Cymbidium Fever
 

My first two.

Beautiful! Way to grow!

Lovely!

I'm starting to like them as much as my catts.

:)

I have 3 cyms and they all are going to bloom for the 1st time this year, a cym parishii and a cym englands rose (one, a golden elf bloomed over the summer very nicely)...I start to like them if they bloom for me. I have too much that doesnt bloom for me not to like.. Nice flowers :bowing

we dont have many here in texas who grow the cyms so I can find another little small niche to fall in ;)

I like Cyms, but I needed to stick with smaller more compact plants. So I tried some of the Chinese Cyms. They don't require as much light and will bloom even with warmer temps - in other words no cold spell needed to initiate blooming. Many have variegated leaves. I have 2 with yellow variegation and 2 with red variegation (fades to green as the leaves age). Flower are a bit more delicate looking, but with similar substance to the standard Cyms. Plants stay under about 10"

Here is a pic from last year of Cym. ensifolium 'Shi Chang Hong'. It's in spike again and should bloom next spring.

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Beautiful! I love cyms. They are so easy to grow. I have always wanted an orange one but no one sells them here.

Me too. I love Chinese Cymbidium with variegation leaves. I got some from last winter and kill almost all of them :(
Did you get your Chinese Cym from U.S vendor or from Matt?

I got mine from Matt Chin at Ten Shin. He comes to the US often. He'll be our our Show in January in Wayne NJ. So I buy when I see him at a show or other orchid event.

Im not sure where you at bigroth but the cyms I have are all warm growing cyms and dont need cold spell to bloom. They have been outside in the heat all summer long and now spikes!!!
Growing warm cyms might be a little different than growing what looks like to be the cooler growing cyms in your pics. The chinese cyms are very interesting to me and might have a place in my greenhouse in the future. We have a cym farm here in Texas where they grow them for the grocery stores. They arent retail but its a very impressive operation needless to say as they have cyms in all stages of growths and blooms. I just wish they would put the damn plant tags in em!!! :)

I'm in very temperate and sunny CA. I've put them outside and was worried because it gets a bit "chilly" (albeit spring weather by east coast and midwest standards) in the early AM and late at night. I came across some literature saying cyms in general do alright year-round outdoors in CA, but then again, the leaves are awfully thin and reminiscent of my oncidiums and miltonias...So I wonder. They are ginormous though in comparison- if size matters when it comes to the great outdoors.
I've put them in a spot where they get shade for most of the day. Soon enough, I'll be in NYC and then I think the more gigantic of the cyms will need to stay back with family in CA.
I have about 50 plants, mostly mini catts, some medium sized catts, a handful of miltonias, numerous oncidiums, about 6 phals, 10 paphs (many seedlings but one large rothchildianum hydbrid), 1 myrm/schom, 1 den. I manage to hang them from all sorts of places (including a bathroom with skylight) to get them the light they need, but it will be a challenge in NYC due to smaller spaces, smaller windows, and overcast skies. I haven't even begun to think about how to ship. I suspect the phals and paphs will do better, but really worry about the light lovers!!

You can always get some artificial lighting.
Cyms are pretty tough. My neighbour left hers on her back porch all winter, not realizing that you have to bring them inside around the end of October for them to bloom. Her cyms survived just fine. The porch has plastic on the windows and that's all. I was surprised they looked so good after being outside all winter.

heh your moving from orchid heaven to orchid hell :bowing

Ive moved 4 times in 3 years. Im done moving for a very very long time...:goodluck:

here is a tutorial on how to wrap them up..Kawamoto Orchid Nursery Packing - YouTube

Thank you...This is perfect.
Regarding orchid hell, yes, I know, I'm riddled with guilt!! But at least there are times in the year where they might like the extra humidity in NYC, whereas there is far less of it in my part of CA and I'm not a pebbles kinda person for the moment...Some of my orchids feel like they get enough light and not enough moisture. I need a creative indoors apartment appropriate greenhouse, that is vertically inclined! It all started in NYC anyway, where I picked up my first orchid at the NY Botanical Garden show...:evil:

I should leave this cymbidium forum ' cymbidium fever ' is attacking me !
Lovely

Those pure yellow and cream white flowers are beautiful!!!

Lol. It's hit me 2. I have a green one with some red on the lip and a bright yellow one both NOID both huge and both are sitting on my porch happy as larks.

I think if I were you, much as you might love the big Cymbidiums, I would leave them behind in California where they can be grown outdoors in the temperate zones where the lows do get below freezing for more than a few hours or above 100F for any length of time. If you still are hooked on Cyms., there are smaller varieties closer linked to the Asian species which do not take up as much room and lend themselves better to apartment/windowsill growing. :goodluck: