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Lovely colour to that flower Angie, and it's nice to see one that isn't iilustrated in the new Frosch and Cribb Cypripedium book, they seem to have covered most of the others. It looks like it ought to taste of raspberries, but I'm sure you havn't tried.....?
Anne, I'm guessing here as I've been guilty in the past of underfeeding, but I would say no.All the advice seems to be of regular, weekly feeding, but flushing away the excess mineral salts with plain water between weekly feeds. Using osmocote would concentrate the chemicals for a whole season in one place. The other potential problem would be that fertilizer release by osmocote is, I believe, temperature dependant and given the weather we've had so far this year, the plants would be starving by now!
.... 'Goofy's Cyps 2013' reply 21, where the colour of the pouch of Dieter's plant is much paler. It's interesting to see the range of variation that can occur in just one hybrid.