Lycaste campbellii

[JPMC]

I've never bloomed a Lycaste until now. I've had this for 6 years before it bloomed. Not very colrful, but I still like it.

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[smweaver]

Nice looking blooms, and a pretty cool species too. Lycaste campbellii, at least for me, has been one of the harder species to bloom. It seems to like much more warmth during the winter, compared to my other lycastes and sudermerlycastes (formerly idas). Did your plant get any extra warmth over this winter as compared to previous years? The shape of your plant's blooms is nice. Congratulations on the flowers.

Steve

[tuvoc]

Very nice, and well worth the wait, I think.

Kim

[JPMC]

Originally Posted by smweaver

Nice looking blooms, and a pretty cool species too. Lycaste campbellii, at least for me, has been one of the harder species to bloom. It seems to like much more warmth during the winter, compared to my other lycastes and sudermerlycastes (formerly idas). Did your plant get any extra warmth over this winter as compared to previous years? The shape of your plant's blooms is nice. Congratulations on the flowers.

Steve

Thanks for the information, now I don't feel so bad about taking so long to get a bloom.

It did not get any different treatment this winter. I did note that it was REALLY liking more fertilizer than I usualy give my plants so I gave it more this past summer. Mayby that's the reason for the success?

[Stitzelweller]

Originally Posted by smweaver

It seems to like much more warmth during the winter, compared to my other lycastes and sudermerlycastes (formerly idas). Did your plant get any extra warmth over this winter as compared to previous years? The shape of your plant's blooms is nice. Congratulations on the flowers.

Steve

JPMC,
CONGRATULATIONS for flowering Lyc campbelli !
fwiw, Lycastes LOVE beaucoup fertilizer!

Steve, I hope that campbellii doesn't require extra warmth. My plant was exposed to low/mid 50s F during winter. I purchased my campbellii from Orquivalle, March 2010. It's quite a splendid one! It won't flower in 2011. I will attribute this to a standard first year acclimation period (denial? ). It took me two winters to get Lyc macrobulbon from the same supplier to bloom (very handsomely, too!).

[smweaver]

Originally Posted by Stitzelweller

JPMC,
CONGRATULATIONS for flowering Lyc campbelli !
fwiw, Lycastes LOVE beaucoup fertilizer!

Steve, I hope that campbellii doesn't require extra warmth. My plant was exposed to low/mid 50s F during winter. I purchased my campbellii from Orquivalle, March 2010. It's quite a splendid one! It won't flower in 2011. I will attribute this to a standard first year acclimation period (denial? ). It took me two winters to get Lyc macrobulbon from the same supplier to bloom (very handsomely, too!).

Rats! Maybe that just means that the difficulty is with my growing conditions and not the plant (always nicer to blame the plant, right? :-).

[Stitzelweller]

Originally Posted by Stitzelweller

Steve, I hope that campbellii doesn't require extra warmth. My plant was exposed to low/mid 50s F during winter. I purchased my campbellii from Orquivalle, March 2010. It's quite a splendid one! It won't flower in 2011. I will attribute this to a standard first year acclimation period (denial? ). It took me two winters to get Lyc macrobulbon from the same supplier to bloom (very handsomely, too!).

My Lyc campbellii flowered handsomely in May. I look forward to 2012. This should be a true test. Will it bloom profusely on an entire year+ growth under my conditions?

[BikerDoc5968]

Well, guys.... FWIW: Lyc. campbellii is in the Deciduosae division (See what you've done to me, Howard S.... got me doing homework). From what I've read, this group has mostly the yellow deciduous Lycaste which like a definite winter rest and can handle both the upper and lower ends of the temperature scale. The members of the Macrophyllae group, Lyc skinneri have a more narrow heat tolerance. As for light, the AOS culture sheet states the deciduous group tolerate light as for cattleyas in the 2,000 to 4,000 fc range while the "evergreen" Macrophyllae like lower light in the range of 1,500 to 2,000 fc. I think a lot of how these grow relates to our local growing situations and how they differ from their native growing environment. Enough of my senile rantings.... beautiful flower no matter how long it took!

[WhiteRabbit]

lovely! congrats on the blooms - and here's hoping for more in the future!

[Stitzelweller]

Originally Posted by BikerDoc5968

Well, guys.... FWIW: Lyc. campbellii is in the Deciduosae division (See what you've done to me, Howard S.... got me doing homework). From what I've read, this group has mostly the yellow deciduous Lycaste which like a definite winter rest and can handle both the upper and lower ends of the temperature scale. The members of the Macrophyllae group, Lyc skinneri have a more narrow heat tolerance. As for light, the AOS culture sheet states the deciduous group tolerate light as for cattleyas in the 2,000 to 4,000 fc range while the "evergreen" Macrophyllae like lower light in the range of 1,500 to 2,000 fc. I think a lot of how these grow relates to our local growing situations and how they differ from their native growing environment. Enough of my senile rantings.... beautiful flower no matter how long it took!

FWIW,
My Lyc aromatica 'S.B.' was grown over a period of ten years, until I divided it this year, in full sunlight (Maryland). I rarely burned a leaf on the occasion of extraordinarily low humidity with clear blue skies.