Oncidium sharry baby
 

Hi all

This is my Oncidium sharry baby in bloom. This is the one thats smells like chocolate. Lovely smell that goes by all aroound my house.

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Thanks!

Ohhhhhh!!! Very healthy plant and gorgeous blooms! Love the photos, too!

Pretty! yours looks like Red Fantasy variety.

I can almost smell the wonderful fragrance! I have sharry baby "sweet fragrance" that last flowered in the winter. Its new grow is getting close to throwing a spike. :)

Yummy, I can almost smell it! Love Sharry Baby, it's such a great orchid!

Fabulous! :wtg:

When does the new growth set out a spike? Mine has a new growth that is allmost as big as the old bulb, and it is starting to fatten up. Should it be producing a spike soon? I can't wait to smell its fragrance again.

Sounds like it'll come soon! just wait :)

Beautiful blooms.

These spike on recently matured pbulbs

wow some of the lips have white and some are soild...wonder if its the clone "sweet berry"

I think it's more like velvet maroon or red fantasy.
Sweet berry has very dark color with just hint of red. I'd say mostly dark brownish. also the flower shape is much skinnier with highly twisted petals and sepals. The lip is usually orange or brown but much brighter color than sepals and petals.

hmm - mine does the same - 'Sweet Fragrance' cultivar - had white lips when I got it, but recently has bloomed with mostly the darker lips, I suspect due to spike developing in cool temps

Ahhhh......sherry baby,.....my Nemesis, ....plant that commits suicide everytime

After seeing so many pics of this plant on OB lately, I really want one. The other day I saw some at the garden center, but I had only taken enough cash with me to buy hay for the guinea pig. I had time to go back yesterday, and both were already sold! :(

Beautifully grown plant and lovely bloom. I love these and have 2.

the colour changes are interesting

I have sharry baby 'sweet fragrance' but super gigantic clone. It had a spike that's taller than 4 feet last year. I didnt' measure but it was as tall as I, and I am well over 5 feet. So the spike must have been over 5 feet.
Now that the new growth is almost mature, I am expecting a spike soon. wonder how tall it will be this time. and wonder if there will be a color change.

hehe - yeah mine's a monster too :D

This is how my new growth looks like. I guess it's close to spiking. I can't wait for it to happen.

Not quite, the bulb hasn't formed yet! I recognize that tag, it's from the Dutch grower Cameleon Orchids. It's a good quality commercial grower.

Ow, so many replies! Thanks you all guys!

I need to say that this spike came from an old bulb... last year I got 7 (:bowing) spikes in this plant. This year I got only one, but still awesome!

Imagine the plant of the photo with seven spikes! I got crazy! I must find the pictures to show.

Thanks you all. I will post some news soon...

Some variety throws two spike per pb, so if you have a few year old sharry baby of that clone, then tons of flower show! Mine makes one at a time, but it is huge! so the size makes up for a single spike.

You are right. Sometimes there are two spikes per bulb.

I've been checking out on mine and unless I'm very mistaken it had 4 spikes on the same bulb. Here are some pictures from when I bought it in October 2011 The two spikes that were not in bloom yet, bloomed with less flowers and less time as the two bigger spikes.
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I hope I get at least two spikes from my new growth, but I'll be just as happy when I only get one spike. As long as it spikes. It would be my very first onc rebloom (I'm now experiencing my first miltoniopsis rebloom and my zygo louisendorff is spiking for the first time for me).

Well, I am not an expertise, but I think anything is possible :)

In my experience even bulbs that have only spiked on one side of a bulb will spike from the other side later. I have 3 spikes on one of my SB that are comming out of old bulbs that have already flowered last year. The only thing I have noticed is the thickness of the spikes is thinner. Mine are a good month to month & a half away from flowering.

Wow. They can bloom from old bulbs. That's great news. I hope mine does. It hasn't any new spikes coming though. I'm waiting for the new growth to mature to see if it spikes. I can see the base of the new growth is fattening, but it goes soooo slow (or perhaps I'm too impatient).

Thats a good new for me too. Maybe next year I get more spikes in this one!

Wow! Lots of flowers. Good growing.

Your plant is not Sharry Baby though. It is a different hybrid with SB in the parentage. but 4 spikes on the same bulb is quite something!

The "general" rule for standard large SB is one spike per pb. The shorter varieties almost always double spike.
but individual plants can do their own thing.

By the way, I've never heard of oncidium types flowering from an old pb. That is really something, isn't it? good for you! How old and large is the plant??

Beautiful! I can almost smell it.

Does anybodies SB produce new PB while growing the spike? I currently have one that has about a 16" spike that I just noticed is growing at least 3 new PB with a possible 4th. Just seems strange that its putting out so much energy but its a super healthy, has 6 mature PBs with one almost 4" long, plant unlike my other Onc.

Mine (which is quite large now) always has growths in various stages of development - so yes, it grows while spikes are developing. These are extremely robust growers.

oncidiums are crazy that way.
I thought it was a pattern for them to wait until flowering is finished before resuming growth again, but quite often, these plants do both at the same time. not sure if it's the growing condition, plant habit, or both.

Mine is growing roots on the new SB and two tiny little SB on this same growth. I hope the pseudobulb will form soon. Leaves on this new growth are as big if not bigger than those from the old pseudobulb. This new groth is growing at the rim of the pot so the two new tiny growths it's starting to develop will grow out of the pot if they grow. Should i repot it to the other side of the pot? Here's a picture of it. The new growths are too small to be visible on the picture, but they grow from the base if this growth. It's a bit dark already so perhaps the quality is not too good.
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This is what makes orchids such amazing things. Plants, and to a larger extent anything that lives, has the ability to multitask if the conditions are present for it to do so. Many functions in life, in terms of growing or breeding etc, are started after something triggers it. In the case of our beloved orchids, if the condition exists to cause it to flower, but the condition also exists for it to grow a new bulb or new roots, then it'll do so. These triggers at often chemical in nature, and so long as the plants environment provides the components for it to complete the cycle, it'll do so. You can even argue that even if the components aren't there to complete a cycle, it'll still attempt it. How often have you had a stalled spike, or leaf etc?