Niveum

[paphioboy]

First-flowering seedling. This one was grown from a stray seedling in one of my bellatulum's pots. Grown slowly but steadily under less than optimum conditions for 3-4 years.

 

[troy]

Nice, how do you grow niveum?

 

[paphioboy]

Troy, warm-hot all year (it is grown outdoors but under cover from rain). Media is charcoal, leca, broken brick, limestone, some soil. Light is bright, diffused. Niveum can take up to cattleya light but it usually encourages it to bloom on small immature growths, which I don't think is good. I grow it in somewhat phal light for best foliage colour. This pot I top-dress with a bit of moss as I have it by an apartment window, with low humidity.

 

[SlipperKing]

Great gooding Paphio! I grow mine very similar.

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[troy]

Thanks!!

 

[SlipperFan]

Nice.

 

[paphioboy]

Another first-bloom niveum. This was purchased as a 'leucochilum' with rather pretty leaves. A bit ruffly at the edges.