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Phalenopsis orchid
"Pam Moore" wrote
"Bob Hobden" wrote: "Sacha" wrote I bought one of these some time ago and it has bloomed from around March until a week ago, when the flowers started to wither and drop off. Pretty good value, I'd say. BUT having transferred it to the 'hospital' window in the kitchen, I glanced at it the other day, wondering if the stem was dying back, To my surprise and pleasure, one withered flower was still clinging on but further up exactly the same stem, new buds are forming. I've never seen this happen before on any of my other Phals. Quite normal. It's why you should never cut the flower stem off a Phal unless it goes brown and dead. The show experts use this trait to enable them to produce lots of flowers by changing the temperature at which the plant is kept so extending the flower spike a number of times. You may find the spike branches onto a number of extended spikes before flowering, I think that is when they are at their most beautiful. I have 5 plants. One did just this, made new stems of buds after the previous lot died off. However, the buds have failed to open, having veen there a few months. Then the buds started dropping. Could this have been the very hot weather? They are in the same place where I always keep them. One has had a wonderful spray of flowers, also for a few months. Sometimes the old stems go woody and then I cut them down to the base. Lots of reasons, too high a temperature, lack of water, combination of the two etc. Remember that whilst they have been domesticated of late it's not that many decades ago they were considered difficult plants needing quite specialist care. (£25 each was a normal price in the 1970s!) If the flower spike is still green and healthy then the autumn fall in temperature should initiate more flower buds to form. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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