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Maxillaria picta
Maxillaria picta
From Brazil / Argentina. Plenty of this species in collections over here - a durable species. Peter -- ) |
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Maxillaria picta
Someone here was saying that this is the only plant they've kept that s/he
didn't buy in flower. And it has never bloomed for him/her either. I had to laugh becasue I did the same thing. Got the plant on the off chance that I could get it to bloom (I'd seen one in a show and loved it) but the best its done for me is one flower in (yikes) nearly a decade. I was about to toss it, and then you've rewhetted my appetite with this picture. Stay of execution: granted. K Barrett "P Max" wrote in message ... Maxillaria picta From Brazil / Argentina. Plenty of this species in collections over here - a durable species. Peter -- ) |
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P Max wrote:
Maxillaria picta From Brazil / Argentina. Plenty of this species in collections over here - a durable species. Peter wow! |
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:10:14 GMT, "P Max"
wrote: Maxillaria picta From Brazil / Argentina. Plenty of this species in collections over here - a durable species. Peter That holds it sepals in exactly the manner that Bulbo grandaflorum does. http://orchidphotography.com/im/bulb005.jpg This is one I pulled via google. Not a great pix. The resemblance just struck me so strongly, I had to comment. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids |
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Maxillaria picta
Kath,
We had one at OrchidMania, a big mounted honker, for years, and was a reliable bloomer. It grew in our "warm" house, with summer nights around 60 and a slightly cooler winter with nights in the upper 50s with occassional dips into the mid-low 50s and one or two nights in the upper 40s. Daytime temps always nice and warm. We broke it up this year to sell, but another huge specimen was donated about a year ago, this one potted, and this year's pseudobulbs are HUGE, so I'm hopeful it will put on a nice show. The fragrance is heavenly. Ron Parsons says the species can be grown outdoors year-round in Berkeley and Oakland and the warmer parts of SF. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "K Barrett" wrote in message . .. Stay of execution: granted. |
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Well, maybe a greater temperature differential is what will kick this one
into blooming. I'd never heard that they could be grown outside. Thanks Eric! K "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Kath, We had one at OrchidMania, a big mounted honker, for years, and was a reliable bloomer. It grew in our "warm" house, with summer nights around 60 and a slightly cooler winter with nights in the upper 50s with occassional dips into the mid-low 50s and one or two nights in the upper 40s. Daytime temps always nice and warm. We broke it up this year to sell, but another huge specimen was donated about a year ago, this one potted, and this year's pseudobulbs are HUGE, so I'm hopeful it will put on a nice show. The fragrance is heavenly. Ron Parsons says the species can be grown outdoors year-round in Berkeley and Oakland and the warmer parts of SF. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "K Barrett" wrote in message . .. Stay of execution: granted. |
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Maxillaria picta
K Barrett wrote:
Well, maybe a greater temperature differential is what will kick this one into blooming. I'd never heard that they could be grown outside. Umm, Kath, I think they grow outside in the first place... Reka(ducking & running) |
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Yeah, but not around here...
K "Reka" wrote in message . .. K Barrett wrote: Well, maybe a greater temperature differential is what will kick this one into blooming. I'd never heard that they could be grown outside. Umm, Kath, I think they grow outside in the first place... Reka(ducking & running) |
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Both guard their inner sanctum well. Sue! Cant get the lens near labellum's!
Peter -- ) "Susan Erickson" wrote in message ... On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:10:14 GMT, "P Max" wrote: Maxillaria picta From Brazil / Argentina. Plenty of this species in collections over here - a durable species. Peter That holds it sepals in exactly the manner that Bulbo grandaflorum does. http://orchidphotography.com/im/bulb005.jpg This is one I pulled via google. Not a great pix. The resemblance just struck me so strongly, I had to comment. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids |
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These are usually grown cool to cold here also Reka. Copes with the
occasional night down to zero degrees. Peter -- ) "Reka" wrote in message . .. K Barrett wrote: Well, maybe a greater temperature differential is what will kick this one into blooming. I'd never heard that they could be grown outside. Umm, Kath, I think they grow outside in the first place... Reka(ducking & running) |
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