Do Prosthechea cochleata usually rebloom from old bulbs?

[RJSquirrel]

well most Ive heard is no they dont..but look here this one has already bloomed a few spikes and now has 2 more spikes emerging months and months later after this one...

you can see the old spike and 2 nubbins!! has quite a few new bulbs growing also and.....

...yes its a Prosthechea cochleata, formerly known as an Encyclia cochleata or still is to some I dont know...

but its been happy in well you guessed it an RJarWorld

these all old bulbs and now 1 respiking, I know now how they get all them blooms from these little plants..The flowers smell like feeet though, smelly old feet.

[WhiteRabbit]

wow - what a great surprise! This has been on my wish list a while. Saw one at the retail nursery, but just was more than I wanted to spend for a plant of the size it was.

[RJSquirrel]

thanks again

they seem to be a really easy orchid to grow all told. hasnt had any issues at all. It stays soaking wet and pretty warm all the time. I like to go back and look at the brothers and sisters of the plants I get and mine this time did better
one of the few that didnt get outgrown and out bloomed.

[PaphMadMan]

They don't usually rebloom from the same pseudobulb, but I have seen it before. I think it depends on the genetics and vigor of the particular plant. Obviously it is happy with your care.

[Lagoon]

Yeah these guys really do love water, don't they?!
Mine does this too, more blooms from the same bulbs.
Someone of this board said they even throw off keikis - very cool, still waiting on that one though.

[RJSquirrel]

thats really cool they can do this on occasion. I have to check the rest of the bulbs now.....

water indeed ,I keep em so wet they are in moss gravy. The leaves got wrinkly when I backed off the watering. I started to hose them down again and got new roots, growths, and now bud nubbins...A Happy surprise...I kept looking at the new growths and wondering when then I see these..Woot!! Such a silly thing I know, but I spend so much time with my plants it just feels good to get some payback..

[Lagoon]

I didn' think it was silly at all when I noticed mine started doing this ... I was freakin' amazed, haha

Non orchid people don't get but we do!

[Rowangreen]

Hmmm, mines not done a great deal since I got it, so maybe it needs more water! I've been thinking it needs more light: what sort of light do you keep yours at?

[RJSquirrel]

this one grows right outside next to the catts. 50% shaded from sun up in the morning till about 1 pm. Out of burning range then in the afternoons and stays shaded after that. Lots of water and keep it moist. The sun will knock the water down in a few days but I never let it get dry.. Again the bulbs are well above the wet moss. They have to be above it and let the roots be the foundation not the bottom of the bulbs.

.. i hope the flowers are bigger too..these flowers get bigger as the plant gets bigger..thats not the case in some orchids