Cycnodes Chocolate and Cherries

[Merlyn]

Starting this thread so you can see what you have to go through with Cycnoches or Cycnodes sometimes when the new growth is up high on the pseudobulb !!! BTW, I used to call these keikis but recently learned that they aren't really. That's because the pbulb has eyes up and down its length so it's actually a new growth no matter where it's located. This pbulb is 11" tip to tip.

Cycnodes Chocolate and Cherries, primary hybrid (Cycnoches chlorochilon X Mormodes sinuata, 1987 JEM)

[isurus79]

Its so frustrating when they do that! I guess you could lay that bulb down flat on the media though.

[Merlyn]

Yeh, I think I will. Haven't seen a Catasetum do that yet only Cycs and Cycds !

[kavanaru]

Catasetum and Clowesias do that as well... quite annoying in my opinión :-)

I would still call it keiki... Keikis grow from eyes on the PBs, which are also located at different points of the PBs, as it is the case in Catasetinae, Dendrobium, some Epidendrum, etc... if there is no "eye" the is no growth...

[Anne McGee]

My Castasetum FDK.After Dark 'SVO Black Pearl i bought from Fred Clarke in Dec. 2011 has these awful spots on the leaves Any ideas what this is? A

[Anne McGee]

Sorry. I don't think my previous picture was posted. A

[RandomGemini]

You might want to post your questions in the pests and diseases forum in a new thread. This is an OLD thread that hasn't been updated in 18 months. So very few people will see it.

[Anne McGee]

Thanks. I am a new member and haven't gotten the hang of this yet.

[euplusia]

The ability to form new growths from eyes on the sides and top of a pseudobulb makes it easier to save the plant when the base is affected by rot (which is not uncommon in Catasetinae).