Happypaphy7
Paphlover
These are seedlings of Helen Congleton, a cross between Norito Hasegawa (malipoense x armeniacum) and delenatii. They can come out looking like anything one can possisbly imagine shuffling around those three species, duh. 
There were (are) four plants on each of these two pots (diameter of 3.75in).
One smallest seedling in the pot on the left suffered damping off last summer, and I simply just pulled it out of the pot.
No one else has been affected since. Thank goodness!
They did have this long period of no activity while looking perfectly fine.
I was worried what's going on, possibly some root rot going on.
I just waited and waited, watering on the dry side.
Then in the fall, they started to grow again. They stopped growing during the warm apartment winter.
They are growing slowly again now. will probably stop again since sudden early heat wave has arrived here. gosh!
In the pot on the right, the smallest one is hidden under the bigger siblings, but you can see the part of the plant if you look hard enough.
I feel bad for it being under the shade, but I don't want to disrupt the vigorously growing 3 seedlings for trying to save the "inferior" one, so no touch!
These seedlings have been in the same pot in the last two years.
Hydroton (baked clay balls) at the bottom for drainage, the rest are coconut husk chips, paerlite, lava rock, and some others of insignificant amount, which I do not really remember.
I water about every 3-6 day depending on the weather, season, and how lazy I get.
Fertilizing was done about once a month only when I see them "actively" growing. I don't fertilize things much in general, although I do go through periods of heavy fertilizing and zero fertilizing. I don't really see any difference in plant performance, so I'm more on the side of "let's just water them".
Light:
All my plants were grown in the natural light in my south facing windows with shear curtains.
These two pots have been moved under T8 light (4 bulbs of 4ft, distance between light and plants about 16in) since last month.
I actually took the compot with smaller seedlings out of the light and placed them back to the windowsill. They just didn't like the light too much.
Anyways, all the plants in this photo were some of the largest seedlings out of the flask initially.
After being out of flask, and then subsequently repotted, about one year after that, all of them had this period of no growth, which happened to all my seedlings with the exception of venustum so far.
It's been almost 3 years, and I am happy to see a few of them are nearly blooming size now. Based on past experience, this cross flowers on a mini plant, so I'm hoping that the ones in the pot in the right (and I have one of the same size potted up on its own) will come into bloom sometime in the next one year time frame.
can't wait to see some variability. yay!!!
There were (are) four plants on each of these two pots (diameter of 3.75in).
One smallest seedling in the pot on the left suffered damping off last summer, and I simply just pulled it out of the pot.
No one else has been affected since. Thank goodness!
They did have this long period of no activity while looking perfectly fine.
I was worried what's going on, possibly some root rot going on.
I just waited and waited, watering on the dry side.
Then in the fall, they started to grow again. They stopped growing during the warm apartment winter.
They are growing slowly again now. will probably stop again since sudden early heat wave has arrived here. gosh!
In the pot on the right, the smallest one is hidden under the bigger siblings, but you can see the part of the plant if you look hard enough.
I feel bad for it being under the shade, but I don't want to disrupt the vigorously growing 3 seedlings for trying to save the "inferior" one, so no touch!
These seedlings have been in the same pot in the last two years.
Hydroton (baked clay balls) at the bottom for drainage, the rest are coconut husk chips, paerlite, lava rock, and some others of insignificant amount, which I do not really remember.
I water about every 3-6 day depending on the weather, season, and how lazy I get.
Fertilizing was done about once a month only when I see them "actively" growing. I don't fertilize things much in general, although I do go through periods of heavy fertilizing and zero fertilizing. I don't really see any difference in plant performance, so I'm more on the side of "let's just water them".
Light:
All my plants were grown in the natural light in my south facing windows with shear curtains.
These two pots have been moved under T8 light (4 bulbs of 4ft, distance between light and plants about 16in) since last month.
I actually took the compot with smaller seedlings out of the light and placed them back to the windowsill. They just didn't like the light too much.
Anyways, all the plants in this photo were some of the largest seedlings out of the flask initially.
After being out of flask, and then subsequently repotted, about one year after that, all of them had this period of no growth, which happened to all my seedlings with the exception of venustum so far.
It's been almost 3 years, and I am happy to see a few of them are nearly blooming size now. Based on past experience, this cross flowers on a mini plant, so I'm hoping that the ones in the pot in the right (and I have one of the same size potted up on its own) will come into bloom sometime in the next one year time frame.
can't wait to see some variability. yay!!!
