My baby Green Hornet (longfolium x pearcei) is working on its first spike. This is my first Phrag that I've had for about a year (we celebrate our 1 year anniversary this Sunday).
It came to me with two mature growths, one flowered and one unflowered, and two smaller growths. The first thing I did, was to kill the oldest growth, because I couldn't believe that I couldn't water it too much, and kept it too dry. After that, I removed one of its smaller growths, since this one had decided that growing about an inch or two, above the substrate, was a great idea. Mommy begged to differ.
I put a soft, see-through, plastic pot around its base, put some sphagnum in it, watered and sprayed it, and lo and behold! It grew some roots. I cut the growth from the mother plant, put it into its very own little pot, and now, this baby growth (which has a new growth of its own), is about to flower!
Mother Green Hornet though is too busy filling her new pot with roots, to bother about flowering (it has gone from two growths, to soon five in a year...).
Here's the first bud on baby Green Hornet:
Bud watch, Phrag. Green Hornet!
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