What are your wintergreens doing?

[SteveC2]

My Orchis militaris only went dormant about three weeks ago, when summer finally arrived and has made a massive tuber as a result. 

[goofy]

My Orchis militaris only went dormant about three weeks ago, when summer finally arrived and has made a massive tuber as a result.

hello Steve, SAME as my militaris plants in the garden,

DIFFERENT from new plants from Greece..............
my friends told me, that those are dormant since May/June .................
(and they "recommend" to keep them NOT TOTALLY DRY in summer,
same as they do with their tubers, tubers should never dry out )

instead of keeping them DORMANT as long as possible
the task is to keep them GROWING as long as possible.

THATS THE TRIC of making huge tubers   
cheers

[Maggi Young]

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[LarsB]

Mine is dormant here in Copenhagen as well, expect for Pterostylis abrupta, which starts almost without dormancy. Maybe i should try with a little water for the Orchis and Ophrys to get them going as early as possible. They definately grows best when they get an early start, but 've never figured out a sure system to start them early.

[Neil]

I just water my plunge bed to start with, so the compost in the pots becomes just damp,  and as soon as there is growth showing above ground, I start watering and feeding into the pots.

[mark smyth]

September 12th last year I noticed my first Anacamptis were above ground and the first leaves open. I better hurry and get repotting finished

[Neil]

I repotted mine in June

[mark smyth]

I'm too busy in the summer months to do much. Nearly every evening after work I'm out doing bat surveys

[mark smyth]

While not much is happening with most of the collection in the greenhouse, should I give them a wee bit of water?, just now green growth caught my eye in a pot in the garden. No label to tell me what they are or who supplied them - well I know what kind of plant they are. They are now potted and in the sand plunge

My O. militiaris, which it isn't from Jacques Amand has produced a strange new tuber. Like other bulbs could it be pulling itself deeper?
A photo of the leaves back in April 

[Maggi Young]

I associate orchis tubers for O. militaris etc as being small rounded things - your pic  ....ex Jacques... looks much more like a dact. to me .....    

I know from a log of Paul Cumbleton's that Ponerorchis tubers can look a bit like yours - though they are hairier. I'm very interested to hear what the orchid growers have to say on this.

[mark smyth]

I haven't touched the pot with O. militaris since it went dormant. I cant imagine a Dactylorhiza seedling growing so fast. The original tuber could have died.

[David Nicholson]

Mark, if they gave a Nobel Prize for loosing labels you'd be a shoe-in

[Neil]

I am taking it that the 3rd photo is the leaves of the tuber in photo 2 in which case it could be a gymnadenia

[mark smyth]

Yes Neil

[SteveC2]

I'm with Neil, if I found this in one of my pots I'd think gymnadenia!
Steve
p.s. Maggie, ponerorchis tubers are about the size of a peanut and a similar shape, but very very hairy.