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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Michael on March 29, 2009, 01:51:22 PM
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Freshly opened, and i rushed to take a picture. My very first Cypripedium. I will definitely try some more next year!!!
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Very nice Michael. What medium are you growing it in over there?
Another Cyp debile.
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I am growing it on a clay pot. The potting mix is very airy and consists of a top layer of leaf mould, some perlite amd loam. The bottom layer is made of grit to aid drainage.
For now it's still a single, but we'll see how it does next year :D
Is the Cyp. debile always nodding like that?
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Cypripedium are so much more beautiful than most of Paphiopedilum ...
Congrats ! ;)
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Yes Cyp debile always does come back under the leaf but most photo's don't show it because they are close ups of the flower.
Dave
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Well done Michael !
Always nice to experience a "First" isn't it !
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Michael, how long did you keep the reginae in the fridge?
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Michael,
is this the reginae which I sent you? What is the matter with the calceolus?
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If you do not like Paphiopedilum, then go for the Parvisepalum section Maxime ;)
Well done Michael !
Always nice to experience a "First" isn't it !
Yes it is Luc, specially when i have been hesitating growing them for the last 5, and then I get this success. But i must say that all the merit of this flowering belongs to Hans, and not to me, since he has grown the plant last year. Now next year we shall see if it flowers too! :)
Michael, how long did you keep the reginae in the fridge?
I had it since October until February, inside the legume drawer. I am seriously thinking of getting a fridge just for me!!! ;)
Michael,
is this the reginae which I sent you? What is the matter with the calceolus?
Yes it is! The calceolus are also in perfect health, the smaller one had no but this year, but the biggest one had one flower bud, that was damaged by a Caterpillar. Even though the damage was very light, the plant aborted the bud. Anyway, i am still happy that i killed it, before it started to chew on the leaves.
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Cyps need 2 to 3 months at 4oC or below, so your legume drawer must be cold Michael? A fridge would be OK in frost-free climates, but useless in a UK garage as temperatures below freezing knacker the thermostat. You'd need an environmental chamber which maintains a fixed temp regardless of the ambient temperature, i.e. can raise as well as lower the internal temperature. I think some American fridges do this?
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Anthony and Michael,
here we only have 2 to 3 weeks of minimum 4C. in winter , but I still manage to grow and flower a few Cypripediums , planted out in a cool , shady part of my garden ., so
do not make use of a refrigerater .Summer temperatures can sometimes climb into the
high thirties . I enrich the soil with leafmould and some perlite and bark.
I only grow a few Frosch Hybrids and the following 'easy' species : C. formosanum,
parviflorum and p. var. pubescens .unfortunately no others are available here.
Otto.
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My first attempt at Cypripedium.
Cypripedium formosanum
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Howdy All,
Do Cypripediums replace themselves each year, or does the growing "nose" from the previous year grow again? My Cyp formosanum from Otto has produced 2 lovely little noses on little stems about 1.5cm away from the current growth shoot and I am assuming that these are next years growth and the old shoot then just dies off? Never having grown these before I know very little about them. I am just VERY happy that it has not only survived, but also apparently multiplied this year as well. With our summer heat I wasn't sure it was even going to live until autumn. ;D Thanks Otto!! 8)
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Paul, the old shoot just dies off and can be carefully pulled out when completed dead. New noses form like side shoots.
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Anthony,
Cool, I thought that might be the case. At the moment there are 2 noses produced on "stolons" about 1cm long on each side of the original shoot. I'm assuming that these are the side shoots for the coming year then. I'm just so chuffed that it has survived. It was definitely something I didn't want to lose.
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I think stolon is not quite correct, as they are really rhizomes and the flowering shoot is a terminal bud.
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My small bed of Cypripedium parviforum and pubescens are breaking ground after the great weather we've been having lately. Will post some pics as soon as I get a chance.
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My first Cypripedium in this year. I think it is a macranthos typ. And an ordinary very strong Cyp calc. in a pot.
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Just catching up on the orchid topics.... Thanks Anthony for the info. I've never been quite sure where the difference between stolon and rhizome lies. Thanks for clarifying the Cyp for me.
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Amazing colony Johannes! It will be a nice display this year!
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Amazing colony Johannes! It will be a nice display this year!
I think it will be a single plant?
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The first Cyps in my friend's greenhouse.
Maybe Cyp. shanxiense
Cyp. plectrochilon
Cyp. japonicum
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My first attempt at Cypripedium.
Cypripedium formosanum
Michael my first attempt also,I have one other.
Cypripedium formosanum
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Some Cyp. photos in the Perth Show thread, Folks....
see here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3412.0
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Yeterday in my garden.
Cypripedium fasciolatum
Arisaema sikokkianum
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It looks like the Cyp season is starting
Here is my C fasciolatum slowly gaining strength
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Your fasciolatum certainly is looking good Ian. Here's my Cypripedium 'Sabine'. Because it is in a pot I'm tempted to rotate it to stop it leaning one way, hence the random direction of the flowers.
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Your fasciolatum certainly is looking good Ian. Here's my Cypripedium 'Sabine'. Because it is in a pot I'm tempted to rotate it to stop it leaning one way, hence the random direction of the flowers.
Anthony this is one I don't grow it looks very nice. Some of mine have the irritating habiit of flowering the wrong way :(.
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Hi guys,
nice to see that the cyp season has started, a bit late in the UK, but making up for it with the present warm weather.
i thought that it would be interesting to compare three very closely related hybrids.
First photo is of 'Inge' and it two parents, parviflorum var parviflorum and fasciolatum ( represented by a couple of clones with differently coloured lips).
It plainly demonstrates hybrid vigour even if some 'special' parents were used.
The second photo is of the hugely vigorous hybrid 'Sunny'( calceolus x fasciolatum).
This plant has grown like a triffid ever since I received it four years ago and is a good 'do-er' with shortish stems of pale yellow and brown flowers. Plant height is only a little taller than fasciolatum.For the first time this year one of the stems had two flowers.
Anthony - like your 'Sabine' this plant throws flowers in random directions so doesn't have a 'good side'. I've got round this at least partially in the past by placing the pot in a corner next to a wall during the stem development - the flower buds do seem to show a weak response to light.
Third is 'Victoria' which is parviflorum var pubescens x fasciolatum.
This is a young plant flowering for the first time with three stems and two flowers.
At present it is only a bit taller than fasciolatum but with time I hope it will approach Inge.
It has a chance as they are so closely related.
The common factor in these hybrids, fasciolatum seems to be an excellent parent, imparting vigour to all its progeny, either via height or number of stems.
The last photo is of two different forms of macranthos, the japanese 'hotei atsumorianum' and the normal form.
'Hotei' is a very distinct plant with very fat stems and leaves, much less hairy than the normal form and with this very deeply coloured flower.
I'll update this photo when the flower is open, it looks very promising, but it is much slower than all the others to develop,
Regards,
David
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Your fasciolatum certainly is looking good Ian. Here's my Cypripedium 'Sabine'. Because it is in a pot I'm tempted to rotate it to stop it leaning one way, hence the random direction of the flowers.
Anthony this is one I don't grow it looks very nice. Some of mine have the irritating habiit of flowering the wrong way :(.
It is very vigorous and started as a £3 seedling from PC in his sale before the name had be registered. I watch a bumble bee go into the pouch and then out via the route that takes it through the narrow gap between the stigma and then left stamen. It didn't bother visiting the other flowers in the pot. I suspect it was rather p****d off, even though it was in and out in less than a minute. If it is still looking good I'll take it to Glasgow next weekend.
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David,
Great stuff. That pot of 'Sunny' has a real "Wow" factor, doesn't it? Excellent pics!!
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The Cypripedien are blossoming with me in the garden at the moment.
Karl
Cypripedium tibeticum x parviflorum
Cypripedium calceolus
Cypripedium calceolus canary yellow
Cypripedium tibeticum x parviflorum
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A wonderful Cyp, isn't it?
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Karl - your Goldschuh is stunning. :D
Hans, indeed a wonderful plant !- tibeticum x macranthum?
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Some Cypripedien yesterday at mine friendly photographed in the greenhouse.
Cyp.japonicum 1 (2)
Cyprip.japonicum (4)
Cyp.margaritaceum (3)
Cyp.margaritaceum(2)
Cyp.pubescens (1)
Cyp.pubescens (3)
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Some more pics from the same friend's nursery.
Cyp. calceolus alba
x ventricosum
guttatum
x ventricosum
calceolus hybrid
macranthos alba
franchettii
macranthos
flavum
flavum
tibeticum hybrid
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Looks like they are growing in pure Seramis®?
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Karl,
that Cyp.margaritaceum is just amazing.
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No Antony, the soil is only covered with clay brick grit (against liverwort).
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Liverwort! Soil must be kept really damp then? What is the soil composition?
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We have a lot of rain here and so liverwort grows very well. The soil consists of 20% peat and the rest is minerally.
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But the plants look as if they are inside a greenhouse?
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No, most plants are outside, the pots stand between 2 greenhouses! But we habe liverwort inside the greenhouses, too (irrigation system).
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Time to find out what is going on with this Cypripedium calceolus. Last year I had 8 flowering noses. This year 1! C. X ventricosum, however, goes from strength to strength since I bought it 10 years ago from Ian Christie as a single nosed plant,
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I was about to say the same, Anthony. My 'Gisela' has only 2 shoots this year. Is it safe to lift and replant now? Maybe feed it instead - if so what with?
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Anthony - My Calceolus have gone backwards too this year. :'(
Eric
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I was about to say the same, Anthony. My 'Gisela' has only 2 shoots this year. Is it safe to lift and replant now? Maybe feed it instead - if so what with?
My plant looks healthy so I won't touch it until it is dormant. I am always of the opinion 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', but with cyps they are best dug up, or tipped out if in a pot, cleaned and replanted in fresh medium every three or four years. This plant has remained untouched for 10 years and I should have acted last year as it wasn't as good as 2007. As for feeding. Every two weeks with quarter strength liquid feed for species; every two weeks with full strength for robust hybrids.
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Some growers would pot them up after flowering also. Its seems thay can handel this but one needs to do it while there is rain forecast for a week or so to establish its self. This process of potting up in spring works for cyps as new roots are produced through the warm season where as in Autumn they do not they will just sit there till next spring.
Im in the process of potting mine up but its Autumn here. :)
Cheers
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Thanks for your advice. Poor Gisela is obviously hungry!
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Some Cyps from today
formosanum
yatabeanum
yunnanense?
franchetii
guttatum
flavum
macranthos
macranthos
unknown?
macranthos alba
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Oh Hans ... absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
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Cyp. calceolus
pubescens
x ventricsum
Sebastian
parviflorum (10cm)
andrewsii
unknown
x ventricosum
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Hans - Thanks for sharing these lovely photos.
Eric
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Hans, the last post has 8 names but only
7 6 pics?
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I was close Maggi. ::)
Here is Cypripedium parviflorum, which has been undisturbed now for 10 years, and Cypripedium 'Emil' that was in a certain black pot until last October. It has over 30 flowers, some stems being twin flowered.
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Lovely plants thanks for sharing :) :8)
Hans is Your C. yunnanense? maybe a hybrid with or pure Cypripedium calcicolum Syn. C. smithii?
The link goes to Frosch picture of that
http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Arten/smith.htm
Kind regards
Joakim
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The last of my Cypripedium to flower.
Cypripedium ulla silkens.
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I do like your 'Ulla Silkens', Derek, that soft yellow is very pretty.
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Hans lovely Cyps you have there!
What do you fertilize your Cyps with, they look so healthy and how often?
cheers
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Sorry for the error.
Here are the missing pics
Cyp Sebastian
Cyp parviflorum
I do not fertilize my Cyps!
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Hans Could the unknown be C. fasciolatum or C. farreri?
Hard to tell without knowing the size.
Frosch has some photos of details on his webpage.
http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Arten/fasci.htm
Kind regards
Joakim
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Joakim, the second unknown Cyp is not fasciolatum, because it is too small. I think it is farreri.
But I have no idea because the first unknown Cyp.
Hans
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Hans I think You are right about the second even if C. fasciolatum has a large span in size according to the Frosch website.
The strong colour of the first indicate Cypripedium calcicolum Syn. C. smithii or maybe C. tibeticum but maybe the size make it a hybrid or just a smaller flowered version of the one. I have only seen picture of paler flowered C. yunnanense but I have not seen any of them in real life.
Hope You find out and when You do please let us know too.
Thanks for showing these and hope there will be more
Kind regards
Joakim
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???you dont fertilize...whats in your potting mix that provides nutrients?
Whatever your doing it works for you
cheers
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I can only reiterate that I give mine quarter strength liquid feed once a fortnight for species (full strength for robust hybrids). There is not enough organic material in my mix and for more information see www.cypripedium.de/forum. This web site is in English.
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Thanks Anthony for your Fert programe and yes I do know of Cyp de forum. This fert progarame seems to be a standard one to follow. My mix is just a minerial mix also but I have included Seramis last year and they have responded well with an inorganic feed. The hybrids I have added some organics in the potting mix (bark, coco fibre) but still hesitate to fert at full strenghth but I still can understand that Hans doesnt fertilise his at all with 20% peat i think he mentions?..
I always thought Asain sp dont like organics in their mix so how does he do without fertilising..Whats your secrete Hans? :)
Cheers
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Just caught up on this topic. Yet again it is breathtaking. So many wonderful Cypripediums. I have GOT to find more of them here in Aus. 8)
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Hi there, this is a Cypripedium hybrid, name lost, though it might be 'Sabine', the flower is fairly large.
All ID thoughts gratefully accepted......
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1) Flowering for the umpteenth year, Cypripedium 'Gisella', bought this one off Ian Christie and it's been a great little plant!
2) First flowering with me, Cypripedium franchetii.
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Hi Chris nice cypripediums.
I like the last one but I do not think it is a franchetii. They are generally paler.
http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Arten/franc.htm
I think You have a very nice form of C. tibeticum. I think that is the most popular form of it so I preume You are very happy with it.
I will also put a link to the tibeticum of frosch website and You can deside Yourself if it is that or not.
http://www.w-frosch.de/Cypris/Arten/tibet.htm
It seems as if You have Your plants in beds and I wonder if it is in the normal modified garden soil or if You have a high content of inorganics like perlite/leca and so on in the soil or if the "soil" is made of these components almost entirely?
Kind regards
Joakim
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Joakim, non of these inorganics are available here in BG. I have adopted the 'know your plant' approach and have attempted to cater for their light and moisture requirements whilst quietly ignoring the actual composition of the substrate. So the Gisella, formosanum, henryi, flavum and reginae are growing in half to three quarters shade, their roots/rhizome are in a fairly nice moisture retentive woodland soil, the noses protrude above into decomposing bark/hazelnuts, about 4 to 6cm depth. The 'franchetii', fasciolatum, parviflorum ssp pubescens, smithii and macranthos are growing in three quarters shade on a 35 degree slope in a poor clay soil with an admixture of crushed concrete and render covered with a 1cm layer of composted bark. The hybrid is growing in three quarters shade in a seasonally wet very moisture retentive clay soil which has had composted bark dug into it! ( remains moist all year but is never saturated )
My other guiding principle are, will it stay moist at the height of summer when temps can hit 40c and their is no rain for two months, are the noses deep enough when snow cover is taken into account to survive winter lows of -25c, and is the substrate free draining enough to cope with several weeks of heavy snow melt!
I love cyps, but I don't think they will ever figure in my business plan, my location is a little too marginal, further north or another 500m of altitude would help!
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I would persume that both, some varity of leca (expanded clay) and perlite used for insulation, would be available. The latter exist for sure in Hungary and it might move into Bulgaria with the international things like Baumarkt and what they are called ( a blue firm as well). Maybe Bulgaria has not got all the international ones yet? Hungria has them all much more than Sweden has. ::)
Lidafors orchids (Malmgren) also recomend good garden soil as a substrate and they use some roof tiles as cover for the winter since the Swedish winter may be cold but has a lot of periods of snomelt and barefrost as well. His webpage is great and I strongly recomend it to anyone interested in European orchids. How they then grow there plants differ from the place they are in so there is not one unic solotion.
What do You think of the possibility of You having a nice tibeticum? Since You did not seem to have one before it might not be to bad (if bad at all).
Thanks for the information
Joakim
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Hi Joakim,
It's my day for miss-naming! I think you are correct I keyed it out and the plant I have does not have a densely hairy ovary, Cribbs suggests this is the best way to distinguish franchetii from tibeticum. I used to have tibeticum in the UK but lost it, so it is no great loss for franchetii to become tibeticum!
Leca is just becoming available but frankly it's an unneccessary expense as are many of these other artificial substrates, the climate is such here that many plants, including most of the european terrestrial orchids I grow, do not need fussing and do not need to be grown in pots. If I need an artificial substrate I can use frosted house bricks, they crumble into something resembling seramis!
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Hi Chris, I would go with 'Sabine'. Here are two more of mine: firstly 'Karl Heinz', X Ventricosum Album (3 larger flowers at the back are a different clone) and then 'Sebastian'.
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BTW notice in 'Karl Heinz' the three upper flowers in the middle on the pic are on one stem.
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Cheers Anthony and very nice clumps indeed!
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Hiristo,
interesting method of growing your Cyps using crush concrete and bark. How long have they been growing like this and where did you get this idea from?
Also whats your soil pH and do you fertilize your Cyps?
Im starting to think Cyps arnt so fussy after all, they do like bark?
cheers
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I give my mix 10% composted bark and 10% loam. All the rest is inorganic - either 40% Seramis®, if I can get it and 40% perlite, or 80% perlite. I also add a handful of crushed oyster shell.
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Great clumps Anthony and nice plants Chris. Seems we may all have the same gentleman (from Kirriemuir) to thank for a lot of our plants ;)
Here are few of mine
Axel
Pubescens
Parviflorum Butterball
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Stephen,
This is largely down to 'No Choice'. The inorganics aren't readilly available here, but also the climate here is such that drainage and moisture levels are maybe less of a problem factor than for growers in nothern europe / in pots! We all I think find a method that works for us, one mix / method might work for one grower but not for another!
Indeed Ian, many of the plants I bought from the 'gent' in question are growing in the garden here despite living in pots for years and moving over 4,000 km!
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Some Cyps from yesterday.
The names:
Hildegard
formosanum x fasciolatum
tibeticum x fasciolatum
flavum (2x)
Ulla Silkens
2- leaves
franchetii
a small form of tibeticum
flavum
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Some very nice ones there. I see nice variations in the C. flavum.
I am not sure I can identify all of the other would You help with naming them when You can.
Thanks for showing us. 8)
Kind regards
Joakim
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Joakim, I have added the names
Some more Cyps:
reginae alba (2 forms)
macranthos alba x kentuckiense
macranthos x fasciolatum
fasciolatum x franchetii
yunnanense
farreri
I hope all names are correct.
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Magnificent, Hans ... what wonderful plants!
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My other two clumps of Cypripedium calceolus seem to be doing OK, although I forgot about clump three and covered it with loam over winter.
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Hans :o :o
Such a lot of different plants. Just how many do you grow? and are they in the open ground or pots?
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Ian,
I grow 200 Cyps in pots (under an open party tent), 30 different Cyps in the open ground and 30 Cyps in tall pots outdoors. So around.
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Ian,
I grow 200 Cyps in pots (under an open party tent), 30 different Cyps in the open ground and 30 Cyps in tall pots outdoors. So around.
Phew! That's a lot. :o Did you lose any this winter?
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My first Cypripedium ever, C. reginae. In a pot, but I plan to add it to the woodland garden this weekend. Anything special I should know?
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Ian,
I grow 200 Cyps in pots (under an open party tent), 30 different Cyps in the open ground and 30 Cyps in tall pots outdoors. So around.
That's quite a lot Hans :o Are raising these yourself from seedlings ?
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This winter I lost some japonicum, formosanum, plectrochilon, one pubescens and a very tiny parviflorum, but only those which I grew in pots. I think it was too cold. Outdoors no losses.
I have no seedlings, but in my garden I have just seen a lot of seedlings between my plants (calceolus, macranthos).
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Nice to know the names and You have some interesting hybrids there Hans.
Nice work
Joakim
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Just in bloom here the dwarf Cypripedium from Newfoundland. Perhaps one of the intermediates of planipetalum ??? ??? ???
More manure helped!
johnw
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Manure! Arggggh! :o That would be instant death to most cyps! The site must be quite dry?
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Manure! Arggggh! :o That would be instant death to most cyps! The site must be quite dry?
Not particularly dry Anthony. The bed was re-done about 4 years ago. Have been top-dressing with well-rotted manure ever since I got them but gave them more last year. I also do the Shortias, Hellebores and Soldanellas as the soil in this area is poor mineral. A friend had the best stands of C. reginae I have ever seen and he used vast quantities of manure every year, they were in a raised bed over a very wet spot. So too his Meconopsis.
johnw
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Well rotted manure is not so strong in nutrients as one would think. Much of the nitrogen has gone both with the breaking down of the "other substrate" (straw etc) and by the evaporation of ammonium from the breaking down of urea.
In the bags of cow manure one buys in Sweden there are even added nitrogen.
(If it is chicken droppings it is a different matter but I do not expect that to be manure. It is high in nitrogen as is all bird )
If the plants (crowns there of) does not have direct contact and the roots only if the seek them self deeper it is not as fare away from a "good garden soil" (manure = nutrients and organic matter (not that far away from leaf mould?) mixed with a mineral soil gives good drainage) that is also working for people. It is the Chinese spotted leaf plants and some very small others that are the really troublesome ones and having the nicer ones (in gardening sense) like parviflorum and reginae that is almost native to Johns area would make it less sensitive plants.
I think that the different conditions in different places makes it hard to have one right or wrong solution. I think there are some dogmas regarding these plants that have some points but might be overly strict.
Kind regards
Joakim
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Like you Anthony I thought manuare would be the death of any Cyp but apparently a nursery in the States has the biggest stands of Cyp reginae I have ever seen out in the open garden and all they fed them with is well rotted cow poo, early spring.
There is all ways talk of manure and how it should not be used to fed Cyps as the bacteria may attack the Cyp roots, maybe in pots but out in the open garden i dont think so..any thoughts?
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I wonder what Michael Weinert would say?
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A wonderful Cypripedium (reginae x fargesii). This hybrid produced from an Austrian grower does not flower very well, but I have some flowers this year :D
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Very interesting flower, Johannes, Is it larger than C. reginae? Looks much 'fuller'. By the way, how wet do you keep C. reginae? I've read it prefers good moisture and shouldn't dry out.
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This Cypripedium and its flowers are smaller than reginae. I grow these hybrids only in pots and keep them wet. They should never dry out! The leaves have excellent red spots, when the leaves appear.
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Jamie,
C reginae is found growing in bogs in the wild.
In cultivation it likes to be kept moist in pots or in the garden. I've also heard that this sp when mature out in a garden setting tends to have roots com to the surface spaning out to almost a metre in search for moisture and nutrients just under composted leaf mulch.
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Hans this hybrid is almost the reverse of Ulla silkens since the latter have the petals re-flexing ( going backwards) and this new one have the petals going forward almost holding the pouch. Well done with the growing. Many of these hybrids are very shy in flowering so well growing :)
Lovely strong colours as well.
Kind regards
Joakim
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Hans,
Gloriously furry!! Really beautiful flower. 8)
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First Cypripediums this year
1.Cypripedium macranthos
2-3.Cypripedium guttatum
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Oleg, are you sure your first one is macranthos? There seems to be some calceolus sap in there somewhere?
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Assistance appreciated please.
I have been growing seven Cypripedium calceolus seedlings in one large pot for at least six or seven years - they survive each successive winter and get 'slightly' more robust each year but remain painfully small. All the literature suggests that feeding can be dangerous - they get ample moisture, part shade and a suitable compost that is very similar to the large stands we have encountered in the Dolomites (I hasten to add that my plants are NOT from the wild). I am not able to put them out into the garden but would like to see them flower before I gain the nickname Methusela.
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A few grains of slow release fertilizer (Osmocote) at the edges of the pot won't hurt them one bit, but wouldn't it be better to plant at least some of them out into the garden?
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Thanks for the advice. There are many huge pans of various cyp's exhibited at AGS and SRGC shows, so I know that pot cultivation is not really the problem. My particular pot is certainly as large and capacious as those being exhibited so it has to be the feeding regime or the compost?
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Might they be "over-potted", Cliff ? Perhaps a little constriction would encourage competition?
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I can only reiterate my advice, which comes from www.cyrpipedium.de/forum, and use quarter strength Miracle-Gro every fortnight on species such as calceolus. You can see the size of my pot-grown plants. During the growing season the pots are placed on a bed of sand in a sheltered spot and kept well watered (we call that rain in Scotland).
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(we call that rain in Scotland).
;D ;D ;D
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Oleg, are you sure your first one is macranthos? There seems to be some calceolus sap in there somewhere?
Thank you for the idea, Anthony. I suspected something like this. But you are never sure what you buy until it flowers. Anyway I like it and even happy as I was presented another "macranthos" from Altay which is supposed to be the real species but will take a year or two to establish. So now I'm happy to have two different things.
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My cyps have done well this year.
Cypripedium kentuckiense look good at the moment
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Wow. I'll second that. Mine are having a year off. :( Mind you, there are three noses instead of one. :)
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Here are Cc. 'Philipp', 'Ulla Silkens', parviflorum pubescens and macranthos (the last being grown from a seedling).
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Nice Cyps Anthony and Diane,
Diane how do you grow your kentuckiense, is it in a pot or in the garden?
I know of some growers who use equal parts of sand and bark as a potting mix and supposingly kentuckiense really respond to this.
Cheers
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Diane how do you grow your kentuckiense, is it in a pot or in the garden?
I know of some growers who use equal parts of sand and bark as a potting mix and supposingly kentuckiense really respond to this.
The kentuckiense is growing in a pot kept plunged in a frame in the winter. The potting mix is leaf mould/perlite/fine bark/sand sort of mix.
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The kentuckiense is growing in a pot kept plunged in a frame in the winter. The potting mix is leaf mould/perlite/fine bark/sand sort of mix.
Thanks Diane, also with the amount of leaf mould in the mix do you bother fertilizing it as well or is the compost enough?
Cheers
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An other Cyp reginae x fargesii (Bernie). I think the last one in this year, maybe wardii will soon flower.
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different colors by Cyp. Ulla Silkens
Cypripedium , alpine plants and Lewisien are hobby my wife
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some Cypripedium
Cyp. Sabine.
Cyp. pubescens
Cyp. Phillip
Cyp. Michael
Cyp. Ivory
Cyp. calceolus
Cyp Sabine 1
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Great Cyps Anthony, Hans and Wolfgang
Just saw mine with one in flower and a lot of ulla silkens i bud. (in Sweden)
All the best
Joakim
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Do you have 2 clones of 'Sabine' Wolfgang?
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Nice Cyps Wolfgang,
especially that tight clump of the Sabine, there must be 20 shoots in there, worth dividing up!!
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My last Cypripedium, a little late! An interesting colour? It is reginae x any 2 leaves Cyp (fargesii, margaritaceum?).
We have a disasttrous weather here (some floods and rain since May!). In June we had more than 700mm rain and now thunderstorms with more than 100mm rain every day, yesterday hail. So the Cyps and specially the Pleiones look very bad due to the humidity, but the hail has failed my garden.
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Really lovely, Hans, the colour is very pretty...sorry to hear you've had so much rain causing damage...it's down her now!
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Do any of you have experience with Cy. acaule? It grows in great quantities on my sisters property, which is sandy with a humous layer of about 10cm, mainly pine and oak. I would love to try this species in cultivation, but, despite the plenty on my sisters land, I don't relish killing any!
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Jamie
Cyp acuale is described as tricky since it needs acidic soil and that may be why your sister can have it in a pine oak mix.
Well drained acid mix but not an easy plant to have in pots after what I have seen. In nature it grows to big colonies and there it is not tricky after what I have seen on pictures.
I presume You want advice from someone that have grown them and I have not, and I do not think they are so common in Europe in cultivation, more so in the US so maybe asking in "Slipper orchid forum" might help You to more information?
All the best
Joakim
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Thanks for the tip, Joakim. If I find any special infos, I'll report back.
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I am sooo jealous of those Cyps. Well done everyone!
Karl how small is your Cypripedium margaritaceum
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It is vey interesting: Emmets living in community with a Cypripedium. I visit this plant for 4 years and it is flowering every year!.
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Goodness me! That is a big Ant nest! Perhaps it is giving the orchid special protection from all predators!
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I remember finding a very large Scottish wood ant's nest in woodland at Kilmahog, just north of Callander, Perthshire. A friend asked me if I could find a large number of ants in a hurry as he had been commissioned to supply them for a film (with Colin Firth in it). He used a vacuum cleaner to sook them up and and I got a free trip to Trinidad out of it. ;D
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I just got a few bites on the knees from these, Anthony ... in the forest at Campitello in Italy.
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They have very natty striped "suits", don't they?
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Many years ago I was in the London Zoo insect house when they were tipping and ant nest (collected from Burnham Beeches). The poor keeper nearly passed out from the formic acid fumes in the confined space of their enclosure! :o