Cycnoches cooperi
 

Cycnoches cooperi is in flower at the moment. This stubborn plant flowers only with female flowers since I bought it for five years ago …. It ignores completely all my try …. I really do not know what else to do with that monster to get male flowers, my fantasy is simply emptied!!!! :((

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Well the female flower is just stunning anyway.

Bummer about the lack of male flowers. Too bad, because the female flowers look really cool; great form and I like the dark patches in the middle. Maybe pull off a back bulb and grow a new plant from there to get male flowers from the torn off bulb?

I'd be real happy with this. I think its just gorgeous!!
Don't the male flowers come from higher light or was that a drop in tempts??

Gena,
It is really beautiful! As in WOW! :yikes:

The female flowers here are nothing to balk about...at least not in my opinion. :D By the way, are the male flowers supposed to be more beautiful? :dunno:

I like it a lot, Gena. I was hoping mine would bloom this year, but it's a bit small.

Kim

Thanks guys! :)

Gloria, the matter is that light is not ONLY a factor responsible for production of female flowers. Very often it is a combination of different factors.
Last two years I really tried to give this plant much less light than to any other of my Catasetinae and still I never got male flowers on this particular plant. :evil:

Wow Gena that flower is spectacular, at the contrary I do not know what to do to have female flowers in my cycnoches and you are totally right is not only light the factor. Actually they have an internal clock synchronous with the season changes in order to obtain female flowers, ussualy the come out a few months before the dry season starts because so they have the enough time to mature the pod and to release the seeds durind the hotest and dryiest period of the dry season. This and observation I made here with catasetums and cycnoches, they normally display female flowers in autunn and next april they release the seeds just before the wet season. My coopery is going to bloom in a few weeks let´s see what sex will be the flowers.

Bruno! This is your fault too!!!!!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl: :biggrin::D

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Gena please don´t blame me I am not the father (je je je). Wow wich is the pollen parent ???. Cooperi is a good choice to obtain something very interesting, I think that you will have some fun in a few months.