Project 2022 Leptotes species

[Roberta]

Great start! It'll get bigger...and you're the first one with a flower to report! I expect we'll be seeing more soon. My "big" established one just has tiny buds, don't expect flowers for another month or so. So yours is precocious.

[Keysguy]

Good job tmoney!
My plant is doing just fine, just no sign of a spike yet.

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Keysguy

Good job tmoney!
My plant is doing just fine, just no sign of a spike yet.

They really don't have spikes, what you'll see is teensy buds peeking out from between the leaves. There's a short, thin peduncle bearing the bud, just long enough to get the flower beyond the leaves. You'll see the bud before you see where it is coming from.

[tmoney]

Originally Posted by Keysguy

Good job tmoney!
My plant is doing just fine, just no sign of a spike yet.

thanks keysguy! with so many blasted budz this year we are happy to have a new one bloom for us...and actually open, hahahaha

good luck with ya'llz, and we look forward to seeing some bigger ones with nice flushes

[avian]

None of my Leptotes have spiked. Lost half of the Leptotes unicolor but the remaining half is doing OK, has put out new roots and a new growth. I want to get a bicolor and have been searching for a reasonably priced one.

[Roberta]

It is still early for most of the Leptotes species. I see little tiny buds on bicolor and pohlitinocoi, unicolor nothing yet. I don't expect to see flowers on any for at least another month, probably more. The developing buds are teensy at this point, so easy to miss even if they are there. (harryphillipsii/pauloensis bloom about 2 months earlier than the ones we're waiting for now)

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Just took another look. I see a very tiny nubbin on Lpt. unicolor, that will be a bud, possibly see a second one also. So I expect it to be a month or 6 weeks later than Lpt. bicolor. It is barely getting started. The "schedule" likely will be different for people growing indoors, mine are all outside and it has been cooler than normal for weeks.

[WaterWitchin]

I can see at least four, maybe more, blooms on mine... just getting started. Will try to remember to take a picture and have Roberta post it for me. It's a real PITA to photograph... hanging with lots of other stuff in the background right under an LED strip. And of course hanging by a copper wire wound around and around a pipe... Yes, I do regret my laziness in mounting it now.

[avian]

No buds here.
Just ordered a Leptotes bicolor var alba from Tropical Orchid Farm.

[Leafmite]

I see what I think will be new growths but we shall see.

[Roberta]

Looking forward to what shows up in a month or 6 weeks. They can hide those buds until they're pretty far along and then, Surprise!