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All about Orchids

All about Orchids

A practical guide to the home cultivation of most beautiful orchids

6/28/09

Blooming Orchids

Blooming Orchids


Most popular orchids, phaleonopsis, may still in new branches blooming whole year and more. Most orchids otherwise not flourish so long, the average is somewhere between 14 days (miltonia, cattleya) and one month (cymbidium, paphiopedilum, oncidium). Only a day or two of flourish vanilla and orchids of the genus stanhopea.
How long to hold a single flower on the Orchids?
Inflorescence phaleonopsis and paphiopedilum can remain healthy and beautiful even more than four weeks, while the flowers cattleya becomes plain after 10 to 14 days. By the age of many orchid flowers start to change color until at the end does not redden and fall. These include a number of vandas (v. coerulea and hybrids), zygopetalum, cymbidium and others.

Blooming Orchids

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6/27/09

When orchids bloom?

Blooming Orchids



This question is impossible to give a single answer. Many families have a specified period of blooming that encourages climate factors. If this situation we can not guarantee, we’ll never saw the flowers. These include the dendrobiums type Nobile, cymbidium, falusi, sinokes etc...

Blooming Orchids


In contrast with these orchids, there are also large group of orchids, which do not have a clearly specified period of bloom and bloom when they are sufficiently strong and therefore able to hold flowers. These include phalaenopsis, paphiopedilum, many masdevallia etc...

Blooming Orchids

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