Paphiopedilum
By Meanie
- 27 Jul, 2010
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First rebloom for me on a Paphiopedilum!
The large sized image is here.......
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This is from indoors Yorkshire - I've had a nasty habit of killing Paphs, but learnt a couple of things.
Really chuffed about this as it's a new flowering stem from one of the other crowns. It suffered a bit from bud blast with the first few buds, but now has another two viable buds as well as this bloom!
27 Jul, 2010
Meanie:
Very beautiful orchids flower!
28 Jul, 2010
Thanks Delonix - best of all it's a sequential bloomer too!
28 Jul, 2010
Meanie:
I've seen many of these bloom here...however, they only bloom in winter.
28 Jul, 2010
I must admit that I was surprised (and chuffed) when I spotted the new flower spike emerging!
28 Jul, 2010
Meanie:
It must be in the perfect spot...also your green-thumb helps also. lol. : > )
28 Jul, 2010
I put it into the conservatory to try to get the old spike to rebloom, but that died. I was just about to put it into the bathroom when I noticed the brand new spike emerging!
28 Jul, 2010
Meanie:
I know many times the old spike will generate new blooms. I've had that happen several times...the reason why I leave the old flower spike for a while.
30 Jul, 2010
Delonix - that is certainly true of the Phalaenopsis. On all my orchids, I never cut the spike until it starts to die. A large number of Paphs however only produce one flower per stem, but these do tend to be truly spectacular blooms. I believe this is one of the reasons for their relative lack of popularity outside of orchid circles. But there are also a lot of sequential flowering Paphs out there too, and this is one of them. My next challenge is to try to get more than one bloom on a stem at the same time!!
31 Jul, 2010
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another stunner, I don't know how you do it.
27 Jul, 2010