I read your initial post just after Easter when my mom gave me a potted gift rose. I had no idea what to do with it, but I followed your advice to a T, and I was sad to watch all the blooms and buds wilt and die only days after I repotted.
premonition (plural premonitions) 1  A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future. 2  A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Latency is a time interval between the stimulation and response, or, from a more general point of view, a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Latency is physically a consequence of the limited velocity with which any physical interaction can propagate.