It's Taking Forever...

[Yoyo_Jo]

This is one of the first paphs I ever bought, a hybrid with a ridiculously long name:

Paph (Red Maud x Grand Master) ‘Pastel Pink x Nikko Magic ‘Pink Lemonade’


I bought it in April/07, single growth, never bloomed. In Feb/08, I thought I could feel swelling at the base of the plant. In April/08, it started sending up the sheath. At the end of August, I could see the bud through the sheath if I held the plant up to the light (desperate girl). Now it's finally poking up a bit. This is so cool, but I just wish it would hurry a little bit...:rollhappy:

 

[JeanLux]

It won't be long now!!! ??? Jean

 

[rdlsreno]

Patience is a virtue!

Ramon

 

[goldenrose]

Can't rush mother nature!
PS - don't get a malipoense!

 

[Bolero]

Hey it's worth the wait. It can feel painfully long though.

 

[SlipperKing]

Don't forget to post a flower PIC in '09' when it's openoke:

 

[goldenrose]

Don't forget to post a flower PIC in '09' when it's openoke:

:rollhappy::rollhappy:I'm sorry Jo BUT he's probably right! A caution about bud/sheath watch - you know what happens to the watchpot?

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

:rollhappy::rollhappy:I'm sorry Jo BUT he's probably right! A caution about bud/sheath watch - you know what happens to the watchpot?

Ya ya, never boils. :rollhappy: Well, if it opens in 2009 (and not 2010) I'll be thrilled. I really am learning patience; also, I find it really helps if you just keep buying other orchids in bloom/spike to pass the time...

 

[Elena]

That would drive me nuts! oke:

I've a plant in bud at the moment which I was expecting to open about a month ago but the sheath decided to take a few weeks off and it's only just started moving again. Darn plants :sob:

 

[toddybear]

Unusual for a callosum type hybrid to be so slow...in my experience, they are generally fast...parvis on the other hand!

 

[biothanasis]

What to say...!!!???? Just wait...!

 

[goldenrose]

Ya ya, never boils. :rollhappy: Well, if it opens in 2009 (and not 2010) I'll be thrilled. I really am learning patience; also, I find it really helps if you just keep buying other orchids in bloom/spike to pass the time...

:clap:Thatta girl!

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Update...

It's a comin'...

 

[PaphMadMan]

Red Maude x Grand Master is Red Icon, if you'd like to shorten up that name a bit...

 

[Kevin]

What is that, like 5 weeks already???

 

[paphioboy]

Can't wait to see it... But that is a bit on the slow side for a Maudiae-type hybrid..

 

[biothanasis]

Good things take a long time to happen...

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

Can't wait to see it... But that is a bit on the slow side for a Maudiae-type hybrid..

Hmmm, maybe it's a culture thing. I don't know. The plant is in a south facing window (shaded in the summer) and now has supplemental fluorescent lighting. Maybe it's the humidity; I'm hard-pressed to keep it above 40%.

Interestingly, I bought this Paph. Maude Raven x Black Cherry at our show in early October, with the bud just barely visible. Now look at it, in just a month's time it's shot right up.

 

[SlipperKing]

I tell what Jo, it's waiting on it final name change before it's birthoke:

 

[paphioboy]

Great new purchase... Vini Maudiae type hybrids... :drool: :drool:I want..!!!