Turn around on helenae

[MorandiWine]

Hello All,

Does anyone know approximately how long it would take on average for Paph helenae to bloom from germination? Or any of the "dwarf" species, ie thianum, coccinianum, tranlienianum, etc.

thanks

Tyler

 

[Ross]

My experience has been on average about three years from deflasking for the earliest group. A few might bloom a bit faster. Add 1 1/2 to 2 years for pollinating, seed maturation, and growth in the flask, and you have a good average of about 5 years.

 

[MorandiWine]

Okay good to know thank you. I was kind of hoping that because of their miniature designation that they might bloom faster. Thankfully it's still nothing like some of the large multi florals.

Tyler


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[krisk]

Mine flowered 10 months out from the bottle. The nice thing with miniatures is that you can grow them to full size in the bottle. So obviously these were mature plants when they came out. It's much faster than trying to grow a little seedling to maturity.

Cheers,

Kris

 

[Chicago Chad]

thaianum is dreadfully slow

 

[krisk]

thaianum in flask or thaianum as a seedling?