Local orchid club meeting booty!!!

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Mahon

Great job blooming it! Any pics of your award winning plant?



...I always wonder how they do it The change in temperature, I would think, would make the flowers wilt, droop, sag, or do anything but look good...

spelling is Dracula cordobae...

-Pat

Thanks Pat,
the judges at the meeting gave a talk about some criteria and I learned that there is an ideal flower to leaf/bulbs ratio and all the blooms should look their best
at the same time.

My Cochleanthes only had 1 bloom on it, which was really on it's last legs and died the next day and the other bud on the plant chose not to open until after the meeting of course!

Maybe when it gets bigger it might do that

Here's the link to my blog entry I made on it, which has photos of the first bloom:

Cochleanthes aromatica 'Magnifica' | Orchids Online

And here's a link to a photo of the second bloom just after it opened but still in the opening 'out' stage:

CaromaticaMagnificanewbloomBIG.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

One of the judges was saying that you often people with draculas have a spray bottle at shows and every now then give them a mist..

Thanks for the spelling correction

I wish I had a photo, it was gorgeous It was growing in a net basket in sphag-a medium I hate and couldn't get right [too wet = rot] so I took all my Pleuro. alliance out of it... strangely the Cochleathes is in sphag but doing fine .