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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Catwheazle on July 29, 2015, 07:11:27 PM

Title: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Catwheazle on July 29, 2015, 07:11:27 PM

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

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Sempervivum on July 29, 2015, 07:21:04 PM

I like this plant too! Two images of mine:

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Maggi Young on July 29, 2015, 07:23:57 PM

Very fine yellows!

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Maren on July 31, 2015, 09:24:50 AM

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?

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Catwheazle on July 31, 2015, 11:29:22 AM

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)

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Sempervivum on July 31, 2015, 12:00:00 PM

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.

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Maren on August 01, 2015, 07:12:59 AM

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

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Nova on August 20, 2015, 02:47:15 PM

Mine opened today.
Between the green popping out, no one could overlook 8)

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

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Sempervivum on August 20, 2015, 06:38:33 PM

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.

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

That's interesting information!

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Nova on August 20, 2015, 09:41:48 PM

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.

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Nova on August 21, 2015, 03:07:54 PM

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

Title: Re: Spathoglottis ixioides
Post by: Maren on August 22, 2015, 12:41:55 PM

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