Phragmipedium vittatum

[brasphrag]

This year flowering.


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[naoki]

Wonderful! If you have growing tip, I'd love to know. Do you treat it like a typical wet phrag with water tray on the bottom? I got one from BelaVista last year, and it is growing OK. I started with a water tray, but I'm letting the water in the tray dry out before next watering recently. I think dodidoki mentioned that he had rot issues when he kept it wet all the time, so I started to worry about it.

 

[tomkalina]

Beautiful!

 

[abax]

Really attractive and I love the two rows of speckles in the
throat. The speckles must be very enticing for pollinators.

 

[valenzino]

Beautifull!!!Always interested in seeds!!!!

 

[eteson]

So nice!. I find this species hard to grow. Do you have some growing tips to share?

 

[brasphrag]

I use to grow them with a water saucer on their feet. The tip is to understand how they live in nature: Spring and Summer with lot of rain and winter with dry rest period , but not the trail dry, only the air as they always have water just beside them in nature. Light is also very,very important for you that live at high latitude places - they never change flowering time to north Hemisphere and need good light source from October till March, maybe some artificial light used to Mexipedium or so. The potting media may not have alkaline stones, a mix of washed coarse river sand + a bit of pet + sphagnum. repot only if plant get larger than pot. replace the sphagnum if needed, but is good to stimulate living moss to grow at media surface. Fertilize is a tricky job: use only organic fertilizer , I use bone meal and an organic japanese fertilize named "Bocashii "wich is obtained by natural fermentation and drying of organic residues of vegetal.
Hope this help, any further explanation, feel free to ask.
Roberto.

 

[eggshells]

Wow. Thanks for the tips. Great plant.

 

[NYEric]

Very uncommon here. Thanks for sharing.

 

[dodidoki]

Outstanding...many thanks for sharing.

 

[brasphrag]

Previous year flowering ( 2008 ) Just to compare.

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[SlipperKing]

Beautiful. Now see where the hybrid I have gets its intense red tones.

 

[SlipperFan]

That is a fantastic flower!

 

[cnycharles]

Very tall flower


Elmer Nj

 

[dodidoki]

I think it is too rare sp to end this thread, maybe, if not the rarest sp of phrag. genus. Any story? To get, to grow os any idea to propagate? Maybe more pics about plant, pot, roots etc.
Many thanks: Istvan

 

[17andgrowing]

Nice

 

[brasphrag]

detail photos

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[eteson]

Cool to see!
I am so jealous! I wish I had that seedpod.

 

[eaborne]

Great to see indeed!

 

[brasphrag]

A table with different clones from different places: The synsepal in some are larger than pouch, staminode has some diferences as do the pouch shape and size.



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