Lycaste virginalis alba

[monocotman]

Hi,

Flowering for the first time in two years.
It took last year off after exhausting itself the previous year.
That year it produced six flowers from a single bulb.
This year it is five from two smallish growths.
I removed one when small to try to stop more flower over production.
Anyway these seem to be easy growers and do not need high humidity to
flower well.

https://www.flickr.com/gp/39664958@N03/78Tn40


https://www.flickr.com/gp/39664958@N03/WfbYWn

Regards,

David

 

[Erythrone]

Oh wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TyroneGenade]

Hi,
Anyway these seem to be easy growers and do not need high humidity to
flower well.

Great plant and flowers!

Thanks for the info regarding humidity. Humidity is my biggest problem right now. In summer it will be heat. How do these cope with summer hear?

 

[monocotman]

Humidity

I think that our lack of summer heat in the UK helps enormously.
It rarely gets over 30c here and so we do not have this form of stress to impact the plants.
The plants are also mostly grown indoors where there is a consistency in the environment that is impossible to replicate in any but the biggest greenhouses.
This maybe why the phrags and lycastes do so well,
David

 

[TyroneGenade]

Thanks, David. Summer temps here go well over 30 oC. Lycastes may not be the best choice for me... :-(

 

[NYEric]

Nice. I still haven't figured Lycastes out.

 

[Linus_Cello]

Nice. I still haven't figured Lycastes out.

Gotta stop watering when dormant.

 

[SlipperFan]

Pretty.

 

[Migrant13]

Such a beautiful lycaste. Superb growing!

 

[Ozpaph]

beautiful display

 

[Stone]

That is very beautiful. I have a tiny seedling of this...waiting