SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
Not awarded quality by no means and only 2 flowers. The plant is not an easy grower either so I'll cut the spike today.
Paph Wossner Black Wings
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papheteer
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EXCEPTIONAL!
Nice....
Certainly is dark!
Certainly is dark!
SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
Seriously Papheteer you should be an AOS judge. I would be up there with the likes of W W Wilson, the Wellenstiens and Paphinatics!
papheteer
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SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
It will shorten the bloom period and start the plant into a growth cycle
nice colour and markings.
I find WBW a bit slow at first but once 2 growths it gets away nicely. I suppose it depends on the breeding, too.
I find WBW a bit slow at first but once 2 growths it gets away nicely. I suppose it depends on the breeding, too.
Yes I am trying to convince him to join our team as we are good friends lol.
SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
I have found this hybrid to be difficult to grow well. I've had a few just rot for no good reason. Another issue I see with anitum primaries is the lost of the dark green color. The plants turn this yellow green color and typically won't keep an old growth. I'm missing something in their diet or they're getting too much of something and its blocking proper uptake.
Anyone having success with anitum and can add helpful information on the culture requirements?
I have a few anitums (haven’t bloomed any yet though) and I keep them bright, warm and wet on swc. Two are big BS and the other 5 are seedlings. They don’t like to dry out (opposite of roths though).
Also they respond better to K lite fertilizer than the other feeds (with lots of flushing in between). But I’m not sure if I’m 100% right. They are at least alive and growing lol.
Just my two cents.
SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
Thanks for your 2 cents! I know Peter Lin in the Ft Worth/Dallas area grows and bloomed anitum in straight sphagnum.
Justin
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Very difficult to grow from seedling. I have killed several.
My mature plant loves constant moisture. I have it in an Orchiata/sponge roc/charcoal.mix with lots of sphagnum moss. Grown in relative shade too. It is a vigorous outlier that blooms every few years or so.
My mature plant loves constant moisture. I have it in an Orchiata/sponge roc/charcoal.mix with lots of sphagnum moss. Grown in relative shade too. It is a vigorous outlier that blooms every few years or so.
At any rate beautiful and relative dark coloured flowers. I like them.
Maybe I'm as easy to please as Papheteer......but definitely without wine......I like beer. Lol
Certainly not hard to please me! Wine helps!
Maybe I'm as easy to please as Papheteer......but definitely without wine......I like beer. Lol
SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
I'm with you Rudolf, I'm a beer man as well.
SlipperKing
Madd Virologist
I must do a correction on this statement. I looked up Peter's old post and he has anitum and others in straight Orchiata with a thick layer of sphagnum on top.
