Stanhopea Ronsard

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by nancy

Wowza! What a beauty! Five days sounds like a lot for a stanhopea, too.

Thank you. I remember reading your past threads when I was trying to determine what type of media to use. They were very helpful. I didn't have any horse poo on hand so I've been using doses of milorganite instead.

I counted the 5 days from her first opened bloom until fade. All blooms on both spikes opened up rapidly, within 24 hours or so, and all of them were were withered by day 6. By day 8 they were toast. Her new spike is still developing but it looks smaller than the others.