Bc. Nakornpathome Silver

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Bc. Nakornpathome Silver (Bc. Binosa x B. nodosoa). A large tongue twister of a name for a cute small plant. This is 3/4 B. nodosa and 1/4 C. bicolor.

I got this in fall of 2011 as a medium seedling. Again this is a first bloom that I feel is overdue, and I attribute it to some cultural changes I have made in the past 6 months. I've been lowering the pH of my water and adding a Cal/Mag. supplement. I starting getting black spots on all the new leaves and it produced a number of small sheaths, but never bloomed. In the last few months it produced one spike prior to this one that blasted. Now these 2 buds have bloomed and there is another small spike growing. I just hope I don't blast it by bringing it in from the greenhouse to enjoy it in the house. The last few new growths are much cleaner looking with either no spots or a lot less. So I hope this will really start showing me what it can do. It seems to want to bloom often based on the number of sheaths I have seen.

There is no scent yet, but I only brought it in today and it may be scented tonight.

I find it interesting that one lip is somewhat different than the other. One bloom is about 2 days older than the other, so maybe the lip will 'develop' . Pics in OrchidWiz show different plants that have one lip shape or the other, but not both on one spike!