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04-04-2013, 12:31 AM
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Paph. malipoense
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04-04-2013, 12:37 AM
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Nice!
I've been wanting to get one of these, but I read they need a cooling for winter, which I can't really provide.
How do you grow yours?
It looks like it opened up just recently unless that's how yours look when fully open.
Any fragrance yet??
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04-04-2013, 12:44 AM
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It should open a bit more but I took advantage of the good lighting today. They take a long time from sheath to flowering.
I am not sensitive to the fragrance of some fragrant parvis but the society folks says that it is fragrant.
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04-04-2013, 03:15 AM
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I just got one of these a few weeks ago. That spike is tall  How big is the leaf span on yours? |
04-04-2013, 07:33 AM
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That is one looong stem.
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04-04-2013, 07:41 AM
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Wow, what a long stem! Wonderful flower!
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04-04-2013, 08:55 AM
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Very cool!
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04-04-2013, 11:32 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RebeccaBC
I just got one of these a few weeks ago. That spike is tall How big is the leaf span on yours? |
10-12" Leaf span. |
04-04-2013, 12:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCorchidman
Nice!
I've been wanting to get one of these, but I read they need a cooling for winter, which I can't really provide.
How do you grow yours?
It looks like it opened up just recently unless that's how yours look when fully open.
Any fragrance yet??
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I was talking to Sam Tsui from Orchid Inn and he said he treats it kind of like a delenatii temperature wise. Delenatii and maliopense need temperatures that are just a little cooler but not as cool as armeniacum or micranthum. For my delenatiis, I just put on a cool windowsill at night during late winter every night for 1 or 2 months, and that seems to do the trick.
With maliopense, the spike first pops up in the fall and then stops growing, then starts growing again in late winter right? |
04-04-2013, 12:28 PM
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Indeed, I grow them like delenatii. However, I don't give winter rest on my dels. I keep the moist all year long. This one isn't any different. The spike initiates in the fall and continue growing until spring/early summer (sometimes 7 months). It needs that time to grow that relatively long spike. It never stops growing but its relatively slow.
Orchid man, the coolest of my temps is 17c.
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