Beallara Peggy Ruth Carpenter

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Originally Posted by NatalieS

I guess if you got it from an actual orchid vendor it was at least not 'forced' like the mass-produced ones. And based on what I've seen mine do, that makes sense what you said about dividing it. When it was in the height of its sulk and I was repotting it a lot, I noticed it had pretty poor roots and yet loads of back bulbs. And although the back bulbs were shriveled and miserable looking, they were still green and never dried up or shriveled entirely. Then, when the roots on the new growth took off, all the back bulbs plumped up. I mean, you can see that they've been shriveled before because their surface isn't nice and smooth anymore, but they're really plump and still being actively used by the plant. So, I guess what it lacks in roots it makes up for in storage, and having some of that storage removed upset it.

Maybe the next time it starts to spike, cut the spike and see if it will produce another growth instead. Maybe once it has a good number of bulbs it will start spiking nicely again? Just an idea, I suppose.

Thanks for the tips. It does have a few leafless back bulbs now. It just doesn't seem too eager to grow many new more substantial leafy ones. I should inspect it carefully and see what s going on. Or.... Maybe I need to ignore it again

[NatalieS]

Performance anxiety perhaps. Hah.

I definitely wouldn't let it spike for a while though, 'cause it sounds like it needs to put its energy into growing some bigger bulbs.

[NYCorchidman]

Perhaps more light and lower temperature when spikes develop if you can manage to provide such conditions.

I've never seen such white blossoms on this hybrid, and you also noted that yours had "colors" in the past.

Lightly colored flowers tend to bloom looking washed out when flowered too warm.

[NatalieS]

The base colour on this is always bright white, even when grown outside with cool night temps. The only thing that varies is the number of spots, and yes, it tends to get less spotting when blooming indoors where the night temps are warmer. This cross varies quite a bit, and I think the more purple/pink variety is just more popular. Even when I purchased this it was alongside several others of the same cross whose base colours varied from pink to very dark purple. I went for the white because it looks more like Tahoma Glacier.

[lotis146]

Wow those are gorgeous. They look like a painting! Well done.

[NatalieS]

I thought this wasn't going to bloom for me this year because I had to repot it and this plant haaaaates being repotted. But there they are - and more on the way.

[Tindomul]

Wow, really spectacular!

[Intruder]

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[Intruder]

Well! Very interesting threat. I have also observed that plants baught in garden centers haven a lower vigor then plants baught by nursery. A couple of years ago I visited some dutch orchids orchids producers. There culture method are totally different than ours. The fertilisers are distributed each day weekly (let say 40 ppm nitrogen per day). This quantity make a bunch for a week!The temperature is always superior to 20 °C and the ventilation very high. Artificial lighting start at 6 AM and stop 8 PM during winter. They use also hormones in order to induce the flowering.
When we buy these plants there are on there knee!
Sorry for my poor English it is not my mother language.

[Intruder]

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