No name cymbidium

[Roberta]

3-4 weeks is pretty normal for flowers.. if you got it in bloom, you don't how long the flowers had already been open.

[mkallen81]

ooh thanks so much! been already 3 weeks since i bought her and she is still going strong with most of the blooms, only 2 have fallen! yay!

anyway here are the pics i promised. Sorry it has been so long, i had company.

thanks so much!!!

[Fairorchids]

As posted by others, Cymbidiums can handle temperatures down to about -2C. However, buds cannot, so plant should come inside if the temperature can drop below +1C.

When outdoors, if you harden it in light shade for a week, it can tolerate full sun. However, if you grow it in full sun, you have to water heavily (Cymbidiums do not like going dry) and fertilize with a full strength dose every couple of weeks.

[mkallen81]

oh! thanks so much for the advice! i will definitly do that when she is ready to go out. nice thing is my balcony is south facing so i get really good sun till around 12 or 1pm then it is shaded after that. I think it is going to be perfect for her.

melannie

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by mkallen81

oh! thanks so much for the advice! i will definitly do that when she is ready to go out. nice thing is my balcony is south facing so i get really good sun till around 12 or 1pm then it is shaded after that. I think it is going to be perfect for her.

melannie

Spring will also be a good time to repot into a slightly larger pot (to allow for about 2 years' new growth) The bark (at least at the surface) looks OK but it will be outgrowing its pot very soon.

[mkallen81]

agreed! to me she looks tight in this pot. She still hasn't finished blooming, though she feel off her stand when no one was touching her the other day and a bunch of blooms are damaged but she just keeps holding on. I think she likes her flowers. They are even slightly perfumed!

thanks bunches! Melannie

[mkallen81]

agreed! to me she looks tight in this pot. She still hasn't finished blooming, though she feel off her stand when no one was touching her the other day and a bunch of blooms are damaged but she just keeps holding on. I think she likes her flowers. They are even slightly perfumed!

thanks bunches! Melannie

[Cym Ladye]

The information you have gotten here is basically good. The only two comments I would make are that 1) Virtually all orchids are heterosexual, meaning they can act as both male and female. Hence, referring to them as a she or he is not technically correct. 2) Once a tag is lost, the chances of ever finding the true name is nil. Using "looks like" is doing a real disservice to the viewers of the post who may want to find the same plant. Rather than using NOID, use the Cym. hyb. ign. 'name of your choice' on this and all its future divisions, and enjoy it for what it means to you.

[aliceinwl]

To take things into the weeds, biological sex and gender don’t have to match. When plants are assigned Latin names, even dioecious plants (both sexes co-occurring in the same flower) can be given names that are feminine, masculine, or neuter. The genus name Cymbidium is derived from the Latin word cymba meaning "cup" "bowl" or "boat" since this is a feminine noun, “she” would grammatically correct in a gendered language like Latin. Since the taxonomists arbitrarily label organisms with gendered names, I don’t think it’s a problem if casual growers etc. choose to follow suit and refer to their plants with gendered pronouns.

[Cym Ladye]

How do you explain the fact that the orchid world usually bases its genus names on the ending of the genus. ie "um" denoting the use of a masculine epipithet (cymbidium, paphiopedilum, etc) and an "a" the feminine (cattleya, vanda, etc). Hence, the descriptive modifiers in the Cymbidium alliance will end in 'um' as v album and the cattleya alliance with an 'a' , v alba.

Some hobbyists seem to want to personalize their plants and if they are happy calling them 'he' and 'she', they can call their babies anything they want.