BC.Maikai 'Mayumi'
 

:hello
8 years ago i got a BC.maikai
It flowered for me 2 Years in a row , then --- nothing.
3 Years past, it turned into a big green Jungle- so i desided to re-pot.1/2 in bark, 1/2 in Coconut chunks.Just in case the medium made a different.
2 more Years of no Flowers,
So this Spring i had a Talk with it-- shape up or you will be shipped out, you are wasting precious Space. They did deside to listen. Both of them :)
I could not wait till they opened to show you Guys ( just in case it desides to bust the Buds) I have a lot of Patience, but ---6 Years ?--- anyway, lucky for me they did listen :) Any body else has that much trouble to get it to flower?

Maybe it was because the plant was getting less light than the two years that it bloomed. . . regardless, congrats on the buds!!!!

Thank you

Congrats! I have a B.C. Maikai 'Spotted Star' that is finally in spike for the first time in about 2 years. I got it from H & R two years ago as a good sized mature plant. At the time it had one sheath with a spike which blasted. Fair enough as it came bare root and all. But then it hasn't bloomed till now. I have about 3 or 4 small spikes with tiny buds. For all the growths there should be more but I'll take those ones :) I don't know if it helped but mine got a ton of sun this summer although it always has had good light even before that.

I'd be interested to know if these need something special to bloom well. I have seen these plants just loaded with blooms.

Thank you.
I dont know if they need anything special to flower more, i got mine under lights plus in an East facing Window getting Sun till 11:30 Am, there been there since i got them and the first 2 Years was fine, dont know what changed .But i am glad i did not give up.
Will post a Picture when they open.And i hope you will too?

For sure I will post mine but mine have a ways to go. Very tiny buds just recently emerged from sheaths. I'll look forward to seeing yours. I can see the spots on your buds already!

Woo hoo! :wtg:

I haven't gone 6 years without blooms on a plant (yet), but just recently found spikes on Cym. dayanum I've had for 4 years with no blooms. A couple others I've had about as, or nearly as long still haven't ever bloomed :p.

Looks like your patience will be well rewarded! Hope the next interval between blooms is much shorter ;)

I have some too that never bloomed yet, but i did not have them for that long 2 maybe 3 Years.And i also hope the next Flowers dont take an other 6 Years. Will have to see what happens, just happy i get some flowers this Time :)

Lookin good! Can't wait to see them! :D

You might want to consider the divide and mount method. My Maikai 'Mayumi' didn't bloom for several years until I made divisions and mounted them. It took a few years for the divisions to acclimate but now they bloom every November. They are growing in a high light area in my garden.

More sun!
 

Bc. Maikai wants as much sun as possible. I grow it outside the whole year.

Fer

orchids4ever:
I really love the story and the pics; I have a similar issue with a cat. hybrid and am looking forward to more input. And everyone that responded had great input and pics also. I would love to call one of these beauts mine one of these days! The BrassoCatts are some of my favorites. (And to other members - his personal album is loaded with great pics!)
With that said, I hate to be the party pooper, but this post would be more appropriate placed in another category such as the Cattleya tribe or perhaps the Advanced Growing category; the introduction area is usually reserved just for that - introductions. But honestly, you will probably get more answers to your questions of frequency of blooms in one of those categories. And you should definitely post the blooms in the Blooming Section as you will have a lot of interest there.
I have posted incorrectly in the past, but just wanted to 'jog' you into correct placement of your posts as you will get more specific answers in the correct categories - not that the info you got was not great!
Again, hate to be the spoil-sport, but it does benefit everyone, but you the most, to post in correct categories.
Steve:waving

Hi Picotee
I only got my Kitchen to grow Orchids ( i live in a Condo)and i can not get the Humitity high enough to grow mounted Orchids, i tried, but they all dry up and die on me.You are very lucky to grow yours outside, but up here in BC we got just to much rain and in Winter it is too cold,so this is not an option for me.But Thank you for your Advise-- - but i would only kill them if i tried.

Hi Fernando
beautiful Flowers you have.
You are even more luckier then Pictee-- Spain-- warm - Sunshine-- i envy you
We mostly got rain - rain - rain :(

Hi Stray59
No your'e not a party-pooper. I am pretty new to this Board and when i posted this i thought for being new this would be the Place since i am not really a Advanced grower, i am just lucky with some of them.
But i guess i was wrong.I am not very good at this Computer Stuff so i would not even begin to know how to move it now to a different Place. I have been trying to post some of my Pictures to the Gallery but all i get is Page not available, i followed the Direction-- but nothing is working. :( Thank you so much for liking my Pictures in my Album-- And i hope yours will give you some Flowers soon.

Stray59
one more thing-- if the maikai would not made buds this Time i would have tried this--- Jason from orchidsLtd. told me . I dont know how you grow your Orchids- but i grow under Lights. my C.jenmanii did not flower for 3 years (it was in Bark)and since my Lights are heating the Shelf above ( no need for a heat mat ) Jason told me to plant them in Spag--- and they have been Flowering every Years since.
If you are growing under Lights maybe try that. just a thought.

My Maikai Mayumi is approximately 10 years old and it is a consistent and reliable bloomer. It blooms every year without fail. The first photo is from October of this year when it had about 35 blooms and the second photo is from this moring, when I found 3 more new blooms that had just opened up. This is one of my very favorite plants.
Chiqui

Orchid4ever:
Don't worry about the thread placement - seems like a lot of others are enjoying your Pics. You may want to just copy and paste your initial post to some of the other categories, just to get more input. I appreciate your suggestion on a more moist medium. I know I am maintaining too dry of pot as I used to use bark chips on everything, but I used to live in a more humid home. This place sucks up moisture like sponge! It is a full time job just keeping the pebble trays full of water. My plants are constantly needing water. I will be undertaking a very large repotting soon - in excess of 100 need to be moved to a better medium.
Again - don't worry about the thread - a moderator may move it for you, but I don't think it is a big deal. There is a way you can do it yourself, but I haven't tried that yet. And besides, it is bringing out some phenom pics from others!
By the way - you sound like someone that could maneuver the Advanced category very well! Just jump in there.
Steve :groupwave::groupwave:

If you can't place the plant outside - do you have a sunny window? It works!
Chiqui, I wonder if your gorgeous plant really is Bc. Maikai. Leaves and flowers look like a Maikai -Hybrid to me. Just stunning and beautiful!
Regards

Fer

OH my what a beauty
I am really tempted to move. Florida seems like the Place to be if you grow Orchids.

Fernando, i only have a 6x8 Foot Window - facing East- to grow my Orchids- all the rest are to the North.
in the Summer [B]IF the Sun is out, i get Sun from early Morning till about 11:30. But i still got the Lights going for 12-14 Hours a Day.But the real thing is always better.But this is the best i can do with what i have.

Wow, six years is a long time... but then I have some orchids like that which I've still not got to bloom :roll:

Don't worry about the thread placement, but I have moved it to Beginner Discussions. I'm not sure where I would put this one, but that section is a good general place to put anything you can't place. We don't worry much if you post in the wrong place here, but moderators might try and help out by moving it if it would be better in a different place.

Thank you RosieC :)

I have never had a problem with this orchid. It grows in my conservatory (16 Celsius Min) and blooms each year. It is on a NW facing windowsill and is very happy. Incidentally - I am in the UK.

B....C.... That should be a clue as to how much light it takes to bloom them. They are akin to rock laelias. And when you divide them it takes a couple seasons to bloom them unless they are in near perfect conditions.

Congrats!

Wow~ 6 years!

My rule is one year. but then I have some paphs that took two years to rebloom, so now I keep certain things for two years before I make a final decision. lol

They need as much sun as possible to bloom well.
Brassavola hybrids that I have seen, that are big sized plants with massive bloom, were all getting full sun all day outside in Hawaii.

I have one BC, which gets about half day sun. The flowering is never as good as when I first bought it.
The growers always tell me they need full sun all day to flower well, and I just can't provide that.