Paph Julius Spike
I dodged a big mistake a couple of weeks ago.
I noticed my Paph Julius was starting to spike about a month ago. Then I was heartbroken to see the bud had blasted (or so I thought). The tip looked brown. Usually I remove blasted paph spikes when I find them but I was busy with other things and figured I'd get to it eventually. Now a month later the spike is about 4 inches tall and what I thought was bud blast was a bud that looked very dark brown but still very much alive. I'm still a few weeks away from seeing this first bloom seedling. Sometimes it's a good thing to be too busy to keep the plants cleaned up. Good Growing, Gene |
That's good information. You may save someone from a mistake some day with that. One of the 2 first bloom Paphs I have in bloom right now had that look. The bud went through a stage when it looked sort of brown. It wasn't so bad that I was tempted to pluck it off, but I was watching and wondering if it was starting to blast. It was OK, of course. Steve Gene Schurg wrote: I dodged a big mistake a couple of weeks ago. I noticed my Paph Julius was starting to spike about a month ago. Then I was heartbroken to see the bud had blasted (or so I thought). The tip looked brown. Usually I remove blasted paph spikes when I find them but I was busy with other things and figured I'd get to it eventually. Now a month later the spike is about 4 inches tall and what I thought was bud blast was a bud that looked very dark brown but still very much alive. I'm still a few weeks away from seeing this first bloom seedling. Sometimes it's a good thing to be too busy to keep the plants cleaned up. Good Growing, Gene |
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