Three of my paphs, two complex and one fair-maud type, are spiking in two years and I am just beyond excited!!!!
I was not too fond of these two complex (one green and one large spotted) and was about to toss them thinking I am not able to provide them enough cooling to set buds.
I mean keeping something that does not flower for two years for me? never happened before
Plants grew nicely and I thought I would give them until this winter just in case.
Well, good thing I did because they are coming into bloom apparently without "cooling".
Now I have more confidence in having complex paphs around. I have four or five other complex paphs. Two of them are what I hope to see in bloom again.
The other three, I don't really care, but I would like to see if they would bloom for me.
Now I have one green complex, Stone Lovely, that won't flower for me for over two years. I'm still hanging on to it, and I am surprised I am keeping it for such a long time without seeing any blooms.
The last one, a cross between Maudiae alba (I am being lazy to type in a looooong name) and fairrieanum, is finally spiking again. I was determined to keep this one because I really liked the flower ( I picked one among many of the same cross and all of them looked quite different in shape and color so this one is quite special to me).
It has been fun to see it grow without flowers for two years because it grew so fast, adding five new fans to the single mature growth I bought two years ago. What's even better, I think I see two other fans are about to send up a spike. it could be just my imagination though.
Spiking in Two Years!
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