My Intro to Paph World

[GeorgiaVL]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

Pink Fred is considered sequential, not multi.
Sequential paphs will have multiple flowers on a spike, but only one or two will be open at a time.
Multis (like Rothschildianum) will have a few flowers all open at the same time.

Anyways, HCM and two species that make up for that hybrid should be all pretty low maintenance and easy to grow and bloom.

Do you grow any other orchids??

Give it bright light but not direct sun.
Water when the potting mix is dry or approaches dry, and never keep them bone dry too long. That is no no for these plants especially when they are in active growth, in spike or in bloom.
They usually do not last that long in bloom, so you don't want to further shorten up the already short life span of the flower. lol

Temperature: what you feel comfortable is good. avoid any extremes. During winter, you can keep them a bit cooler, but not cold. also, water less during this time, especially if you plan to keep them on the cooler side. otherwise, root rot will set in.

It should flower once a year in the spring into early summer usually.

Good luck!

Is yours fragrant by the way??

My other orchids are mostly Neofinetia, Phals, some Cattleya, and others. Currently, I have this Paph in a terrarium with Exoterra canopy light. The temp in the terrarium hovers at mid to above 70s during the day and low 60s at night. However, in the winter it can go as low as 50s at night because the room is not heated.

Water: I use mostly rain water for my orchids and feed them Ray's Kelpmax, seaweed liquid for plants, urea free fert, and I recently bought some K-lite. I feed my orchids maybe once a month.

Potting media: I am trying to transition my orchids to CHC mixed with charcoal and sponge rocks. I am even experimenting with my Neo (so far the ones that I repotted in CHC are happily growing). I plan on repotting this Paph in CHC as soon as it is finished blooming.

This Paph will be receiving whatever I give my other orchids. Hopefully, it will be happy and thrive for me.

I don't detect any fragrance. Are they suppose to be? I'll try in the morning. The fragrance of most of my orchids are intense before noon :-) just like my roses.

Time to hunt for the real Paph delenatii. I researched it in the Internet and it looks very pretty, I just have to have one. Oh boy, time to take out a second mortgage