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Bolero
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Hi guys there has been an unfortunate death in my orchid family today...........
I will post the photo below but you may or may not remember I bloomed this over a year ago in May 2008. Anyway I grew it for several years before blooming it, it also started to form two new growths.
However once the plant stopped flowering the main growth fell apart and the two small growths stopped developing. There is no rotting and when I finally threw it out it had 6 strong healthy roots filling the pot.
Any thoughts on why this might happen? I treated this thing like a baby and kept it cool to intermediate in winter and warm in summer. I have other plants like Ho Chi Minh, Magic Lantern and Golddollar growing beside it and they are all healthy. I had it growing in a 50mm pot.
This is after it had just finished blooming and as you can see the growth is still healthy:
This is the bloom itself:
I just don't understand after forming two new growths why the old one would fall apart and the whole thing would stop growing. The roots as stated above were all very healthy and I had great hopes for it. I don't have anymore of this one so now I will be battling to find another one. As you can imagine it's all very disappointing.
I will post the photo below but you may or may not remember I bloomed this over a year ago in May 2008. Anyway I grew it for several years before blooming it, it also started to form two new growths.
However once the plant stopped flowering the main growth fell apart and the two small growths stopped developing. There is no rotting and when I finally threw it out it had 6 strong healthy roots filling the pot.
Any thoughts on why this might happen? I treated this thing like a baby and kept it cool to intermediate in winter and warm in summer. I have other plants like Ho Chi Minh, Magic Lantern and Golddollar growing beside it and they are all healthy. I had it growing in a 50mm pot.
This is after it had just finished blooming and as you can see the growth is still healthy:
This is the bloom itself:
I just don't understand after forming two new growths why the old one would fall apart and the whole thing would stop growing. The roots as stated above were all very healthy and I had great hopes for it. I don't have anymore of this one so now I will be battling to find another one. As you can imagine it's all very disappointing.