my oncidium dancing ladies

[Yanglik67]

my oncidium flowered but not as many flowers as i first bought it. Perhaps i did not fertilize it enough.

[lakshmanamoorthy]

cute little blooms!!

[ORCHIDJOE]

These flowers are always very attractive and there are always plenty of them, lovely

[Orquiadicto]

Very lovely. I don't know what I do wrong. Mine keep growing new growths, fatten pseudo-bulbs and instead of putting out a spike, they put out a new growth again. Perhaps not enough light. I don't know.

[Yanglik67]

Very lovely. I don't know what I do wrong. Mine keep growing new growths, fatten pseudo-bulbs and instead of putting out a spike, they put out a new growth again. Perhaps not enough light. I don't know.

Sorry to hear about yours. My this bloom came six months later.

[wonderlen]

my oncidium flowered but not as many flowers as i first bought it. Perhaps i did not fertilize it enough.

Not all Oncidium will gives you tons of flower. It depends on the crosses. Some of the older one that breed for cut flower has long spikes and load of flowers. Most newer hybrids now focus on more compact plant, shorter spikes and less flower, especially the one cross with miniture species.

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Very lovely. I don't know what I do wrong. Mine keep growing new growths, fatten pseudo-bulbs and instead of putting out a spike, they put out a new growth again. Perhaps not enough light. I don't know.

too much nitrogen fertilizer will gives you plants that just keeping on growing instead of producing plant. given your location, i would increase the light and keep the the plant dry between watering. this is true especially once the blub is almost mature, u can keep it dry for 2-3 weeks and see if it initiate the spiking.

[coeruleo]

i don't fertilize oncidiums anymore. all the leaf tips burn when i fertilize, and they bloom just as well without. at most, they get occasional weak worm tea. every few months.

[Orquiadicto]

Not all Oncidium will gives you tons of flower. It depends on the crosses. Some of the older one that breed for cut flower has long spikes and load of flowers. Most newer hybrids now focus on more compact plant, shorter spikes and less flower, especially the one cross with miniture species.

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too much nitrogen fertilizer will gives you plants that just keeping on growing instead of producing plant. given your location, i would increase the light and keep the the plant dry between watering. this is true especially once the blub is almost mature, u can keep it dry for 2-3 weeks and see if it initiate the spiking.

Thanks Wonderlen. I'll do that as soon as this new growth is almost mature.

[kspalding]

Now all you need is its mirror twin. I have actually seen a backward version where the velvet color was where the yellow is and the yellow where the velvet is. Im sure it was hybrid but it was just the coolest to see.

[King Kjeldz]

Not all Oncidium will gives you tons of flower. It depends on the crosses. Some of the older one that breed for cut flower has long spikes and load of flowers. Most newer hybrids now focus on more compact plant, shorter spikes and less flower, especially the one cross with miniture species.

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too much nitrogen fertilizer will gives you plants that just keeping on growing instead of producing plant. given your location, i would increase the light and keep the the plant dry between watering. this is true especially once the blub is almost mature, u can keep it dry for 2-3 weeks and see if it initiate the spiking.

very very true...right now i'm waiting for O.sphacelatum to come into bloom to make some hybrids.....i realised that the old cutflower types are getting scarce...i have Tai x altissimum....sphacelatum x altissimum....Oncidesa Golden Jubilee..O.Colon..etc...ill be using 2 of these to recreate Milton Carpenter's O.Orchid Court Cascade..which is sphacelatum x Colon(sphacelatum x isthmi)