beckygardener said:Yay! So glad you got to actually see this one bloom! What did you think of the fragrance?

It was simply MARVELOUS!!!!!!

Nice one Cinta!

Very nice, Cinta.

I think this is Epi related.
A bit rainy today but could not resist getting out and staring to build the new Epi greenhouse. Its a Costco car canopy without the canopy. In a few days plastic sheeting will go over the top and then the other covered areas will be tied in and tidied up.

Wow! That is quite a home you are build for the epis! Very cool!

Sure, it's Epi related
pretty amazing jungle-within-a-jungle action you've got going on there!
such a contrast to the parched land ablaze we have here

Looks like paradise!

Dutchlady1 said:I found a bloomed out flower this morning. You snooze you lose....

You are so right, Hetty. Been there done that.

I woke up and found 2 bloomed out. I knew they were ready but I did not go out and look. I was up until 3 am as usual I could have went out and looked but noooooo I sat on my lazy behind.

Its a wonderful feeling of disappointment that you will get used to knowing that out there, in the dark, something wonderful was happening all because of a plant you cared for.

I stare at mine daily willing it to bloom. So far, it's not working well at all.

Sing to it!

I'm pretty sure it can hear the music from the greenhouse. But just in case, I will turn up the volume.

@ShadyGreenThumb Keep up the music but in addition, feed your epi some banana skins. I slice them into small pieces and drop them into the pot. They will soon turn black and you won't notice them, but they seem to have something that your epis like and perhaps that will prod them into blooming to say thank you.

Potassium?

terrafirma said:I am sooooo disappointed.
My epi did not open. I checked on it every evening before bed, and every morning, first thing. The bud is hanging straight down. Still firmly closed.

@Ursula, I'd never heard of epis' susceptibility to this cleistogamy. To be honest I wasn't familiar with the term at all. Do you think it's possibly what happened here?

@terrafirma Just catching up here. Been on a trip out west. I am sure your epi bloomed. One of the names for epi oxys is Dutchmen's pipe. About a week before one of the. buds opens, it turns upward, and if you see one hanging down in this manner, you have missed the opening.

Banana skins? I can do that! AND the Banana Song!! "I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say...."