Stanhopea Chocolate Eyes
 

This is the second to open today, another of Doug Pulley's hybrids. It is (Mormon Pioneer X inodora) with a narcisus like fragrance.

The flowers are very lovely! :)

Flowers are uncommon but beautiful. Makes remember an insect.:)

I heard the flowers last for 3 to 4 days only. Is it true?

I got a Stanhopea wardii as a gift. Something a litle more difficult, I think, from what I'm used to.
But I couldn't say no.;)

Can you tell us the conditions you are providing to get these beautiful flowers? Temp, % and light?

Wonderful!

Oh man, I can't wait for my S. oculata to bloom. I hope it will do something this summer.

Your Chocolate Eyes is just gorgeous.

Great looking flowers!

Three days is about average for a stanhopea. I have had them last a week if the temperature is in the low 50's
I grow under lights and outdoors in the summer. The indoor temp's are 58* to 70*. The lights are on for 12 hours and a fogger is on a timer off and on a number of times over 24 hours.

Perfect for me in winter.
In summer...humm, may rise to 28ºC indoors (lower 80's), that's the coolest I can get inside at summer.

Wonderful strange blooms. To bad they don't last longer.

Lovely!

Should be fine. I used to grow a bunch of Stans in Hawaii, where it regularly gets to about 90ºF. Nina Rach (who created the Stanhopea pages) grows her Stans in Houston, where temps regularly get into the high 90's or low 100's.

At least I can grow cool growing phaps in the window I'm talking about.
Main problem now is humidity. When I get 28 indoors, outside there are temps between 90 and 105 (30 to 40ºC) and % between 15 and 20.
I'd need to water alot.

The flowers are fantastic! Reminds me of little birds in flight :)

My stanhopeas have gone through tems as high as 100* out doors in the summer. They don't like it,but as long as the don't dry out they are ok. the flowers how ever will not last long.
Indoors I try to keep the humidity around 70% to 80% with the Hydro-Fogger.