Cypripedium-2015

[Hakone]

cypripedium japonicum

Edit to add a pic of this orchid from Hakone in the past- 2011

[Nova]

Cypripedium japonicum

It's Cypripedium formosanum Steve, japonicum has green petals and slightly different shaped pouch: http://www.orchidspecies.com/cypjaponicum.htm

[monocotman]

Steve,

still superbly photographed as ever!

David

[Neil]

It is very interesting to hear just how much water super coarse perlite holds in a pot.

It's approximately  225ml of water per litre of coarse perlite 

[Maggi Young]

It's Cypripedium formosanum Steve, japonicum has green petals and slightly different shaped pouch: http://www.orchidspecies.com/cypjaponicum.htm

 

This photo of  Cyp. japonicum is from the forum, from the late Hans Hoeller


See also  these photos in the Forum :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=11591.msg303314#msg303314
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10027.msg276623#msg276623
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5129.msg152555#msg152555

[Steve Garvie]

It's Cypripedium formosanum Steve, japonicum has green petals and slightly different shaped pouch: http://www.orchidspecies.com/cypjaponicum.htm

Thanks!
This explains why it has grown so well.
I bought it as a young japonicum from a German grower a couple of years ago.

Perhaps I need to check plant details more carefully when looking through the viewfinder of a camera! 

[Hakone]

cypripedium japonicum

[Hakone]

cypripedium Lady Dorine

[monocotman]

As an experiment I have uploaded a short video of the current state of my plants onto YouTube called cypripediums in pots two.
It sits alongside cyps in pots one which I made two years ago.
The experiment is only partially successful as it was made with the video function on the new iPad and is shown in portrait rather than landscape which cuts out much of the picture.
However I will try again when more flowers are open.
I may even add a commentary as Ian does!
If anyone wants to view it you will have to search for it using the title as I have still to get to grips with the apple way of doing things.
 I am sure that it must be very easy if only I knew how.
Anyway the only plant with open flowers is a nice fasciolatum with about 9 blooms.
This plants also has a fantastic scent when the weather isn't cold and gloomy.
The other plant of fasciolatum is nowhere near as strongly scented.
This scent has been passed onto just one of several fasciolatum hybrids, a nice plant of Sunny.
Regards,
David

[mark smyth]

Cyps in pots 1


Cyps in pots 2

[monocotman]

Mark - thanks,
David

[Pauli]

Mark,

wonderful plants from a very skilful grower - superb!
Perhaps in your next video you mention the name of the hybrids - one would know better what to look for.

[Alex]

Very nice, David. Lovely specimens.

Here is Cypripedium farreri from Hengduan this year.

Alex

[Steve Garvie]

Very nice, David. Lovely specimens.

Here is Cypripedium farreri from Hengduan this year.

Alex

Very nice!!!

[SteveC2]

This time last year I was a happy bunny as my Cypripedium japonicum had flowered for the first time.  Things are still heading in the right direction with three flowers this year, but on ten growths, and it could have been five flowers except two aborted, (frost / dryness I am not sure).  I looked back on the forum but all I could find were single flower pictures, so here's a few questions to growers of japonicum.  Do you find it a reliable, easy flowerer? Does anyone have a large plant covered in flowers?  Does everyone find formosanum miles easier to grow and flower?