Paphiopedilum Maudiae - my very first Paph rebloom

[thom]

Duane, you're the best! thanks for the hot leads and info .....!

thom

[goofy]

great job, Rosie!
I need to get the tricks from you to get mine to rebloom. I have the exact same Maudiae. It is healthy and all, but I can't find any bud on the new fan yet. I am so anxious, checking every day . How long does it take for a new fan to mature to have bud? One year, two years?
Thuy

[Hedge]

Originally Posted by goofy

great job, Rosie!
I need to get the tricks from you to get mine to rebloom. I have the exact same Maudiae. It is healthy and all, but I can't find any bud on the new fan yet. I am so anxious, checking every day . How long does it take for a new fan to mature to have bud? One year, two years?
Thuy

Hi, in my experience of this Maudiae type, a fan can mature to bloom in a year, but in other types of Paph it can take longer or less.

Hope that helps

[goofy]

Thanks, Hedge.
That would be around Thanksgiving time for the new fan. I will give it a break now

Thuy

[Hedge]

I hope you are successful

Thanksgiving sounds about right, I bought both of mine in bloom in early December and they've both flowered every year since (twice now).

[RosieC]

This was arround a year as well. It flowered last in August 2009 and at that time had a very small fan starting.

Having said that though there were two plants in the pot when I bought it and both were in flower. This one has re-bloomed in a year but the other is still growing it's fan with no sign of a bud.

I think the difference was that while both suffered a little from root rot, the other one suffered more than this one and I think that knocked it back a lot.

[RosieC]

As Hedge has said, other Paphs can take different times. I have a buldog type which was arround 2 years growing fans before finally I have a bud now. Even then that bud is growing slowly and it must be over 2 months since I noticed the first 'thickening' at the base of a fan and it's now only just got to the stage of the bud showing signs of the stem emerging to push it up above the fan.

[Hedge]

Good to know it can be as long as that! I have a Paph armeniacum x jackii that I bought in bloom June last year - it is very slowly growing a new fan - I was beginning to think I am losing it but it just seems its slow

[RosieC]

I really thought mine would never bloom and wondered what I was doing wrong... then first this one, then the bulldog developed buds. Arround the time I noticed this one I felt the base of the fans on the others and was amazed to notice that the bulldog had two fans with a fat feeling at the base of the fan. The bulldog is growing them much slower than this one, and the buds are still hardly showing but are definately growing, as I said above it was about two years growing the fan as it was last in bloom in Aug 09

[goofy]

I guess I have to be patient then. Staring at it all day wouldn't help?
These things seem to grow very slowly. On the other hand, once you have a flower, it lasts forever...
When I bought mine in bloom, it lasted for about 4 months!

Thuy