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What is normal for Zga (Adelaide Meadows x Adelaide Original)
In the subject line, I have provided precisely what is on the tag.
It has three firm green pseudobulbs with plenty of healthy looking leaves, and it has an inflorescence coming out of the largest of the pseudobulbs along with a couple leaves. The inflorscence remains healthy, as do the three flowers, altough I bought it for the fragrance and the fragrance has faded. The leaves that came out with the inflorescence, though, have turned brown. While I bought it in bloom, I can find no trace of a previous bloom, unless it is normal to cut the old inflorescence off allowing a new pseudobulbs to hide whatever is left of the old inflorescence. From what is visible, it seems most likely that this is the first bloom for this plant. It is potted in a 7.5 cm plastic pot in moss. The moss has never dried out, although with my watering habits, it is never sopping wet either. The orientation of the flowers is odd, as if the whole plant had been laying on its side while the first flower formed, and then placed right side up while the second and third formed. The inflorscence itself is as straight as an arrow. I was told to grow it like a dendrobium. But my dends and catts are happy with how I treat them, but although this one is treated the same way, it doesn't look as happy. I have no idea what genus or hybrid Zga is supposed to represent, so I need someone to tell me about the plant and what is normal, especially with respect to flowering, for this plant. Is it possible I have begun killing it off by a mistake in how I treat it (and that in only a couple weeks), or is what I am seeing normal for this plant. At what point should I see a new pseudobulb forming? Thanks, Ted R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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I can't help you with the culture because I kill them too. Around here (N
Calif) they say to grow them like a cymbidium, FWIW Zga is Zygopetalum x Neogardneria It should have a growth habit and inflorescence like a zygopetalum, AFAIK. Sorry not to be able to help with the brown leaves. K Barrett "Ted" wrote in message ups.com... In the subject line, I have provided precisely what is on the tag. It has three firm green pseudobulbs with plenty of healthy looking leaves, and it has an inflorescence coming out of the largest of the pseudobulbs along with a couple leaves. The inflorscence remains healthy, as do the three flowers, altough I bought it for the fragrance and the fragrance has faded. The leaves that came out with the inflorescence, though, have turned brown. While I bought it in bloom, I can find no trace of a previous bloom, unless it is normal to cut the old inflorescence off allowing a new pseudobulbs to hide whatever is left of the old inflorescence. From what is visible, it seems most likely that this is the first bloom for this plant. It is potted in a 7.5 cm plastic pot in moss. The moss has never dried out, although with my watering habits, it is never sopping wet either. The orientation of the flowers is odd, as if the whole plant had been laying on its side while the first flower formed, and then placed right side up while the second and third formed. The inflorscence itself is as straight as an arrow. I was told to grow it like a dendrobium. But my dends and catts are happy with how I treat them, but although this one is treated the same way, it doesn't look as happy. I have no idea what genus or hybrid Zga is supposed to represent, so I need someone to tell me about the plant and what is normal, especially with respect to flowering, for this plant. Is it possible I have begun killing it off by a mistake in how I treat it (and that in only a couple weeks), or is what I am seeing normal for this plant. At what point should I see a new pseudobulb forming? Thanks, Ted R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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Thanks K Barrett,
I got a lot of hits with a search. Lots to go through to find what I need. Thanks again, Ted R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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Well, I attended the COOS show in Cambridge Ontario yesterday. Great
show, and I took some nice pcitures. Since I am presently using google, I don't have access to the abpo, so I'll look into putting them opn my website. I didn't take down the details of the dislays, but maybe I can get that from COOS and some of the growers/societies that put up displays. In almost all cases, the owner of the display is legible, so from that the IDs of the orchids visible should be obtainable from the folk who put up the displays. Lots of awarded plants. And I picked up some vigourous catts, bare root, at a price that I won't care if they end up as compost fodder, so I'll try them in semihydro too. I got plenty of clay pellets to use in semi-hydro, and the first plant on the list to be put in semihydro is this Zygo. cross. The bad news I got yesterday is that what I am seeing is not normal. Instead, it is really bad in that the leaves that died were destined to produce a new pseudobulb. The most likely explanantion appears to be that it didn't like have the base of those leaves in contact with the moss the plant was potted in. The alternate explanation was that I got water trapped in the leaves, but I am careful to apply water only to the surface of the growing medium. Tomorrow, it will be the first plant I work with, and I'll remove all the dea material, soak the clay pellets in water, pot this plant up in the pellets and give it a quarter strength watering with the MSU fertilizer. Hopefully it will send out new roots first, and then one or more of the eyes on the back bulbs will sprout new leaves for new pseudobulbs. Cheers, Ted R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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Ted,
Zygos are notorious for rotting (including in S/H) if the rhizome is planted too deeply, so I'd guess the zygoneria is similar. Keep it no lower than the medium surface or slightly elevated. Soak the LECA at least 24 hours before potting up, or it will take weeks to stabilize its moisture content in the pot. If you have the GreenCare MSU fertilizer, it is designed for use at 125 ppm N at every watering. It does little good to dilute it to 25%, other than starve your plant. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Artwork, Books and Lots of Free Info! "Ted" wrote in message oups.com... Well, I attended the COOS show in Cambridge Ontario yesterday. Great show, and I took some nice pcitures. Since I am presently using google, I don't have access to the abpo, so I'll look into putting them opn my website. I didn't take down the details of the dislays, but maybe I can get that from COOS and some of the growers/societies that put up displays. In almost all cases, the owner of the display is legible, so from that the IDs of the orchids visible should be obtainable from the folk who put up the displays. Lots of awarded plants. And I picked up some vigourous catts, bare root, at a price that I won't care if they end up as compost fodder, so I'll try them in semihydro too. I got plenty of clay pellets to use in semi-hydro, and the first plant on the list to be put in semihydro is this Zygo. cross. The bad news I got yesterday is that what I am seeing is not normal. Instead, it is really bad in that the leaves that died were destined to produce a new pseudobulb. The most likely explanantion appears to be that it didn't like have the base of those leaves in contact with the moss the plant was potted in. The alternate explanation was that I got water trapped in the leaves, but I am careful to apply water only to the surface of the growing medium. Tomorrow, it will be the first plant I work with, and I'll remove all the dea material, soak the clay pellets in water, pot this plant up in the pellets and give it a quarter strength watering with the MSU fertilizer. Hopefully it will send out new roots first, and then one or more of the eyes on the back bulbs will sprout new leaves for new pseudobulbs. Cheers, Ted R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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