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Old 01-16-2024, 01:50 AM
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We share a lot of our blooming plants, but this time I want to share my delinquents.
These are freeloader plant who don't appreciate my support, maybe it's my fault but I have to vent sometime haha.

Delinquent 1, schomburgkia superbiens.
2 years of bulbs after bulbs and never bloom.
in the summer it just do nothing but go to sleep.


Delinquent 2. C.Walkeriana (coerulea)
The slowest cattleya I have ever grown. Atleast he seems to be producing a bud, but it has been like that since July.


Delinquent 3. Rossioglossum
This is the true freeloader, 3 years in and this couch potato doesnt even pay a single flower, he just get fatter ever year.


Delinquent 4. Phrag Geralda
I though it was sending out a seath last spring, but no, it went to sleep then decided to wake up again this winter with new pups.


Perhaps the worst of my delinquent. Oncidium Lizjohnson
Holly Molly, I would been even happy if it was sending new roots, but no He's been feetless for past 6 months. I could careless about the flower, I'm just begging for him to just take root already. I've given him all of the Michelin nutrients buffet I could have. Even a humidity spa wasnt enough for him. No wonder most nuseries dont grow his kind as speciality.


Honorary Mention. The other schromburkia
It took her 2 month to get up there and still not bloom, but atleast she's getting somewhere.


wew, had to unload that disappointment off. I feel a bit better now.

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Old 01-16-2024, 11:07 AM
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Is that first L. (Schom.) suaperbiens labeled "alba"? There's an alba cultivar all over southern California (because it gets big and people divide it) that has been described a "shy bloomer" ... I have had one for years that did what yours is doing. (Getting big, taking up space, not blooming) The only ones that I have seen bloom (in other people's collections) were huge. What is the aluminum foil for?

The other L. superbiens is fine... spikes take months to develop, but are quite spectacular when they do finally get to the point of blooming.
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Is that first L. (Schom.) suaperbiens labeled "alba"?
I am not so sure to be honest, the label has mostly faded away leaving only a few hint. All I could make out of is the schom- and super- on it. I bought it from the lady who's retiring from her orchid collection.

>What is the aluminum foil for?
I realize that blackpot gets incredibly hot when I placed my orchids out for the full winter sun. my finger even burned, so I figure wraping the foil around the pot to deflect those heat. Funnily, this realization came to me first when I was moving my african bulbs around the yard.
who know, it could be there to block off hypnotic waves from orchidmaster mind who's been preventing my laelia from blooming.

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Thank you for the entertaining post and for sharing that even very experienced growers encounter frustrations with their collection
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Great idea for the aluminum foil!

You'll probably never know if that is the infamous L. superbiens alba unless it does eventually bloom. (Try looking at the tag under very strong light, sometimes the "hidden text" becomes visible.) But I would not be surprised if it is, based on performance, or rather lack of it. If you have the room, just let it grow, outgrow the pot (these like to run free anyway) and see what happens, don't take the non-blooming personally.
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PP Molcar - Forget the beautiful orchid growth -- what is that fuzzy-wuzzy hanging above? I need one! ROBB
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I thought this would be about some of my posts.
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PP Molcar - Forget the beautiful orchid growth -- what is that fuzzy-wuzzy hanging above? I need one! ROBB
the cactus?
it's Cleistocactus Winterocereus or Monkeytail cactus.
It's a very cool plant, it'll look like this in maturity.
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It's been called:
Hildewintera colademononis
Winterocereus colademononis
Cleistocactus colademononis

And the name at this moment is:
Cleistocactus winteri subs. colademononis.
Cola de mono = tail of the monkey. The name doesn't mean tail of the demon.

It grows in full sun dangling down rocky cliffs in an area with high summer rainfall and high humidity. It gets a warm, dry winter. It should do well in the deep South. It needs maximum sun to develop the long, shaggy spines.

Other Cleistocactus also have great flowers, often more than once a year, and beautiful stems. Some are upright growers and some dangle. All do well in areas with high humidity, which isn't true for some other cacti.
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OMG I want one of those, too!
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