Coelogyne photos
 

Calvin, Thank you for your very nice comments about my Coel. flaccida and Coel. Mem. Walter Micholitz in my photo gallery and avatar. I certainly enjoy them. The flaccida is just starting to bloom this week with three spikes coming and there is the beginning of a flower spike on the Walter Micholitz. Our show is at the end of Feb. so the flaccida will probably be past it's prime and it will be too early for the other one. What poor timing!

I'm slowly discovering this genus, even though I only have one (Coel. nitida) which has yet to bloom for me. But it's pictures like yours that keep tempting me to get more :evil: It is too bad about the timing though! How large do your coelogynes get? And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think both of these are cool growers? Must be nice in Vancouver, where you can have cooler conditions in the summers...here, we get blistering hot summers and frigid winters, and with central heating, I've been having real trouble with some of the cool growers (which is ironic, since I live in such a cold place):_(

I left my nitida (which is a 'tolerant' cool grower, apparently) outside for the autumn so it got 2 months of cool treatment, but then I brought it inside (into my warm house), and it must have gotten confused because to my horror, it started dropping leaves! After a month of doing this, I saw 4 new growths. :shock: Since I was also confused and trying to follow the culture sheets, I withheld water, and the pbulbs nearly all shriveled up! I realize since then that I've been keeping it far too dry so now I'm on a 2week watering cycle. No roots yet, but the growths have slowly lengthened. Hopefully the thing lives - it would be a pity to kill my first plant in this beautiful genus.

:waving: Calvin, I consider my plant room to be intermediate -- I grow phals and paphs right alongside the coelogynes. It can get up to the middle eighties in summer and I try to maintain it at a minimum of 58 deg. on winter nights. Right now I'm watering at least weekly. I'm not familiar with nitada so that's one I'll have to watch for. Keep us posted on how they're doing. :smile:

Great news! My nitida is finally growing new roots! I'm taking this as a signal that it's finally ready to wake up. I'll post back with updates soon! :)