c Walkeriana - Growths with no leaves or flowers

[nhbeek]

This is an annoying thing that happens with walkeriana if you mess up the photo period. If it gets bad enough you can exhaust all of its meristems

[Clawhammer]

Originally Posted by nhbeek

This is an annoying thing that happens with walkeriana if you mess up the photo period. If it gets bad enough you can exhaust all of its meristems

Thanks for your thoughts.. Can you elaborate on how the photoperiod can get messed up? Night time is total darkness. Lights are on for 14 hours at the summer solstice and 11 hours at the winter solstice. I steadily adjust the lights by 45 min a month. Also, I have 4 other walkeriana in the same room and countless hybrids that don't do this.

[thefish1337]

Originally Posted by Clawhammer

Thanks for your thoughts.. Can you elaborate on how the photoperiod can get messed up? Night time is total darkness. Lights are on for 14 hours at the summer solstice and 11 hours at the winter solstice. I steadily adjust the lights by 45 min a month. Also, I have 4 other walkeriana in the same room and countless hybrids that don't do this.

One of my walkeriana tried to bloom 6 times this year and all aborted. Sometimes I think that US walkeriana lines have some fundamentally bad genetics from line breeding. Most of the modern walkeriana I have from Brazil exhibit much better growth patterns more vigor and tend to behave more as expected.