Coelogyne Fimbriata mislabelled?

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Some Coelogyne can tolerate cooler or warmer temperatures than others, but generally speaking, most of them grow in intermediate temperature ranges, 15.6℃ - 29.4℃ (60℉ - 85℉).

One thing that I've found is that many of them don't like high dissolved mineral content in water. They tend to get leaf tip die back very easily because of this.

They grow well in moderately bright indirect light.

A moderate relative humidity of 50% - 70% is fine.

Many of them like a fair amount of water too. They need to dry out a little bit before they get watered though.

As a group, Coelogyne are not the easiest orchids to grow in my opinion, but they are not very difficult to grow either.

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Originally Posted by Keithj

I bought a Coelogyne fimbriata from Burnham Orchids last weekend. The pseudobulbs are well-spaced with around an inch between each one. They are tall and slender. Here are a couple of photos.

Keith

Thanks for the pictures! They really are ramblers then aren't they
My small one has pseudobulbs that are roughly the same shape, long ovals, instead of the almost perfect spheres of the bigger one I have.

Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)

Some Coelogyne can tolerate cooler or warmer temperatures than others, but generally speaking, most of them grow in intermediate temperature ranges, 15.6℃ - 29.4℃ (60℉ - 85℉).

I'm in Scotland, so the temperatures are usually on the lower side, so at least I won't be cooking them!

Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)

One thing that I've found is that many of them don't like high dissolved mineral content in water. They tend to get leaf tip die back very easily because of this.

Ah that's good to know! Luckily our water here is pretty low in mineral content, low enough to grow carnivorous plants happily, so this hopefully shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)

They grow well in moderately bright indirect light.

A moderate relative humidity of 50% - 70% is fine.

Many of them like a fair amount of water too. They need to dry out a little bit before they get watered though.

As a group, Coelogyne are not the easiest orchids to grow in my opinion, but they are not very difficult to grow either.

My humidity is usually 50+ so that sounds good! Should I let them dry out to the point the pbulbs wrinkle slightly then water, or is that letting them dry out too much?

Thanks so much for taking time to answer my questions