Cycnodes Chocolate and Cherries

[Merlyn]

Starting this thread so you can see what you have to go through with Cycnoches or Cycnodes sometimes when the new growth is up high on the pseudobulb !!! BTW, I used to call these keikis but recently learned that they aren't really. That's because the pbulb has eyes up and down its length so it's actually a new growth no matter where it's located. This pbulb is 11" tip to tip.

Cycnodes Chocolate and Cherries, primary hybrid (Cycnoches chlorochilon X Mormodes sinuata, 1987 JEM)

[isurus79]

Its so frustrating when they do that! I guess you could lay that bulb down flat on the media though.

[Merlyn]

Yeh, I think I will. Haven't seen a Catasetum do that yet only Cycs and Cycds !

[kavanaru]

Catasetum and Clowesias do that as well... quite annoying in my opinión :-)

I would still call it keiki... Keikis grow from eyes on the PBs, which are also located at different points of the PBs, as it is the case in Catasetinae, Dendrobium, some Epidendrum, etc... if there is no "eye" the is no growth...