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brassia
I can't find any info on pruning brassia's. All the flowers have faded-
should I prune back to the highest node, or the lowest, or in between? TIA Erin |
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brassia
Brassias only bloom once per inflorescence and growth. Cut the fading spike
as close to the plant as you can. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "Steve & Erin" wrote in message news8O1c.43813$PR3.858761@attbi_s03... I can't find any info on pruning brassia's. All the flowers have faded- should I prune back to the highest node, or the lowest, or in between? TIA Erin |
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brassia
The inflorescence is the flower-bearing structure. We often refer to the
generically as a "spike," but that is not truly correct. In brassias, for example, it's really a raceme, while it's a panicle on an oncidium... "Spike" is just easier. Check he http://www.firstrays.com/inflorescences.htm In the case of a brassia, each spike grows, forms buds and blooms, but does so only once. When the flowers have faded, it will not bloom again, so you may safely remove it. Likewise, once a pseudobulb - a "growth" - has put up an inflorescence, it will not do so again, but will live on, providing photosynthesis and food generation and storage for the rest of the "colony," those growths connected via the rhizome. As a plant grows new pseudobulbs, they will bloom in turn. In a very strong, healthy plant, each growth may put up two spikes at once, but one is the norm. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "Steve & Erin" wrote in message news:FhZ1c.48111$PR3.980536@attbi_s03... Thank you for your reply. What does it mean: "once per inflorescence and growth"? Erin "Ray" wrote in message ... Brassias only bloom once per inflorescence and growth. Cut the fading spike as close to the plant as you can. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "Steve & Erin" wrote in message news8O1c.43813$PR3.858761@attbi_s03... I can't find any info on pruning brassia's. All the flowers have faded- should I prune back to the highest node, or the lowest, or in between? TIA Erin |
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