Just saw another one. Ours is blooming too. Nice huge plant you have.
cheers,
BD
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i just bought this, it arrived the very next day, and at the time i did not notice any buds, then today, maybe 4 days later, it is flowering. and the scent is delicious. like 1970's coconut tanning butter. this was formerly Maxillaria tenuifolia.
Just saw another one. Ours is blooming too. Nice huge plant you have.
cheers,
BD
Isn't the scent lovely? Like the pot too.
Wow. thats a quite a specimen. Love the hosting pot. thanks for sharing
isn't the pot great? i have a lot of tribal masks and stuff, so it fits in here. i bought it a long time ago, and have yet to find the perfect plant for it. i wish i could find a way to hang it in something, but it is very heavy clay and has no hanging holes or notches at all to attach anything, just a single drain hole. i would like to place a hanging rat tail cactus (the golden looking one...) in it if i can find a way to hang it. the max will probably end up in a large sized wood basket soon. i am guessing when i repot this it will be tons of small plants shoved into one pot, my old one was the same way when i potted it up, it was many long chains of bulbs, but not all attached at the pot level. this is in a 6" pot now, so i will order an 8" basket with a cocoliner and add some small bark mix and tree fern fibers. i read this one does not do well in moss... if it is several chunks in the pot i am tempted to take a bit out and try it in my tree fern tree.
I miss the coconut smell so nice sadly cant bloom here as the temperature is the main factor here.
still flowering. i'm guessing maybe 20 flowers or so, i kind of lost count. the scent is amazing. the flowers last a week or so each. we've been having nights in the 50f range. warm days 70's mostly. only references i see to getting flowers in mention trying more light. i've heard people have grown them outdoors here, and i plan on trying that, unless we have an unusually cold winter. but i don't see anyone mention temperatures to encourage blooming. mentions of needing 50f and up year round to 'be optimal' per one reference. i have also seen 'optimal' as 45f to 90f but i know it can handle short periods of hotter weather from experience already. it continued to bloom through a short heatwave.
Love it!
I hope mine decides to flower soon.