4 years. That's a long time. lol
Yeah, I bet it suffered a dehydration being in a large mix and not getting watered enough.
These will grow fine in big chunks of bark, but you just have to water it everyday.
Water it well and it should come back and flower sometime. It is alive, so it should bloom when it "recovers" fully.
The named hybrid is very common. I saw tons of them about three four years ago. then I had not seen them since, until just this year!
They are among the easiest to grow.
I had a few because they were like $10 each in bloom. They all opened up with different personalities.
They got too big (specimen size) over the years and I gave them away.
Now I have two in bloom. These are the ones from TJ in California. They were $5.
Then they are back in the flower shops in NYC but with much higher price tag. $40.
not worth it.
As cute as they can be, the average quality of this cross is not very good to pay such amount of money.
but again, you can still get very lucky.
In general, plants from this cross tend to have small plants, which to me is a plus, but then they also come with a small flower, which can be good or bad depending on your taste.
I do not mix in oyster and it is not necessary.
The main idea is that certain orchids (but not the maudiae type paph you have) were found in the wild growing near or on the lime stone rock, thus it was thought that these plants "might" benefit from the added lime stone or oyster shell in the mix.
Another idea is that adding lime may keep the pH from getting too low.
Well, the truth is that many people including myself grow these orchids just fine without adding any oyster or lime stone.
With the use of well-balanced fertilizer, the plants will get enough calcium and magnesium.
Also, unless you do something funny, pH will not be of much concern and if it does plunge down, your plants will definitely show the sings.
Plus, adding oyster chunks will not do anything because it does not dissolve readily at all.
Lime stone is the same, but certain product like garden lime rock (don't know the exact name but) can dissolve too fast releasing too much of it to the mix and only do harm than good.
Some people crush oyster shell into powder. I guess making it into fine powder form will at least increase its accessibility but not sure.
So in one word, it is not needed as long as you use well-balanced fertilizer and the pH is not on the extreme side, and if it is, just repot.
Regarding the name, you read it right.
One thing to add is that there should be another parenthesis right in front of the last X sib.
This is a sib cross of two hybrids.
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