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Originally Posted by alecStewart1
Hmm, good to know. I think for a lot of plants it's just getting used to the laziness of what other people say to grow plants at for light, temps and such.
I've been hearing about all of the FB groups and I would join in a second if I didn't have my skepticism about FB and if joining wouldn't open myself to the headache of extended family on FB. 
The mix I got from MysteryGardenStore looks to be nothing too large. If I really felt like it at the time, I probably could've sorted the clay and bark into small, medium to large pieces and put them in the plastic cymbidium pot I also got from the same Etsy story from large at the bottom to small up top, as I guess that's the more "proper" way of using the medium, but I didn't feel like sorting clay pebbles and bits of wood by hand at the time.
While you're here, do you know if breeding between Jenosa species is common or considered a faux pas in Asian orchid scene?
Also is ensifolium just the better species to breed with non-Jenosa Cymbidiums species compared to sinense and goeringii? I kind of like some of the darker flowered sinense varieties (as well as the variegated ones, obviously), but I'm surprised I haven't seen many hybrids that have any sinense or goeringii parentage. |
There are quite a few hybrids with
Jensoa section in the background, though most of what's available in the states [ie commercially] is with an
ensifolium parent--as Roberta mentioned above, it gives warmth tolerance & lessens the need for day/night temperature differentials to initiate spiking. If you look at the Chinese, South Korean, Taiwanese & Japanese nursery sites, you can find a number of other hybrids that have the other species in their lineage--in addition to warmth tolerance, most of them also potentially reduce the physical size of their progeny, shorten spike length, even up bloom spacing on spikes or introduce fragrance to the mix [almost all of section
Jensoa is fragrant at some point in the day]
Goeringii has been used mostly by the Japanese, so far as I know, specifically by Mukoyama; as it generally greatly reduces plant size and introduces fragrance to the mix--though it also usually brings along its distinctive floral form, which is not always desirable... I'm not sure how variegation works; I'm guessing that as it's mostly unstable to begin with in most cymbidiums, it gets subverted mostly in hybrids--there are a few C. Golden Elf that have marginal or leaf tip variegation, but I've not encountered one [yet] with anything more substantial.
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