Paphiopedilum berenice

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Paphiopedilum berenice - it seems that I did figure out in past year how to grow and bloom at least few Paphs. This one is amazing. The spike has actually 4 buds! The first one opened today!

[MrHappyRotter]

Excellent hybrid. Very colorful for a multifloral. I hope you enjoy, that's something special.

[bellini girl]

Beautiful. How are you growing yours ? Whatever you're doing seems to be working.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by MrHappyRotter

Excellent hybrid. Very colorful for a multifloral. I hope you enjoy, that's something special.

I definitely do, I have never had any Paph blooming in my care till this year, this is second one, and 4 buds, love it!

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Originally Posted by bellini girl

Beautiful. How are you growing yours ? Whatever you're doing seems to be working.

Keeping it moist butt not dump, providing extra seaweed and MagiCal, shade, regular fertilizing! This one is in medium bark, the other one is in leca pebbles, both seems to be working fine for me.

[Bud]

Gorgeous flowers. I love the colors and textures....
You may have discovered by now that if you can grow Phalaenopsis=you can surely grow these kinds of orchids....
and since you managed to bloom miniatures and terrestrials.... this is a piece of cake!

[silken]

Very nice, good growing!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Originally Posted by Bud

Gorgeous flowers. I love the colors and textures....
You may have discovered by now that if you can grow Phalaenopsis=you can surely grow these kinds of orchids....
and since you managed to bloom miniatures and terrestrials.... this is a piece of cake!

Thanks Bud, I guess I was just somehow scared and thinking they are more complicated. But it also took that learning process with watering and judging when orchid needs to be watered, and when it is over. With the practice I can now judge by look and by handling the pot if it needs water or not:-) So I am for sure much better than I was last year:-)

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Originally Posted by silken

Very nice, good growing!

many thanks silken

[Bud]

Right, isn't it? I was scared too....because while looking at a Paphiopedilum plant=it generally looks delicate and even the flowers are daunting; the leaves have a robust thickness but if you look at it under the sun it has a transparency or opaqueness.
I am very grateful to glengary54 for explaining the culture to me and was generous enough to send me by mail two plants from his collection=when I was a newbie in this Board.
The genus name Paphiopedilum was established by Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer in 1886; it is derived from Paphos (a city in Cyprus, a place sacred to Aphrodite. It was said she landed at the site when rose from the sea as her birth.) and Ancient Greek pedilon "slipper". Ironically, no paphiopedilum occurs on Cyprus – at least not as the genus is understood today. But it was long mixed up with its Holarctic relative Cypripedium, which indeed grows in the Mediterranean region. Paphiopedilum was finally decided to be a valid taxon in 1959, but its use has become restricted to eastern Asian species in our time.
Paph, despite several attempts to clone by tissue culture, has never been successfully cloned, for unknown reasons. This means every plant is unique.

[RosieC]

Really Lovely!

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Awesome info Bud, many thanks!

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Originally Posted by RosieC

Really Lovely!

Thank you Rosie, can't wait for all 4 blooms to open together:-)