2 phrags for review

Slippertalk Orchid Forum

Help Support Slippertalk Orchid Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
D

DavidH

Guest
HannePopowxCardinaleemail.jpg

Last week this plant had 6 blooms on it! It's Hanne Popow x Cardinale.


phragGrande1email.jpg

This plant originally came from a person who really knew their plants and had this labelled as a cadautum. After several detailed pictures of the plant were reviewed by two experts, the consensus is it's a Grande. I was given it by a friend last summer as a 4 growth division and it just exploded! Two of the growths have 3 flowers open at once and more buds are on top!

phragGrande2email.jpg

a closeup of the flowers.

-Dave
 
I'm actually surprised that the Hanne Popow x Cardinale has three branches of flowers. I hadn't seen that on any of my phrags before.
 
The Grande is in a 5 inch net pot, Aussie Gold mix, sitting in a container that will hold up to 1/2 inch of water. Leaves are about 16 inches long and the plant probably takes up about a 10 inch diameter. Most of my phrags are clumped together so it looks more like a jungle than it does individual plants (i.e. all you can see is leaves, not individual pots). It's on the top shelf and gets near 3000-3500 ft candles of light. It easily handled winter temps of the low 50's. I feed my plants with 50 ppm N using the west coast MSU formula from Fred Clarke (Sunset Valley Orchids), which means it has a PH of 0.5 higher than the regular formula. When feeding, the PH of the fertilizer water is 6.8.
 
I was just informed that the Grande was awarded a CCM at the Phoenix show earlier today.
 
Roy said:
Congratulations, NOW, please tell us how you got so many spikes on the thing!!!!!!!!

High light (3000 ft candles), pure water, 50 ppm Nitrogen feedings, net pot, a water retentive mix, and letting it sit in about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of water which accumulates after I water everything.

Except for not having a circulating pump, it's close to semi-hydro.
 
Thanks Dave, mine are very close to the light factor of yours and have been higher, no luck. Currently my Phrags are putting up spikes or in flower, 6 months out of wack but many growths per plant hopefully multi spiking at the right time.
ROY.

ps might have to place an axe near them !!
 

Latest posts

Back
Top