How to grow and bloom mottled leaf paphs...

[camille1585]

That's strange!! You should try PMing Marty about it, perhaps it's something he had disabled during the big upgrades last fall, and it never got enabled again.

[Andre]

I grow paph species and some are very fussy (sangii, violacea). They hate salt and need to be kept moist, but not as much as phrags.

Most species are easy with the above recommendations. Line bred ones are even easier.

Love paphs!


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[The Orchid Boy]

Here are some current pictures of my paphs...

The first is the start of a Paph. delenatii spike.
The second is the same spike 15 days later.
The 3 picture is of the foliage of my Paph. Magical Venus. There needs to be more foliage pictures of orchids so you can know what their leaves look like.
The last picture is of the bloom of the Paph. Magical Venus.

If you have pictures of your mottled leaf paphs (flowers or foliage) then post them! If you don't have pictures then take some!

[The Orchid Boy]

A fellow OB member referred me to this website in another thread:Paphiopedilum Data Sheets I found it very useful. I hope you will too. It tells about ALL the paph species and their primary hybrids. It tells of their natural habitats and such.

[NYCorchidman]

I just found this relatively old thead, but being a paph lover, I would like to write a few words.

I personally think maudiae paphs are the easiest to grow and flower.

I grow lots of them as I love their leaves, flowers, and their willingness to grow and flower, many of them blooming twice or more a year!

I also have Armeni white, a cross of Armeniacum and delenatii, which is also easy to grow. I grow some complex hybrids and lots of other hybrids. I do not grow multiflorals.

My growing locations are (I give the same treatment for all, which probably is not the best for some, but works reasonably well so far):

Light-Most of them are sitting by the sheer curtain protected south window. about 1-2 foot away from the window. Some are even further away. A few are growing under LED setup.

Temperature&Water- Many of the parents involved in maudiae type paphs originate in the jungle floor in tropical Asia. However, my apartment has average home humidity, which can be quite low for these plants. They don't seem to mind though. I make sure the mix do not dry out though, which is important.
In the summer day, temperature can reach up to 100F! Many of my paphs seem to stop or slow growing during these extremely hot season. Winter can be quite cool, usually low 70s during the day but at times lower 60s. Considering these are tropical plants, they would still grow and flower under these cool conditions, which I found strange.
Many of my paphs are in active growth and some are in boom, or ready to bloom at the moment.

Potting Mix- I use three different types. medium bark chips, moss, or paphs mix from repotme.com which has coconut husk chips, rice hulls, hydroton, perlite, charcoal among other things. I think they all work fine, but with straight bark mix, watering is especially important as it dries out fast.
I plant to eventually switch all my paphs to either straight moss or repotme paph mix as these work the best for me.

Fertilzer- I try and fertilize them often with dilute liquid fertilizer. I use a few different brands but haven't found any difference in results I'm getting.

[NYCorchidman]

Here are pictures of maudiae types, Honey, green and white complex hybrids.

[NYCorchidman]

Mostly maudiae, spotted complex, Hsinying Yosemite, Pink Fred, and the last one is Armeni White.

[NYCorchidman]

A mix of different hybrids...

[NYCorchidman]

continues on...

[NYCorchidman]

Mostly green complex hybrids.

Many of these pictures had already been used in my old threads, but I thought I would give them all here again for whoever may find these attractive.