Miltassia Royal Robe

[silberhaarig]

Jeron,I have it in a northwest facing window where it gets bright light, but no sun. being a large plant,it needs watering fairly often,and I confess to overlooking it often enough for it to suffer from crinkled leaves. I use distilled water mixed with well water (which is very hard)half and half. It gets dilute fertilizer at 1/4% of the recipe on the box,at every other watering and flowers when it wants. Being in a room by itself,it doesn't get a lot of attention,and then there are blossoms! I think luck enters the picture.

[Grandma M]

Great blooms and fantistic color. Don't you just love the Oncid Alliance hybrids?

I have a Mtssa. Kalaepaa 'Kauai Princess', which I bought it from an OB member, trying to climb out it's pot, or split it. When they do that I'm tempted to divide them to make it more managable but I always end up repotting the whole plant. I haven't the heart to split it up.

Darth Vader 'Dark Sky' is really a challange, so much so that I'm afraid I will need to divide that one......if it ever quits blooming. I'm going to repot part of it into a plastic waste basket. It is in S/H so you can imagine how heavy it has become. I'm not a Spring Chicken any more, but, I like to take them upstairs when they bloom. I'm afraid 'Darth Vader' is going to become a permanent basement resident because of it's size and weight, even if I do split it up.

I grow mine under high light, S/H in either PA or Hydroton, fert 1/4 strength every watering, it is a thirsty rascal.

[silberhaarig]

Jeron,the conditions I give it to flower are to put it in a west facing window that is protected from hot western sun by 20 foot tall evergreen hedge. I water it with 50% distilled and 50% well water (which is very hard),fertilize it every other watering with 1/4 the recommended fertilizer. Then pretty much ignore it until I check it one day for dryness,and voila! There is a bud and a flower hiding in all that foliage.

[silberhaarig]

Jeron,the plant is in a northwest facing window,and a tall evergreen hedge keeps the hot sun off it. I water it when I think of it,and fertilize it every other watering with 1/4 strength Peter's 30-10-10. I didn't even know it had a bloom coming as it was nestled down in the foliage, but when it opened I saw it.


Nancy

[Jeron]

Nancy, thanks for the info...
The plant looks really healthy other than the pleated leaves. It can't be getting that much light in location you describe, this time of year - I see you are further north than me
I tend to 'care' for my plants too much and over water them!
JK

[silberhaarig]

Jeron,the plant is in the only space I had for it. But happily,it likes it there. I don't think the plant itself is any beauty,but the flowers are worth it. It does get a lot of reflection from a couple of feet of snow,and that helps.

Nancy

[Phantasm]

Nice flowers.....It's kind of an odd time for Miltassias to be blooming. Usually they are at the end of the summer.

[Toddybear]

Great colour...somewhat similar to my Marfitch.