Cypripedium 2012

[John Aipassa]

Cant find the little o for degrees on my mac.

Angie,

Just type Alt and 0(zero) simultaneously on your mac and you'll get the little º for degrees in case you want to use it other than on this forum 

[angie]

Thanks John. I am just hopeless with these things 

Angie 

[John Aipassa]

Thanks John. I am just hopeless with these things 

Angie 

No you're not. The majority of Apple users don't know these specific key board combinations. I certainly don't and I always have to look things up 

[John Aipassa]

Another shot of my x alaskanum. Just can't get enough of these little beauties.

[Anthony Darby]

Lovely pic of a lovely orchid. I wish I'd tried these delicate beauties.

[goofy]

John, really nice specimen

[Maren]

Another shot of my x alaskanum. Just can't get enough of these little beauties.

Hi John,

would you say that the C. x alaskanum is easier to grow than its parent C. guttatum?

[Alex]

Quick question for the Cyp. people, if I may: I have a nice C. macranthos that I've grown for 12 years now (originally from Chen Yi, so it dodn't have the best start!) and it normally puts up a couple of FS or just less shoots despite a lot of neglect. This year it didn't appear, so i dug down into the pot to find a very healthy rhizome and lots of healthy roots with a rotten shoot (there might have been more than one). Is there hope for the plant to get back to a FS shoot soon, or is this a dead end now? i think they do have subsidiary shoots sometimes, but I can't see one i this case. Will it take may years to reach its former size if it can? Advice welcome!

Cheers,

Alex

[John Aipassa]

Hi John,

would you say that the C. x alaskanum is easier to grow than its parent C. guttatum?

Hi Maren,

I am not sure. I have lost all my guttatums in the garden, whereas x alaskanum (four clumps) keeps coming up each year with leaves and one is starting to flower now. But the guttatums I received had all short roots systems; probably wild dug  . 
The x alaskanum needs time to settle in well to flower though. All of them where bought mature and with flowering sized buds, but none of them flowered all these three years up until now. As with japonicum and being a spreader I think it will need sufficient length in their root system to start flowering.

I have started again with guttatum this early spring, but with a seedling 2 years from flowering with a healthy long root system, so now I have high hopes for it to survive and start flowering in two or more years.

Best,

[John Aipassa]

Quick question for the Cyp. people, if I may: I have a nice C. macranthos that I've grown for 12 years now (originally from Chen Yi, so it dodn't have the best start!) and it normally puts up a couple of FS or just less shoots despite a lot of neglect. This year it didn't appear, so i dug down into the pot to find a very healthy rhizome and lots of healthy roots with a rotten shoot (there might have been more than one). Is there hope for the plant to get back to a FS shoot soon, or is this a dead end now? i think they do have subsidiary shoots sometimes, but I can't see one i this case. Will it take may years to reach its former size if it can? Advice welcome!

Cheers,

Alex

Alex,

If the root system is healthy it will survive. Just plant the roots in the pot again maybe sprayed or dusted with some fungicide around the shoot and maintain your normal growing procedures, but don't neglect it . It will send shoots again next year although smaller and probably not flowering.
Good luck.

[Alex]

Thanks, John, I'll do that.

Cheers,

Alex

[goofy]

hello friends,
these two today.

not so good this year
Cypripedium Anne (reginae X macranthos)


and only few flowers this year on
Cypripedium reginae albiflora


nevertheless ENJOY

[angie]

John your Cyp alaskanum is brilliant  so is your photo taking.

Ang 

[Pauli]

Hello,

very light colored, but I think still tibeticum!

added 30/05/12

Hello,

I have been told that my light coloured tibeticum is in fact  franchetii because of its hairy ovarium!

[Tony Willis]

I agree with Angie about the alaskanum and the reginae albiflora is wonderful.

A couple of my lesser offerings

Cypripedium flavum
Cypripedium calceolus