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Originally Posted by NYCorchidman
I would love to live in a cooler but not freezing climate like California and grow these outside. sigh..
I can see what you say about the flower presentation of the red one.
but both plants have such clean leaves! 
I see all too many NOID cymbidiums in the winter but almost all have "nasty" leaves and some even have flowers with watery or brown spots. I never buy them.
How often do you divide your cymbidiums? how tall are they? the green one? I'm in love with that plant and its flowers |
Hmm... I haven't looked too closely at Cyms for sale for some time. I got both of these 4 years ago at Costco, and both looked nice at that time. The only Cyms I have bought since that time were a couple from orchid shows. I wonder if the difference is in the climate ?
As for dividing - as I mentioned, I got both of these 4 years ago, both were in Cym pots (6" ?). The reddish one was bigger tho, already filling up that pot. The next year, I potted that one into a 2 gallon pot, which it proceeded to fill quickly. I wasn't planning on dividing it last year, originally, but then I noticed I felt sick with dread just thinking about repotting it at the size it was, so I figured I better divide it. And even with dividing it, I ended up potting this division in a 3 gallon pot (had planned/hoped to put it back into 2 gallons, but that wouldn't leave much room for growth). The green one was still in the 6" (?) Cym pot last year (tho the roots had broken the pot), and I potted it up to a 2 gallon pot last spring.
The other Cym I divided last year was the pale pink one I posted a month or two ago - that one was very crowded in a 2 gallon pot, and like the red one, one division went into a 3 gallon pot, one into a 2 gallon pot, plus another small division into a 1 gallon pot. I don't remember exactly how long I've had that one - a few years longer than the red and green ones. The first couple years I had it, it was neglected for long periods at times, so it didn't grow robustly for a while. And, I took a small division off that one about 4 years ago, for someone who asked.
The red one is about 40" tall. total (including the 3 gallon pot), the green one about 32" (but in the smaller 2 gallon pot).
Photo of green cym with a 1 gallon water jug for size perspective - definitely not a monster Cym. And photo of red cym last year, pre-dividing, crammed into the 2 gallon pot.
Just remembered I had a pic of the green Cym roots/broken pot - tho the roots didn't do all that damage; roots had broken the pot at the bottom, and then when I was unable to get the plant out of the pot, I used that as a starting place to tear/break and cut the pot ... (and looking at that pic - maybe those Cym pots are bigger than 6" ? 8" ?
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Two more No ID Cyms
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