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04-27-2016, 01:41 PM
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Miltonia flavescens
A while back I pored through OB posts on Miltonias. I came across a number of posts by WhiteRabbit where she speaks of how she cares for her Miltonia flavescens, like
this one.
I know it grows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and friends have told me how hot and cold it gets there. There is a photograph one can find searching of a plant in the crotch of a tree there covered with snow (though it does not get much below freezing and snow is very rare there.) I thought, "I can grow that!", and began looking.
This plant came to me from Hausermann's in mid March of this year. It had three old pseudobulbs, the most recent with a dried inflorescence, and three new growths pushing from that growth.
I was gone for a week at the end of March. On my return I found a well-advanced flower spike from one of the newest growths. It has been in bloom for almost two weeks now. It has a nice floral-spicy fragrance when I poke my nose into the flowers. Maybe I'll get flowers on the other new growths?
In the photo you can see the plant in its 3.25" / 8.25cm square pot on the concrete slab.
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04-27-2016, 09:42 PM
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Sweet!  I noticed on mine that I never got spikes on all the new growths, I don't know if that is typical ? They do get a lot of new growth every year (each of the previous new growths all, without fail, got two new growths). Spikes start on the new growths while they are still developing. |
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04-28-2016, 01:06 AM
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Pretty!
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04-28-2016, 01:58 AM
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Very nice.
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04-28-2016, 12:34 PM
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Very pretty.
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05-15-2016, 09:27 AM
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Good growing! I got a plant abroad several months ago and it begins growing.
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05-15-2016, 10:12 AM
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Beautiful blooms!
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05-15-2016, 10:38 AM
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It seems you can grow Miltonias in the desert. 
Good job! |
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05-15-2016, 05:10 PM
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MiltoniA, not MiltoniOPSIS!
Ha ha, today I'm shopping online for portable swamp coolers for my sunroom. I don't mind me suffering in the heat, but it's different for the orchids!
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11-01-2016, 03:24 PM
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Very cute. Thanks for posting and congrats.
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