I want to give an update on what happened with this plant.
It never produced any fragrance and the flowers only lasted 10 days.
Yes, I was shocked. This should by all accounts be a fragrant catt and long lasting.
But I did (at least I think it was me) give it a huge outbreak of thrips. They appeared shortly after buying the plant but as you know I already had them on other plants. They just loved the varut. Only non-treated plant about and they just swarmed on it.
The roots pretty much all rotted away while it was flowering.
That was it's big push before it lost all roots. So it's not doing great. It's gotten pretty dehydrated but it's hanging in there.
Luckily I bought 2 varut's. And I didn't put them in the same growing area. I wanted to test different growing conditions. So the other varut luckily didn't have too much of an issue, I think it got thrips once and that was it. The roots are amazing on the other one but it didn't want to flower. It was in the hot grow space.
So at new years I moved it to where the other varut flowered and to my great delight that one is pushing out 3 flowers now.
They should be open end of the month, the roots are in great condition so lets see what potential it really has.
I hope I haven't put anyone off the varut. This can literally happen to any orchid. And it completely explains why the flowers didn't produce a fragrance but fingers crossed things work out better for my second one.
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