Trichopilia Charlotte x ramonensis

[Djthomp28]

I love this genus, but we fight a lot. I have a very hard time with leaf spotting and bulb rot. At least this one was happy with me this year. There are two more spikes coming with two flower buds each.

 

[cnycharles]

Very nice! Sadly, no trichopilias remain in my collection

 

[abax]

Nor mine! I had four and they did quite well, bloomed and died...so sad.
This one is a beauty and should be fragrant. Is it?

 

[Djthomp28]

This one has been around for 3 years. Fingers crossed it stays healthy.

It is very, very fragrant. Syrupy sweet smell.

 

[abax]

I have my fingers crossed!

 

[Ozpaph]

beautiful show.
How do you grow it? Thanks

 

[podiver]

Charlotte is one of the most beautiful Tricopillia hybrids. The 5-6" yellow flowers from galeottiana have twisted sepals and petals from tortilis. ramonensis is a natural hybrid of suavis and marginata. Suavis gives it its fragrance and marginata gives it the deep colored lip. The rot usually comes from water that gets into the newly forming pseudobulb before the leaf emerges. I have found that keeping the humidity high and watering carefully while the leaf is emerges minimizes this rot. Beautiful and well grown. Where did you get the plant?

 

[Djthomp28]

Thanks all.

I grow my trichipolia constantly moist. In the summer, I grow it bordering on wet. Under lights in the winter, it is is a bit drier but never completely dry. Lots of air movement is key regardless of how wet it is grown. I transitions it to a rockwool cubes and perlite mix last year. This summer it was in a shady spot that only received a couple hours of speckled morning sun. This is the best blooming I have seen from it. Shady growing is definitely helpful.

This hybrid came from Porter's Orchids, but they closed a couple of years ago.

 

[tenman]

Lovely and well-flowered! What do you grow it in and how wet/dry do you keep it? I suspect this is Trpla. Charles x crispa (syn.ramonensis), which is now Trpla.Renee. Porter would have gotten his from the same local source I did. I am not aware anyone has done Charlotte x ramonensis, including the folks who made the above hybrid.

 

[Djthomp28]

I checked the tag. Tennis is right. The cross is Charles x ramonensis per the tag. thanks