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Spikes and new growth are not the same in looks (I'm not sure about their
potentiality but I'd bet they're determined from the start). Spikes start a little higher on the bulb and grow upward while new growth grows out horizontally a ways before sending up leafy new growth. I grow mine in cattleya light in a well drained mix in a wooden basket lightly lined with sphagnum to hold in the mix. Flowers every year and outgrows an 8" basket every 2-3 years. Gary "look for wings" wrote in message ... in article , Dewitt at wrote on 9/6/03 10:24 PM: It's not the easiest plant to bloom. Mine still hasn't. . . I forgot to fertilize it one week-- or maybe it was this sudden cold rain we had one day-- I have a question... when a plant is triggered in to spike-- what is the main sign-- on medusa orchids the spike look *just* like new psudo-bulbs. Is it that a potential new pseudo bulb just turns in to a spike-- or is it a spike from the moment it starts? -Susan -- "How many weeks are in a day? How many years are in a month?" -Pablo Neruda http://futurebird.diaryland.com |
bulbophyllum medusa opening
in article , V_coerulea at
wrote on 9/8/03 8:58 PM: Spikes and new growth are not the same in looks (I'm not sure about their potentiality but I'd bet they're determined from the start). Spikes start a little higher on the bulb and grow upward while new growth grows out horizontally a ways before sending up leafy new growth. Wow. thanks for the response. -- "At what does the watermelon laugh When it is murdered?" -Pablo Neruda http://futurebird.diaryland.com |
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