Cymbidium lowianum - Orchid Board

joule · #1 11-22-2012, 12:15 PM

C. lowianum is my loyal bloomer. This one has bloomed every spring or summer many years.
My other Cymbidium lowianum starts blooming soon, it is a form "concolor".
I think it takes about a month to wait for blooming of this one.

ronaldhanko · #2 11-22-2012, 02:39 PM

Spectacular!

WhiteRabbit · #3 11-22-2012, 11:49 PM

Gorgeous!

pheli · #4 11-23-2012, 06:03 AM

What a beauty!

tuvoc · #5 11-23-2012, 09:48 AM

Very nice. Well done.

Kim

smweaver · #6 11-23-2012, 10:38 AM

Really quite beautiful. The lip is especially attractive. Does this species always flower this early for you? I thought (and I could be mistaken) that Cym. lowianum is normally a late-spring bloomer. Perhaps there's so variability in its bloom season. Congratulations on your wonderful flowers.

Cym Ladye · #7 11-23-2012, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by smweaver

Really quite beautiful. The lip is especially attractive. Does this species always flower this early for you? I thought (and I could be mistaken) that Cym. lowianum is normally a late-spring bloomer. Perhaps there's so variability in its bloom season. Congratulations on your wonderful flowers.

A true lowianum is definitely a late season bloomer but it depends on the hemisphere. A plant blooming now in the Southern Hemisphere would signal the end of the blooming season there.

Cym Ladye

joule · #8 11-23-2012, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Cym Ladye

A true lowianum is definitely a late season bloomer but it depends on the hemisphere. A plant blooming now in the Southern Hemisphere would signal the end of the blooming season there.

Cym Ladye

This part of world where i live, C. lowianum flowers from april to june, normally.
My concolor starts flowering "wrong time = winter " because i bought it last spring from Holland and it has been in greenhouse condition there and has a new growth almost mature when i got it.

In the fall i exposed it to colder weather and after that i took it inside. Soon after that i noticed a flowerspike is coming.

At the moment i grow my C. lowianum concolor-form under 500 watt led-light and i am waiting for flowers ...

Cym Ladye · #9 11-24-2012, 07:06 PM

April to June is about right. If grown in greenhouse conditions, it will more likely be more toward April. If grown outdoors, more likely toward June.

CL

james mickelso · #10 12-25-2012, 11:33 AM

Mine blooms reliably in Feb and was the first to bloom. It was my very first orchid. But one problem with it is that the buds blast regularly. I have to keep it very dry and in an exposed location to get the spikes to bloom out fully. It is also fragrant. Pictures when it is in bloom. I promise.