Cymbidium Peter Pan - Orchid Board

Leisurely · #1 02-09-2009, 05:33 PM

If you live in a warm climate and have trouble flowering Cymbidiums you should try this one. The color is not going to jump out at you but nice in it's own way. It is considered a miniature but can get pretty large. Grow it with your Cattleyas and it will bloom every year for you in late winter.

nenella · #2 02-09-2009, 06:00 PM

very nice colour ..would match my lounge colours...except being a cymb wouldn't do indoors!

playtime8978 · #3 02-09-2009, 06:15 PM

that is a beautiful colour I love it its so pretty.

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Originally Posted by nenella

very nice colour ..would match my lounge colours...except being a cymb wouldn't do indoors!

Well again I have learnt something without trying ! I didnt know cymbs didnt grow indoors thank you I will try remember that.

Hedge · #4 02-09-2009, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by playtime8978

that is a beautiful colour I love it its so pretty.

Well again I have learnt something without trying ! I didnt know cymbs didnt grow indoors thank you I will try remember that.

Remember you are in Blackpool,unlike nenella who is in south west coastal France, your Cymbidium would need to be frost free in the winter - I keep mine in a cool bedroom. I'd hate to see you invest in a plant and then lose it in weather like we have now

They do benefit from being outside in the summer, and cool nights in autumn help flowers develop.

Happy growing

Heather aka

playtime8978 · #5 02-09-2009, 06:59 PM

thats great to know I didnt realise other than the hardys that I have seen, cymbs werent one of them, that any of them would like it outside. On a hot day in summer would most phals, dendros etc like a bit of fresh air?

camille1585 · #6 02-10-2009, 07:57 AM

Very nice cym, the color is so so nice!

It's possible to grow cyms indoors, as long as you have a way of putting them outside in the warmer months so that they get the day/night temperature difference they need. Mine, in France, lives behind a south facing window part of the year, and then from May to September it is outside in the sun.

Kath · #7 02-10-2009, 08:14 AM

I'm in NW France, and I put cyms outside in the summer and a vanda aswell. The cyms have no spikes this year, but I think I'm lucky to have kept them this far, and the vanda is growing a very healthy new shoot. Perhps it'll grow into a flower... please?

Hedge · #8 02-10-2009, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Kath

I'm in NW France, and I put cyms outside in the summer and a vanda as well. The cyms have no spikes this year, but I think I'm lucky to have kept them this far, and the vanda is growing a very healthy new shoot. Perhps it'll grow into a flower... please?

I don't know about the Vanda, Kath, but I kept my Cym in a cool greenhouse until the spike formed, and watered and fed it a bit less too. Then it came into a bay window where the curtains were drawn in front of it while we enjoyed the flowers in the day.

"On a hot day in summer would most phals, dendros etc like a bit of fresh air? " I don't know enough to answer that properly, but I think you would have to put them out into a shaded area as going from filtered light (through double glazing which cuts quite a lot of UV) to overhead sun would be a shock which may well burn them, plus drop in humidity if it was windy might scorch, too. Experiment if we ever get a hot summer day again

playtime8978 · #9 02-10-2009, 08:42 AM

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Experiment if we ever get a hot summer day again

We can only hope

thank you for your input I hadnt thought about those changes and yes makes perfect sense. I am getting so impatient waiting for my new orchids to arrive bad bad british weather

I am sure I'll get them soon the waiting will only make it more exciting when they arrive

cb977 · #10 02-10-2009, 10:27 AM

What a beauty!