New NoId Cymbidium

[Orquiadicto]

The Cymbidium I got as a Christmas present has lost its flowers and since I hate seeing the dining table empty of flowers, I got me this one. Hope you like it. I must try to find out what I'm doing wrong in their culture because I never get them to rebloom. As soon as the loose their flowers, they go outside in the garden. At least four o five of them have been outside since February-March last year. They get full sun from sunrise until early afternoon or mid afternoon in summer. They have grown nice and they have put out many new growths, but I think neither of them are spikes. Perhaps I'm not regular enough in fertilizing. Any tips will be more than welcome.

[RosieC]

Gorgeous!

They do like enough fertiliser to flower, mine didn't until I put a small amount of slow release fertiliser in the medium (however I've since heard that can damage the roots, so I might just have been lucky with that).

How cool does it get in winter, they like to go cold enough (I aim for 5C, they don't like to freeze). If it's not getting that cold it might cause problems.

[stumac]

Originally Posted by RosieC

Gorgeous!

They do like enough fertiliser to flower, mine didn't until I put a small amount of slow release fertiliser in the medium (however I've since heard that can damage the roots, so I might just have been lucky with that).

How cool does it get in winter, they like to go cold enough (I aim for 5C, they don't like to freeze). If it's not getting that cold it might cause problems.

Have you tried Akernes rain mix works well for me and you can feed with every water

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by stumac

Have you tried Akernes rain mix works well for me and you can feed with every water

Yes I use it, however my cym lives outside and with the wet summers we often get in the UK it get's rained on so much I can't really water it again as it would be always sodden that way. The slow release means it get's fertilised every watering even when it's the heavens watering it rather than me

I actually only started using Rain Mix in my greenhouse after I last re-potted this, with the slow release in the mix I've not wanted to use any more fertiliser. I'm in two minds if I'll put slow release in again next time I repot (which should be soon), but I may well, simply because of the rain that's usual here. I recently ran out of my pot of fertiliser upstairs in the house and switched to rain mix there, when the downstairs pot runs out I'll switch that to rain mix as well, then I'll be using it for everything.

[Orquiadicto]

Temperatures do go down that deep and sometimes even deeper. We get a few nights of frost every winter, but seldom many days in a row (not lower than -3/-5 ºC and not longer than two or three nights in a row).

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely!

Hmm... I use both sustained release fertilizer pellets and some dilute water soluble orchid fertilizer on my Cyms. I did get flowers without much fertilizer tho, but very few.

How much are you watering? The media shouldn't dry out.

Sounds as tho they should be getting plenty of sun ... What does the foliage look like?

[Orquiadicto]

I think the best would be posting a few pictures of them so you can see how they look like, but I can't do that now (I'm in the office). I'm a bit afraid of over wearing, so perhaps I've under watered. Now, I'm watering once every two weeks, but in spring I water once a week and in summer with high temperatures several times a week. I fertilize with high N fertilizer or with seaweed extract (though I'm not quite sure if that's a fertilizer or more some kind of nutritional supplement), but when temperatures started to go down in autumn I fertilized with a high K fertilizer.

[flexdc]

How long have you had them? All of mine skip a year before putting out multiple spikes, and I live in Cymbidium ideal climate.

[Orquiadicto]

The oldest is I think from 2010. Then I have some from 2012 and others from 2013. I've bought them all in bloom (except the oldest one) and none of them has bloomed again.

[flexdc]

Do you give them enough light? May be some pictures indeed