Surprise Bloom Tour
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2024
- In this video, I share some blooms in my garden, which were a surprise to me because I did not see them coming - I just looked up one day and there they were - maybe, too many orchids??
I show blooms of a Vanda, some Dens, 2 Maikais, Nell Hammer, along with some of my first female Catasetum blooms!!
Wow, some of your seedlings are getting huge! Can’t wait to say that about mine one day lol. Love the spotting on that Maikai! That Nell Hammer is stunning also! That’s a cool Catasetum, I just got into Catasetinae this month actually. I have a Fredclarkeara and today my Clowesetum delivered. Hoping for the best ha
I am growing Catasetums because other people that I know like them. Most of mine are from my daughter. I have my first batch from seed coming out in a few months, and we will see how long those take. I hope that yours' do well!
Love surprise blooms, and it's so nice when the plants are just out doing their thing! I think the catasetum flower may actually be a hermaphrodite - due to the remnants of the pollen trigger. Could be wrong though.
I thought the same thing, but I am not sure either! I can never know what I will get, male or female flowers, from my catasetum... This year and last I had almost all female flowered spikes. The year before that it was just the other way around. No change in care or place...
@@Naturamorpho I guess your catasetum are just really happy these past couple of years 😄 Could also be that the plants got larger to support female flowers? Part of the charm of growing catasetum haha!
@@thegardeningbotanist I have talked with Catasetum growers and they say they cannot predict the flower sex and it changes from year to year. For this plant, I had divisions growing within a few inches of each other - one had male flowers; the other was this plant with (maybe?) female flowers. I will look at the flowers when they open next - I did not look at them that carefully - only know that they were really different from the male flowers that I have seen in the past.
I have seen Catasetums with male and female flowers on the same plant - never both parts on the same flower - but I do not have that much experience with Catasetums.
Love your show! get a little bit dizzy with the shaky camera 😕
@@plantpropagator yeah the "green helmet" structure is very distinct from the flatter lips male flowers have! I love catasetinae, they spare me from having to water them for months haha!
I have the beginnings of my first seed pod on a Phalaenopsis. How, if at all, should I change my plant care while the pod develops. TIA
Congrats on your seed capsule! I usually do not change a thing about how I grow my plants, if they have seed capsules. Thanks for your comment!
Hi John. Do you leave all your orchids outside even if the temperatures go in to the 40’s.
I have lived in Southwest Florida for only 10 years and brought my orchids inside my garage once in that time (but maybe I did not need to). I will think about bringing some in when the temps get into the lower 40s and high 30s. When it got cold before, I wrapped my tree mounted orchids in frost protection blankets - that is the lightweight white cloth that is used specifically for that. I do not move orchids for hurricanes and very rarely for cold.
@ I have lived in Cape Coral for 5 years and have only been growing orchids for 1 year. It makes me nervous with temps in the 50’s but if you say it’s ok then I will try it. Thank you for the response.