Beallara Marfitch 'Howard's Dream' - Orchid Board

Toddybear · #1 02-11-2007, 10:33 PM

Blooming for the second time this past year. This one has 5" flowers and the plant is a real bully!

Tindomul · #2 02-11-2007, 10:52 PM

Wow, its got some nice detail

justatypn · #3 02-11-2007, 11:11 PM

Your's is so lovely..

Mine's on the end of the blooming cycle, it was purchased 2 months ago, what's your secret

for multiple yearly blooms. My first species of this type. Gotta tell Todd

Ross · #4 02-12-2007, 12:03 AM

Awsum flowers. Love the Beallaras.

Toddybear · #5 02-12-2007, 06:59 AM

Cheryl, I am just lucky that my large plant has multiple growths. Each growth blooms at different times so that results in 2-3 blooms per year!

bogdan · #6 02-12-2007, 10:18 AM

Very nice!!

I also have one from last spring and it didn't give me any flowers since then

I keep it in bright light, only in the summer it receives sun. It was repotted (but not divided) last spring, after flowering. It has put 2 growths, they grew the size of the others but it refuzes to bloom!
I don't know what should I do ... the rest of them are flowering (other Oncidium Alliance hybrids) but not this one

Great looking

Toddybear · #7 02-12-2007, 11:55 AM

Mine is in a south window so gets as much sun as I can give it....the Brassia hybrids, at least for me, seem to need more light than the other odont hybrids. They also prefer more heat but goodness knows I am NOT supplying that...the window where the Beallara grows dropped to 12 C (55 F) last night.

Gin · #8 02-12-2007, 04:43 PM

Beautiful blooms ! I am jealous

Gin

bogdan · #9 02-12-2007, 05:41 PM

Thank you for your advices

Good luck!

Barbara · #10 02-12-2007, 06:02 PM

Beautiful. That low temp. might just trigger flowers too. I gonna move mine to the south window, I find that my brassia types are loving it there right now. But I'm a little afraid of all that southly light in the summer, could be too intense. Do you have a picture of the whole bully?