Epidendrum ciliare (Coilostylis, Auliza, Encyclia ...yni!)

[Grautier]

A new acquisition:

[DirtyCoconuts]

so elegant!

[Grautier]

When I buy an orchid, at my place I have not much to choose from, so, when I really want a certain plant, I'll take it even when the potting is wrong. I've tried to tell the vendors but it does what it takes ...
So, too, this one needed a repotting. Obviously it hat been crammed into a pot with a few chunks of charcoal, two pieces of pine bark and the rest pure peat.
The roots - lots if them! - looked like they had previously grown into air, so my plant is likely a cutting from an 'overgrown' big one.

Now it has got a freshly made basket. It will like it, once I can reassume watering. The weather does not help, sunny, cold and dry.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Sweet basket. What kind of wood?

[Grautier]

Different ones. Hard ones, that can manage outside conditions without turning into mush the first four or five years.

[Shadeflower]

love the basket made out of branches.

[Grautier]

Two days after pollinia are deposited the lip first and then the whole flower turn yellowish and the petals close onto the lip.

[Grautier]

Looking good. Greening and swelling where it should.

[Mr.Fakename]

I'll be getting seeds of this one shortly, and your plant made me even more excited to grow this species!!

[Grautier]

Fingers crossed!
Than, do you know by chance how long a seed pod of this Epidendrum does take to ripen? Near to a year I'd guess?