Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim

[delphiguy]

I got a few cuttings of these last year (12"), at first I was having difficulty with
this as it seems that it cant get enough water. So I potted it with coco chips
and charcoal, and still leaves are getting wrinkly.... so i made some research
and found out that the parents for this hybrid are swamp dwelling, so i though
maybe i should put it in a water tray, and since then i took off. Grows like
weed and its now about 4ft tall. Cant wait for my teres to bloom as well, its
growing in the same pot as this is.

[catttan]

Very nice Miss Joaquim, Randy. Glad you're successful with it. You are correct about one of the parents hookeriana being a swamp plant. How's your teres? I understand it needs cooler conditions than Miss Joaquim.

[delphiguy]

Yes, the teres is in the same pot, its one of the smaller plants in there. I didnt know that
teres needs a cooler conditions.... im still waiting for it to bloom tho.

[walingwaling]

nice randy!
teres grows like weeds here only if you leave it alone, the hotter the better!

[delphiguy]

I noticed that too Ron, during the summer it grew like weed... id say about a few
centimeters a month... now that that its raining and the sky is gloomy it seems to have
slowed in growth as well.

[Halloamey]

Very cool Randy !! I especially liked your potting !

[Molly Taco]

Such a pretty bloom, mine is blooming to but unfortunately it is up about 11 feet. It is growing up my lathe house.

[delphiguy]

Thanks Amy and Cin.... once this gets unmanageably tall, im going to do cuttings and
mount in the same pot/pvc so that it'll form a huge clump overtime.

[catttan]

Such a pretty bloom, mine is blooming to but unfortunately it is up about 11 feet. It is growing up my lathe house.

I think I have mentioned this before. Miss Joaquim likes to clear the top of the support before it blooms, so a stake or support of 3-4 feet would be adequate. it loves full sun and the lath house isn't ideal for it. In the 40s-50s Miss Joaquim was one of the most common garden plant in the then Malaya( now Malaysia ) and Singapore; so much so that Miss Joaquim was synonymous with orchid. By the way the var Douglas is larger and darker than the normal Miss Joaquim but less free flowering.

[delphiguy]

Thanks for the Info Yew....