Nice!
Between myself and my orchid friends who have cyms, only 1 has bloomed this year.
We think it's just that we never had any cool weather at all until mid Jan which is just too late for them to spike.
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Its been a while since I posted. I just wanted to share some heat tolerant cymbidiums blooming in South Florida Cym Peter Fire Torch, Cym Valerie Absolanova and Cym Nut
Nice!
Between myself and my orchid friends who have cyms, only 1 has bloomed this year.
We think it's just that we never had any cool weather at all until mid Jan which is just too late for them to spike.
Heat tolerant plants are only of academic interest to me, here in England ( having our wettest winter ever, btw... fed up of getting e-mails from both my walking clubs saying “walk cancelled, stream crossing now impassable” or “ ground too flooded” etc...) my orchids were sadly neglected in 2019 : my dear late wife was ill most of the year, and had first call on my time.
But my cymbidiums came through with flying colours , apRt from many spikes being rather deformed because they were never staked. The best, might just do rather well at my two Orchid Society local shows , at the end of this month and early next - cym Dorothy Stockstill, a devonianianum hybrid with pendant dark flowered spikes - eight spikes... all this due to them having been on an automatic watering system for the last two years. Gardena micro-drip, so that they continued to get watered every 3 days, when nothing else did, as long as I topped the feed t@nk occasionally - which I mostly did. I shan’t have much else for the shows I fear, but that should be a good one.
Have been thinking I might set up a purely cymbidium greenhouse now - Joyce would have said “ haven’t you got enough greenhouse space ?” . But she is not here now, and her last words to me were “ don’t grieve, I want you to be happy..” so maybe I willl.
Very nice!
I picked up a really pretty Gramatocymbidium this weekend.
Might make for an interesting warm weather substitute for a straight Cym. if you live in a warm climate.
Those are gorgeous. I'm so jealous.