Brassavola nodosa

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Bravo ...Connie..... what have you done......suddenly 10 spikes?

I changed fertilizers this past year and I was hitting that area with honey...I think it liked one of them. lol

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Connie, do you keep this outside all year round? what is your winter low temp? wondering if this would do well here in california, my winter lows are roughly mid to low 40's. i've seen people list several brassavolas as cool tolerant, but not this one...? do all your vanda types stay outside in winter?

The lowest temperatures this one gets is around 60, even in winter. It is growing with my vandas and was taking full sun most of the day...it barely hung under the overhang and the sun gets very strong here in the fall. I would say it got watered twice a day during the hottest part of the summer. And as I said in an earlier post, i've not only changed my fertilizer but I was adding honey into my sprays and watering. I have a couple pieces of a brassavola cross I was mixing really strong levels of fertilizer and honey for and I was dumping it on this one once in awhile too. I have optimum sunlight and heat here so I can push the fertilizer a little more than someone growing in a window sill. This summer was sort of a test run on how much they could handle...which is also why some have burns. I need to update the pictures, the flowers are opening very fast.

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I may have counted one more spike than there is...I keep coming up with 9 spikes today. hmm... Anyways here are a few more pics.