What's happening in your fridge?

[Slug Killer]

To David, I knew that you were going to say that, because I'd discussed it with you when I bought mine. (2 out of 5 flowered even though you said they were fs-1, many thanks)  But people still keep telling me that I've got to keep them very cold.

Depends where the hookeriana originated from, any from me will have Indian parentage not Chinese which would make a difference!

Most of the FS-1 I have could flower but people expect something bigger than a pea and it's easier to say FS-1. Glad some flowered for you. Did you take any photo's?

[Pascal B]

It could be the advice to keep hookeriana cold for a longer period finds its origin in the flowering period in the wild but that does not mean that hookeriana will not adept in cultivation to a different growth cycle. I have photograped hookeriana in the wild in Nepal in 2007 where it was in full flower on May 24th. To my knowledge almost all hookeriana in cultivation flower earlier than that, irrespective of the origin. Or is that a wrong assumption?

[Slug Killer]

Pascal

Mine flower about May but also start losing leaves and going dormant before any other Pleione I have.

David

[Pascal B]

OK, so apparantly the last remark was indeed a wrong assumption.....

[SteveC2]

A not so great photo of one of mine, (How did I not notice the label in the background?) photgraphed last year on May 24.  The second is yet to open.  Mine, which of course were once David's, also are the first to drop their leaves.

[SteveC2]

Now you see it, now you don't.  Just thought that I'd share the new improved version of my dodgy photo, courtesy of David and photoshop.

[Maren]

Darn, the Coleman's has to go, or maybe the wine???

[Slug Killer]

 

[Peter Maguire]

Definitely not the wine! 

[Maggi Young]

Definitely not the wine! 

Ah, Peter, the voice of reason.......   

[angie]

Maren I just love your picture. If I told folks that some people keep there plants in their fridge and they flower there they would think I am mad.

Angle

[majallison]

Now that's what I call a well-stocked fridge!  Mine is bare but for a lump of cheese (drying/ mouldering) & a tupperware box containing silica gel & vials of Nerine pollen.

[Maren]

They've gone mad. I didn't expect them to flower so early, I need them for the London Orchid Show. All the P. formosana 'Clare' are declaring independence. I've never had to hold anything back. I suppose it's a confused spring following a utterly upside-down 2010.