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10-02-2008, 03:52 PM
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Cymbid.Kimberley Lady Jasmine
This plant is from a flask I planted out in November 2006 , it has flowered from the first bulb !
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10-03-2008, 01:01 AM
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She's very pretty Des; are the others from this flask throwing blooms on a single growth as well?
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10-03-2008, 03:13 AM
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Adam, 3 out of the 24 in the flask flowered on a single growth, the others all have good strong new growths . I suspect that it might have something to do with my moving the plants at spike / growth initiation time. I wish I new the reason though. I have one of those minds that is always wanting to know "Why"
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10-03-2008, 03:32 AM
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Well that's something I have never seen before. Flowering from the first bulb is very unusual.
Congratulations!
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10-03-2008, 07:38 PM
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Des, Thats very nice. Do you know the parents of the plant? I find a Cym. Kimberly Lady which is (Cym Red Valley x Cym Valley Splash) Maybe its Cym Kimberly Lady 'Jasmine' ? I sometimes have cymbidiums bloom on first bulb, when do I feel like I have keeper.
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10-04-2008, 04:42 AM
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Harry, I have never had much luck with finding plants on the RHS plant finder, I must be doing something wrong. But you are right it is Kimberley Lady 'Jasmine' a hybrid made by Kimberley Orchids.
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10-04-2008, 06:22 AM
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You are very clever. Flower from first bulb is very impressive. Well at least I am impressed. 
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10-04-2008, 01:01 PM
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Des,
If this flask was labeled Cym. Kimberly Lady 'Jasmine' it would be a flask of mericlones and therefore not unusual to have similar blooming on multiple plants. Technically, all the plants' flowers should be the same.
Early blooming on bulbs is one of the many characteristics that some hybridizers are working for and I would say that they were definitely able to accomplish that in this cross, as shown from your results. Perhaps that was one reason to meristem this plant.  |
10-04-2008, 02:35 PM
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Cym Ladye, and here i was thinking it could have flowered early due to the chocolate I feed her . 
But you are right , hybridizers are able to do some almost magical things these days . However I think I prefer to see at least three bulbs before a cymbid flowers as flowering of one bulb does not look right . If I can get the plant to produce three bulbs and a flower spike in two and a half years I would be very happy |
10-04-2008, 02:53 PM
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Des,
That's a very beautiful cymbidium! Congrats to you for getting her to bloom so young. 
Thanks for sharing her with us. |
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