So I got this wee little plant almost a year ago. Back then it was still too small to produce blooms. My mother bought one too and her's was large enough to have two blooms on it when she got it. She got the last one with any buds or open blooms, the rest were small still. I was a bit miffed.
Anyhow, what time and some good culture will do! This is it's first bloom ever and I think it did well to produce 4 buds and they all opened nicely and have lasted a long time. These opened about 4 weeks ago. I just got around to doing a proper photo shoot with them.
And it smells great too! It will really need a repoting after the blooms fade. It's still in it's 2" x 2" plastic pot that I got it in. The roots are totally over growing the container and growing down the outside edges. But it's seems happy!
In my orchid enclosure I have the 'Little Stars' sitting right next to my cordata in hopes that it embaresses the cordata into blooming. I've had the cordata for a much longer time and it has never bloomed either. It is mounted on a nice piece of wood and has great root growth all over it's mount with more leaves in total. It's getting the same light (if not better because it's closer to the lamps as the 'Little Stars' but the rate of growth of the leaves is slower on the cordata. They aren't nearly as tall or as wide as the leaves on the Little Stars. Maybe it has to do with it being mounted or maybe it has to do with the two plants being just that much different. I really want to get a nodosa to complete the family set.
Brassavola 'Little Stars'
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