Non stop Stanhopea

[isurus79]

Great look flowers! Where do you grow? It looks like all your guys are outside. I also see what looks like another Stanhopinae in the background. Another Stan or Gongora?

[bcub30]

Durring the summer i grow outside under the Crimson King Maple. Luckily durring the colder months one of my professors alows me to overwinter in one of the greenhouses on campus! I have had no problems with the plants being moved or tampered with as there are several other orchid people in the hort program.

The plant in the background is a Gongora truncata that put out 8 spikes last month! Alas I neglected to take pics and of course the blooms are now all past.

The candida likes alot of water and i tend to fertilize weekly, weakly. Darned if the thing isnt blooming right now again and putting out growths at the same time as well. It gets bright diffused light and no direct sunlight at any time. This one likes it bright, wet and steamy!

Scott

[unhappykat]

Beautiful, I havent tried a Sanhopea, I thought about it but could never find any seedlings or small plants, I can only find large specimen plants. Ive heard some of these are stink bombs, is this species one of them.

[ericst11]

yes i have had the same affect on a candida for about 6 months then it seems like it goes dormat for a while no growth then about 6 months it shoots up a leaf and its off again spiking but your is a lot bigger then mine thats a bute.

[bcub30]

Candida does have a fragrance. I liken it to wintergreen but ive heard others say its like mothballs! The fragrance can get overpowering in a small enclosed area , but otherwise its one that you catch wiffs of every now again and it gets ya searching through the greenhouse!

Scott

[Manfred Busche]

Hello there.
Subject: "...a little concerned".
I once owned two Specimen Plants of each, Phalaenopsis bellina and Psychopsis papilio,
which both flowered continously ...like your Stanhopea candida is doing... for approx. 2 years;
but then they insisted to die, all my rescue measures failed.
If such exxagerated flowering would occur again amongst any of my plants, I would perform #selfing#
well before the tipping point, to satisfy the plant's apparently overwhelming desire to get one of
it's flowers pollinated by a bee...
Process of selfing a Stanhopea: see Barney Greer.
Regards,
Manfred.