and what did you BLAST recently?

[goldenrose]

I know there's not always an answer but who knows maybe it will help.
I had a Paph. sangii x roth blast, as some may have read on a previous post. I have a GH, I hadn't moved the plant from it's location since I acquired it. I don't feel I did anything different with watering, I avoid any overhead watering. We have had a bit of an unusual summer, as we go from one extreme to the other (one week it's high 80's-mid 90's,the next week we have night time lows of 50!) so I don't know if that was part of it?

 

[Marco]

my phal. javanica bud have been blasting successively for the past 2 months and still going

 

[bwester]

my bulb. macranthum and patens

 

[Heather]

I'm really hoping NOT to blast my roth. and supardii...only time will tell.

 

[NYEric]

I thought it was a Paph Wossner Vietnam Gold but it was a Fumi's Delight! Blast!

 

[Candace]

I don't know why, but my paphs don't blast! And I'm not complaining:> But once in a while I'll lose a bud on a cattleya if water builds up in a sheath.

 

[John D.]

My Phrag caudatum, got it in low spike with several other things in Washington state and brought them back on the plane as carry on. There were a few mealies so I sprayed them with alcohol before I left the vendors greenhouse. Evidently got too much alcohol on the spike, good news no mealies, bad news - blasted Phrag.

 

[toddybear]

I blasted 2 buds on Eric Young but at least the third (and last) seems to be developing normally. Touch wood, I've never blasted a paph.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

Its summer. I intend to blast a lot these next few weeks....Eric

 

[Ron-NY]

I just lost the buds on a CAtt but I had also just treated it for scale. I had my Paph Rosey Dawn blast this past winter The one that upset me the most was last summer My Paph Unique (roth x fairrieanum) blasted. It would have been a first bloom for me and I was excited to see what it would look like.

 

[goldenrose]

OK you guys are making me feel better, but it's still a bummer, what a waste of a growth! That was going to be my first roth X!

 

[dave b]

Podangis dactyloceras. So excited to see spike forming last week, only too find it brown and shriveled the other day.

 

[Heather]

OK you guys are making me feel better, but it's still a bummer, what a waste of a growth! That was going to be my first roth X!

Rose,
Have you a St. Swithin yet? They're pretty good growers and easy to bloom in my experience (2 so far.)

 

[Ross]

Currently in blast: Paph henryanum, Phrag (caudatum sanderae x besseae flavum)

 

[goldenrose]

Rose,
Have you a St. Swithin yet? They're pretty good growers and easy to bloom in my experience (2 so far.)

That's good to hear! BS Multi X's I have:
In Charm Redhawk (Redhawk 'Ebony' x St. Swith)
Marilynn Hansen (del x stonei) who's been in spike forever!
Mt. Toro 'album'
PEOY (roth 'Noyo' x sand 'Candor')
sangii x roth
Woluwense (roth x niveum)
Sdlgs - St.Swithin 'Walbrun'
Lebaudyanum album(philip x haynald)
Sandy's Wild Turkey(lowii x victoria regina)
Larry Booth (St.Swithin x haynald)
Vera Pellechia(stonei x St.Swith)
BS species - Haynald album
Lowii
Parishii
Gardineri
3 roths (Borneo x borneo dark, DaGuanYuan x GreenValley &
NBS Arthit x Butterfly)
& an OZ stonei 'Melancholy x 'PenanPride'
YIKES - where did all these come from? Keep your fingers crossed!

 

[NYEric]

If you want to get rid of the Marilyn Hanson...

 

[Marco]

nice set you got there Rose

 

[Frederick]

vietnamense x emersonii

blasted in January. My fault--I was away for 3 weeks over Xmas--it got too dry. Very disappointing because it is a beautiful clone which I had flowered once already. I hope it will bloom next Jan. but it is a slooooow grower (emersonii influence). Beautiful foliage too.
Happy growing
Frederick

 

[goldenrose]

I read these posts thinking , oh no what a bummer, that would be a nice one!Have we ever heard anyone complain that their crappy *^#* blankety, blank blasted?:rollhappy:

 

[Marco]

blasted in January. My fault--I was away for 3 weeks over Xmas--it got too dry. Very disappointing because it is a beautiful clone which I had flowered once already. I hope it will bloom next Jan. but it is a slooooow grower (emersonii influence). Beautiful foliage too.
Happy growing
Frederick

Do you have a photo of the previous bloom that you could share with us?