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questions about response time to cultural stimuli
I remember reading somewhere (maybe even on this group) about how when a new
spike or a new growth forms it is in response to stimuli that happened x weeks or even months before that. I would love to know more about this -- or any other issue related to response time to cultural stimuli. My interest in timing issues today has been prompted by discovering another new growth on my Lc Tokyo Magic 'Hihimanu' x Slc. Fire Fantasy 'Hihimanu', and I wonder, since I have had this orchid for only three months is the fact that it has two new growths more likely a response to the growing conditions of the vendor I got it from or is it more likely a response to its cultural stimuli in the past 3 months or a combination of both? I assume that the two new growth are probably a good sign since it is otherwise a healthy looking plant, so I assume that it is showing it's approval of whatever conditions it either had been or is currently being grown in? Or is this a wrong assumption, is it rather a response to deprivation of some kind or confusion caused by the change in conditions? Or Is it mostly due to genetics? Is this orchid just predisposed to create more than one new growth at a time? Or am I asking the wrong questions? Joanna |
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Joanna, you may want to start by looking at the OrchidSafari Temporary
Archives http://www.geocities.com/brassia.geo/OSTA.html K Barrett ed. J Fortuna wrote: I remember reading somewhere (maybe even on this group) about how when a new spike or a new growth forms it is in response to stimuli that happened x weeks or even months before that. I would love to know more about this -- or any other issue related to response time to cultural stimuli. My interest in timing issues today has been prompted by discovering another new growth on my Lc Tokyo Magic 'Hihimanu' x Slc. Fire Fantasy 'Hihimanu', and I wonder, since I have had this orchid for only three months is the fact that it has two new growths more likely a response to the growing conditions of the vendor I got it from or is it more likely a response to its cultural stimuli in the past 3 months or a combination of both? I assume that the two new growth are probably a good sign since it is otherwise a healthy looking plant, so I assume that it is showing it's approval of whatever conditions it either had been or is currently being grown in? Or is this a wrong assumption, is it rather a response to deprivation of some kind or confusion caused by the change in conditions? Or Is it mostly due to genetics? Is this orchid just predisposed to create more than one new growth at a time? Or am I asking the wrong questions? Joanna |
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