Cycnodes Taiwan Gold 'Orange'

[jcec1]

First new blooms of the year. It bloomed much later than my cycnoches which bloomed in September, it has a faint fragrance - much like my cycnoches and may be faint due to lower temperatures and less sunlight. Most of the buds blasted only the terminal ones grew successfully, not sure if it was a little chilly for it.

[rbarata]

Really wonderful flowers.
Please specify your growing conditions.

Thank you

[jcec1]

Originally Posted by rbarata

Really wonderful flowers.
Please specify your growing conditions.

Thank you

Grown in a south facing window, in small bark. Once the growth was a couple of inches I watered heavily, between April and November, watering twice a week, leaving it sitting in about 1cm of water. Fertilizer and seaweed applied once every two weeks. Kept drier from November onwards with just one watering a week. I will stop watering once it has finished flowering. Temperatures are about 23C in summer and 16C in winter.

[isurus79]

You could probably stop watering now. Those leaves look ready to drop.

[jcec1]

And this year, flowering about six weeks earlier, with four spikes on the go at the moment 

[Paphluvr]

What a beauty! Love the color.

[SaraJean]

Beautiful! I killed one of these a couple of years ago and now you’ve reminded me that I need to replace it

[DeaC]

Outstanding!

[fishmom]

Yours is lovely! I have a couple of these now, as the parent plant made two new growths two years ago, but I have never gotten blooms. I'll keep trying, though, it is such a pretty bloom.

[jcec1]

Originally Posted by fishmom

Yours is lovely! I have a couple of these now, as the parent plant made two new growths two years ago, but I have never gotten blooms. I'll keep trying, though, it is such a pretty bloom.

I divided some back bulbs, they didn't produce any blooms in the first year, they now look to be producing a spike now, so slower than the main plant - I think there is still plenty of time for buds.