Spathoglottis ixioides

[Catwheazle]

A nice little addition to Pleione: Spathoglottis ixioides The plants seem sociable. Anyway, they grow in the community pot better :-)
(treatment like Pleione, but finer bark in the compost.
Greetings

Bernd

[Sempervivum]

I like this plant too! Two images of mine:

[Maggi Young]

Very fine yellows!

[Maren]

Hi, I'm so glad you posted these pictures. I inherited a fine pot of Spathoglottis ixioides but this year it only produced leaves. I grow it with my pleiones, which are doing extremely well this summer. I wonder if it's a question of pH or overwintering temperatures. Any thoughts?

[Catwheazle]

By Bernhard Röllich, Germany, a very experienced Pleione gardener, I received follow instructions: planting flat, and necessarily 0.5 - 1.0 cm cover with substrate (finer than in Pleione). Not gießem, but only spray until spreading into the wild. Leave the pot. Plants are not hardy.
My stand light without direct sun, in my ferns (cool conditions).
Another group I had planted my Pleionen, but which were not covered with the substrate, but with moss. They have not bloomed!
Hope this helps :-)
Bernd

Rest (dry) from mid of Oktober to March. Then replanting each year)

[Sempervivum]

Hallo Maren,
I grow mine together with my Pleiones too and my experience is similar to yours: They produce a lot of shoots but only few are flowering.

[Maren]

Thank you for your comments. Let's hope they flower next year.

[Nova]

Mine opened today.
Between the green popping out, no one could overlook

Btw shade is lacking since I have moved house. I grow mine in a sunny place, apparently they don't mind direct sun.

[Sempervivum]

Fine that yours are flowering. There seems to be the bud of a second flower? Yours are much later than mine: For me the flower is already over.

I grow mine in a sunny place, apparently they don't mind direct sun.

That's interesting information!

[Nova]

Yes Ulrich, there's second bud and they are quite late. I thought I lost them when nothing showed up in May, they started to show signs of life in June. I have left the tubers bit longer in the fridge this year due to the hassle of moving.

[Nova]

Had some time to make better pictures.
Love the fuzzy detail on the back of the lip, hardly noticeable with the naked eye.

[Maren]

Nova, very lovely and thanks for posting a close-up. These little treasures deserve a closer look.