Help!

[ronaldhanko]

I am not a Neofinetia expert - have about six of them and need help with one. It's a yellow form, a very healthy plant with good growth and roots all over, but it put up four spikes and all the buds blasted. It's in with my cool growing stuff, under quite high light (T5HO). Water and a tiny bit of fertilizer as normal. Any ideas as to the problem? I've not had this happen with the white or green forms. Is it too cool, did I give it too much water, is even a bit of fertilizer too much when it's in spike?

Here, by the way, is a photo of "Gojyo Fukurin' and a link to a blog post with more pictures of it, but it bloomed at a different time of the year and that's what makes me wonder whether temp was the problem with the yellow form. The variegated form bloomed the end of August.



Orchids in Bloom: neofinetia falcata