1st year with them! cymbidium

[Roberta]

Cymbidium buds can tease you for several months. You have only had the plant for a month? That is not nearly enough time to evaluate anything! I have had the experience, multiple times, where the spike produces buds in November or earlier, then it just sits there. And I'm biting my nails for a February show, wondering if I will have anything open for my display. I walk past the plants chanting "Bloom! Bloom!" (By the way, it doesn't do any good...) They do or they don't. Orchids perversely bloom right after a show or club meeting.

With your new plants, you will learn a lot by just observing. They will do what they will do when they "want" to do it. After you have observed some number of plants through their cycle, you will then know what is and what is not normal. Cymbidum buds sitting there for a long time is normal. Orchids teach patience.