Coelogyne Unchained Melody possible spike?

[NYCorchidman]

Well, I think you might change your opinion once you smell the flowers of this plant. lol

[RandomGemini]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

Well, I think you might change your opinion once you smell the flowers of this plant. lol

Oh, I hope not. I have a bulbophyllum carunculatum that I just figured out how to make happy. It's growing new roots and I think it's going to give me a new bulb, which should mean I'll get a spike and a bloom sometime around July and it's supposed to smell like a dead body. LOL!

[Bud]

You have several spikes, I am excited for you. This can produce several pendulous flowers on a spike with gorgeous flowers. Make sure not to move this about and let it stay put in its place for the spike to develop or it will just blast and you end up with just a new growth. NYCorchidman is right, there is a pungent ammonia smell that this flower produce but its only for a couple of days, after that its just a beautiful sight. Post pictures of your blooms.

[NYCorchidman]

Dead body, yuck! lol

UM is nothing like dead body, but it is pretty unpleasant to a point where I go out more often when this plant is in bloom.

Let me tell you, I do not like cold weather. lol

I really plan to get rid of it.
It is one of those things that are good in pictures but not something you want around in my opinion.

[RandomGemini]

Oh I hope my bulbo isn't like that. LOL!

I wouldn't mind the dead body smell, as long as it wasn't very strong. In fact, since I'm a writer and most of my orchids are in my office, it might even be inspirational for me. I don't think the ammonia smell would do it though. I would have to let that plant go. The pictures I've seen of the flowers would almost make it worth putting up with the odor... but not if it's very, very strong.

[chidlove]

Originally Posted by RandomGemini

I'm discovering that gross orchid smells don't bother me. I have this oncidium, I figured out what the problem is. When the buds have just opened, it smells sort of like a cat pee/cupcake mixture. After a day or two... it smells like vanilla.

The cat pee smell doesn't bug me because it's not that strong.

Coelogyne though, I've read that their scents are very strong. I'm glad that mine is reported to have no fragrance... there's one I want that's supposed to smell really incredible, I think it's coelogyne cristata, but I haven't found one available for sale. I see lots of pandurata available, and I like it, but I'm not sure I can grow it. Our winters here get pretty cold and I rely heavily on my windows for sunlight for my plants.

I can't wait to see pics of your spike!! Looking forward to it! I really hope it is one!

Thank you... I'm really stoked ! I've got two pics of the emerging spike





The way it is growing out of the sheath, leads me to think its a spike My first rebloom of a coel.

[RandomGemini]

Way to grow! So excited for you!

[NYCorchidman]

That's how mine looks, well, a little more developed and I can now see tiny buds inside the protective layer (sheath?? don't know the correct term)

[chidlove]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

That's how mine looks, well, a little more developed and I can now see tiny buds inside the protective layer (sheath?? don't know the correct term)

I'm so excited for us , mine is doing the same, ...the buds are emerging !

[NYCorchidman]

Yay!!!