Cymbidium lowianum

[Cym Ladye]

Originally Posted by Brotherly Monkey

On their website, Andy's Orchids has them listed as heat tolerant, as well

Andy's Orchids - Orchid Species - Cymbidium - lowianum

We are back to the definition of "heat tolerant". There also may be strains of lowianum that will bloom in warmer climates. It would be of interest what clone/s Orchids3 has that do well for him.

CL

[Bobfharris]

I second CymLadye's comments. Orchid3, which lowianum do you have?

[rodrigo]

I'm going to make a statement here, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

As a general rule:
"Cymbidiums grow better in warmer climates, but bloom better in colder climates"

?

Rodrigo

[Bobfharris]

I wouldn't be that black or white. Some cyms grow better in warmer environs and others like it cooler, and that seems to be true for both the warm tolerant and the cool growing ones. The Heat Tolerant need warm and do not like it cooler and will not bloom well if too cool.

Many of them however when young grow faster if kept moderately warm, not too warm and not too hot.
What is most apparent is that they grow best with even temperatures especially between 60-75 but prefer temperature fluctuations for flowering.

[orchids3]

Sorry I cant give you a clonal name. Thinking back to where the plant came from - we used to have backbulb swap meets when I belonged to many orchid societies in the Los Angeles area. Probably from there or once when I traveled back to Calif and visited SBOE. There were hundreds of pots filled with backbulbs. SBOE was in some kind of transition and the Bulbs were not going to be used for anything. I took as many as I could put in a large suitcase and Mrs Grip gave me a good price. That accounts for a lot of my early and growing collection. I did wrap each bulb with a piece of paper with the name on it.
One I am sure is eberno-lowianium and another is a lowianum - both are among my favorites, easy to grow and reliable bloomers. Another favorite of mine is Jungfrau which grows and blooms beautifully here in Florida.
It was marked Jungfrau 'Snow Queen'. Trying to identify combinations which lead to tollerance to the rather warm conditions in Florida has led me to believe eberneum and lowianum combinations in cymbidium background does lead to warm tolerant plants. If you look at the background in Jungfrau you may understand this observation.

[RosieC]

Wow, glad this has been bumped back up so I can see it. Really great flower.

[Cym Ladye]

Orchids3,

Although SBOE has a great record of keeping clonal names on their hybrids, they have tended in the past to not put them on many of their species. I suspect this may be because many of their Cym. species are divisions of a limited number of each species they have and they know what they are. Of course, this doesn't help us when we get them!

However, I have found that you can often get the clonal name if you contact Wayne with a photo and the approximate year you got the plant/BB, at a not too busy time of the year.

CL

[D_novice]

Resurrecting an old thread so as not to start a new thread.

This is a Cym Ladye plant that came to me through another Northern California grower. These photos are from June, the plant was in spectacular flower from May-August. I bought it in spike, it had 3 enormous spikes with many flowers each (15? 20?). I'm hoping that with my culture, under my conditions, it will continue to be so floriferous and produce this amazing yellow and green color.

I have another lowianum ('Bret Harte') that paled in comparison to this 'C d H' - so much so that I'm not going to bother to keep it. (It was a pale yellow).