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orchids with the most frequent activity
I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones
with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Hi, Joanna,
I know your conditions are mainly low light, but if you can manage a bit more light you may want to try some of the intergenerics. Miltassias are frequent bloomers, easy to grow, and put up with a good amount of abuse. I have them in high light and some in lower light, and they do well in both locations. A bonus is that the flowers last for quite a while. Try these; they are really rewarding! Diana |
Hi Joanna,
I love it when two threads can be tied together. I posted a couple of pictures of a plant to abpo that I think fits the bill for flower activity. I bought the plant as Paph chamberlainianum var. sumatra, but I think Cash would define it as Paph victoria-regina. What ever you call it, a single bloom spike will keep blooming for years. In the plant photo the spike with the bud is the older spike. Each bracket on the spike shows where a flower has been. The older spike has 22 brackets and an active tip. At two months per bloom, this spike has been in continual activity for almost four years now. Get this, a cross made with a flower on the older spike is now coming out of bottles while the spike still blooms on. I grow a couple different species from the subgenus Cochlopetalum and must say that moquettianum, liemianum, and victoria-regina are very similar, but you can tell them apart. Do the differences justify different species? Haha, I'm just a farmer. But what really makes this subgenus so hard is all the different names that are and have been used for registration and on labels. When in doubt just call it a chamberlainianum and 99.5% of the people will not give you a hard time. All that being said, of the three species above, only victoria-regina blooms for over a year on a single spike for me. I do not have a glaucophyllum, but have heard it too has a very long bloom time but has smaller flowers. (yes they look similar to the species above and in fact some people consider mosquettianum a variety glaucophyllum while others consider glaucophyllum a subspecies of victoria-regina). Pat "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Hi Joanna,
I love it when two threads can be tied together. I posted a couple of pictures of a plant to abpo that I think fits the bill for flower activity. I bought the plant as Paph chamberlainianum var. sumatra, but I think Cash would define it as Paph victoria-regina. What ever you call it, a single bloom spike will keep blooming for years. In the plant photo the spike with the bud is the older spike. Each bracket on the spike shows where a flower has been. The older spike has 22 brackets and an active tip. At two months per bloom, this spike has been in continual activity for almost four years now. Get this, a cross made with a flower on the older spike is now coming out of bottles while the spike still blooms on. I grow a couple different species from the subgenus Cochlopetalum and must say that moquettianum, liemianum, and victoria-regina are very similar, but you can tell them apart. Do the differences justify different species? Haha, I'm just a farmer. But what really makes this subgenus so hard is all the different names that are and have been used for registration and on labels. When in doubt just call it a chamberlainianum and 99.5% of the people will not give you a hard time. All that being said, of the three species above, only victoria-regina blooms for over a year on a single spike for me. I do not have a glaucophyllum, but have heard it too has a very long bloom time but has smaller flowers. (yes they look similar to the species above and in fact some people consider mosquettianum a variety glaucophyllum while others consider glaucophyllum a subspecies of victoria-regina). Pat "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Hi Joanna,
I love it when two threads can be tied together. I posted a couple of pictures of a plant to abpo that I think fits the bill for flower activity. I bought the plant as Paph chamberlainianum var. sumatra, but I think Cash would define it as Paph victoria-regina. What ever you call it, a single bloom spike will keep blooming for years. In the plant photo the spike with the bud is the older spike. Each bracket on the spike shows where a flower has been. The older spike has 22 brackets and an active tip. At two months per bloom, this spike has been in continual activity for almost four years now. Get this, a cross made with a flower on the older spike is now coming out of bottles while the spike still blooms on. I grow a couple different species from the subgenus Cochlopetalum and must say that moquettianum, liemianum, and victoria-regina are very similar, but you can tell them apart. Do the differences justify different species? Haha, I'm just a farmer. But what really makes this subgenus so hard is all the different names that are and have been used for registration and on labels. When in doubt just call it a chamberlainianum and 99.5% of the people will not give you a hard time. All that being said, of the three species above, only victoria-regina blooms for over a year on a single spike for me. I do not have a glaucophyllum, but have heard it too has a very long bloom time but has smaller flowers. (yes they look similar to the species above and in fact some people consider mosquettianum a variety glaucophyllum while others consider glaucophyllum a subspecies of victoria-regina). Pat "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Pat,
Thank you! I will definitely look into Paph victoria-regina now that I know how active it is. Joanna "Pat Brennan" wrote in message ... Hi Joanna, I love it when two threads can be tied together. I posted a couple of pictures of a plant to abpo that I think fits the bill for flower activity. I bought the plant as Paph chamberlainianum var. sumatra, but I think Cash would define it as Paph victoria-regina. What ever you call it, a single bloom spike will keep blooming for years. In the plant photo the spike with the bud is the older spike. Each bracket on the spike shows where a flower has been. The older spike has 22 brackets and an active tip. At two months per bloom, this spike has been in continual activity for almost four years now. Get this, a cross made with a flower on the older spike is now coming out of bottles while the spike still blooms on. I grow a couple different species from the subgenus Cochlopetalum and must say that moquettianum, liemianum, and victoria-regina are very similar, but you can tell them apart. Do the differences justify different species? Haha, I'm just a farmer. But what really makes this subgenus so hard is all the different names that are and have been used for registration and on labels. When in doubt just call it a chamberlainianum and 99.5% of the people will not give you a hard time. All that being said, of the three species above, only victoria-regina blooms for over a year on a single spike for me. I do not have a glaucophyllum, but have heard it too has a very long bloom time but has smaller flowers. (yes they look similar to the species above and in fact some people consider mosquettianum a variety glaucophyllum while others consider glaucophyllum a subspecies of victoria-regina). Pat "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Pat,
Thank you! I will definitely look into Paph victoria-regina now that I know how active it is. Joanna "Pat Brennan" wrote in message ... Hi Joanna, I love it when two threads can be tied together. I posted a couple of pictures of a plant to abpo that I think fits the bill for flower activity. I bought the plant as Paph chamberlainianum var. sumatra, but I think Cash would define it as Paph victoria-regina. What ever you call it, a single bloom spike will keep blooming for years. In the plant photo the spike with the bud is the older spike. Each bracket on the spike shows where a flower has been. The older spike has 22 brackets and an active tip. At two months per bloom, this spike has been in continual activity for almost four years now. Get this, a cross made with a flower on the older spike is now coming out of bottles while the spike still blooms on. I grow a couple different species from the subgenus Cochlopetalum and must say that moquettianum, liemianum, and victoria-regina are very similar, but you can tell them apart. Do the differences justify different species? Haha, I'm just a farmer. But what really makes this subgenus so hard is all the different names that are and have been used for registration and on labels. When in doubt just call it a chamberlainianum and 99.5% of the people will not give you a hard time. All that being said, of the three species above, only victoria-regina blooms for over a year on a single spike for me. I do not have a glaucophyllum, but have heard it too has a very long bloom time but has smaller flowers. (yes they look similar to the species above and in fact some people consider mosquettianum a variety glaucophyllum while others consider glaucophyllum a subspecies of victoria-regina). Pat "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Paph. Pinnochio also tends to make lots of sequential flowers -- we have one
now that's on it's 8th on the same spike, with another bud showing. -- Kenni Judd Juno Beach Orchids http://www.jborchids.com "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Paph. Pinnochio also tends to make lots of sequential flowers -- we have one
now that's on it's 8th on the same spike, with another bud showing. -- Kenni Judd Juno Beach Orchids http://www.jborchids.com "J Fortuna" wrote in message news:bLUDd.1044$C.659@trnddc05... I have been thinking that the orchids that I enjoy the most are the ones with the most frequent activities. What I count as activities include spiking, new branch, new bloom, fading bloom, new growth, new leaf, kiekie, new aerial roots, etc. -- so I define activities fairly loosely, if it changes frequently, that's good in my book. I was wondering if anyone could recommend to me additional species or hybrids that I should look at that also exhibit a frequent activity level. The main caveat is that my light is low to medium at best, and I can handle only warm growers that do well in windowsill culture. Among my favorites that have frequent activities that I have thus far: Dtps Talitha's Gem (sequential) Paph Amelia Hart Alexander (sequential) phal equestris (really neat and very active species, sequential, blooms more than once a year, hopefully will kiekie, etc.) paph malipoense (though it is in spike forever, not a week goes by without it changing significantly, it's intriguing) Any additional suggestions will be appreciated, and may go on my wish list. :-) Thanks, Joanna |
Entering this thread late...
I have a Platystele oxyglossa that has been in constant bloom since I bought it last February. It currently has about 14 inflorescences and is showing no signs of letting up. I have a picture at http://www.mxd120.com/mxd120/orchids...glossa-400.jpg It doesn't show the whole plant, though. I think I may enter in the Philly Flower Show this year. I grow mine under lights, and it is often shaded by the bigger plants, so I think it may do well on a windowsill. --Matt |
J Fortuna wrote:
......................... .............................. At this point though I have decided to order a Burr Nelly Isler 'Swiss Beauty' for now, since I have long been eyeing this intergeneric hybrid, and have finally decided to take the plunge and get it. I love the fact that its looks have so much Miltonia in it, since Miltonias are among my favorite orchids, though I have never had one fearing that the temperatures can get too high in our apartment for a Milt (especially when the air conditioning is acting up in the middle of summer, as sometimes happens here). However, this intergeneric hybrid sounds like its more diverse in the kinds of conditions it will tolerate, so I hope it will do well here. Well, we shall see............. Wow, that is a nice looking plant. I just looked it up and found this: http://www.orchidweb.com/images/BNelly6l.jpg I think I'll start my own wish list. Steve |
J Fortuna wrote:
I have never had one fearing that the temperatures can get too high in our apartment for a Milt ... Joanna, are you afraid your Milt would melt??? grin -- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html Reclaim Your Inbox! http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ Rediscover the Web! http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/ They're free! |
"J Fortuna"
At this point though I have decided to order a Burr Nelly Isler 'Swiss Beauty' for now The only thing I notice with mine is the color on the flowers fades quicker than I'd prefer, even with careful shading while in bloom. I have around 30 orchids. No two the same. I forget who sigs with "there's always room for one more orchid..." but I seriously don't have room in my current set up for one more - not even a sickie in a zippy. Basically, they're on a large, low coffee table in front of a southeast double picture window. I keep the humidity at 45-50%. The windows have wooden blinds which can block light as needed. Because they're packed in so tightly they have a good little micro climate going on. A local greenhouse gets orchids from a grower in CA to sell over the holidays. I told him I'd take any orchids he wanted to get rid of since he tosses them after they bloom anyway. :-( He called last week and I picked up 3 Dtps. Taisuco Valentine Vuyl. Linda Isler 'Red' Vul. Melissa Brianne 'Shady Ladys' HCC/AOS As I looked over at the orchid display area, he easily had 20 more assorted orchids with ready to fade blooms. :-o I hope he sells them! Ruth CM |
RPM1 wrote:
"J Fortuna" At this point though I have decided to order a Burr Nelly Isler 'Swiss Beauty' for now The only thing I notice with mine is the color on the flowers fades quicker than I'd prefer, even with careful shading while in bloom. I have around 30 orchids. No two the same. I forget who sigs with "there's always room for one more orchid..." but I seriously don't have room in my current set up for one more - not even a sickie in a zippy. Basically, they're on a large, low coffee table in front of a southeast double picture window. I keep the humidity at 45-50%. The windows have wooden blinds which can block light as needed. Because they're packed in so tightly they have a good little micro climate going on. A local greenhouse gets orchids from a grower in CA to sell over the holidays. I told him I'd take any orchids he wanted to get rid of since he tosses them after they bloom anyway. :-( He called last week and I picked up 3 Dtps. Taisuco Valentine Vuyl. Linda Isler 'Red' Vul. Melissa Brianne 'Shady Ladys' HCC/AOS As I looked over at the orchid display area, he easily had 20 more assorted orchids with ready to fade blooms. :-o I hope he sells them! Ruth CM Sounds like it is time to buy some lights! I would recommend you start with a 400 W metal halide. :-) Steve |
"Steve"
Sounds like it is time to buy some lights! I would recommend you start with a 400 W metal halide. :-) snort! Hoo-boy, that sounds like a slippery slope. ;-) How sick is this? We've been kicking around the idea of putting a fairly substantial addition onto our home. My first thought? Orchid environment placement, natch. ;-) Nothing like plunking down 100+K so ones little, green buddies are happy, huh? LOL Ruth CM |
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