 that you posted, Juli.
The thread "Pre-bloom and Instant Rebloom - with photos" in
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