Jonno wrote:

"Trish Brown" wrote in message
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Jonno wrote:
For some years I have been trying to get cymbidium orchids to flower.
I have recently moved to a colder area, and hoped the frosty mornings
would help to make these donkey like plants flower.
Nothing I can do will coerce these plants.
If they keep looking like crap, and dont start something this next
season, they will be barbequed en masse.
Does anyone have any hints to get them to show their nice side
please? Thats so I dont show my nasty side....

I had the same trouble with mine until I cut down the Thuja tree that
was shading them. Suddenly, they all went mad and flowered for the
next two springs. Then my horse ate them.

Well I had a mattress once, and my horse ate that too.

LOL! I believe you! It's truly amazing what a horse can ingest with no
apparent ill-effects. Mine (same one that et the orchids) used to love a
chocolate paddle-pop, stick and all.

Serves you right for fattening them up for the horse, who knows a good
feed when he sees one. (Grin!)
It still doesnt solve that problem.
I water them and feed them and talk gently to them and things, but hey
no reponse.
I think they just want to ignore me.
Maybe if I get Mr Abbott over here we can get him to talk to them....

Could be you're feeding them too much? And they really do need a good
bit of sunlight in order to flower. I'd always thought they needed deep
shade, but I was very wrong about that. Hope you get them going - it's
lovely when they do flower! ;-D

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Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia