Bree, you grew up a flask? Great!

And congrats Kathy! Perhaps it was the fairly sunny Summer? And yes, they will...

bet it was the bright summer! We usually have dark rainy summers.

Thanks! ive deflasked about 3 paph flasks, 1 cymbidium one and this Zygo one and do have a few of each left. hehe! I didn't have the right set up when i did most though and about half ended up gradually dying, scale didnt help with the outside ones either.. Im still babying a tray of paph seedlings inside and in my greenhouse i have a tray of half cymbids and half zygos. Easy to deflask but just make sure the plants are neally to the top of the flask and decent sized. I got some of mine real small and was to keen to deflask (didn't think i could keep them alive in the flask) but ended up having to baby them to much.
It may be a while till the Cymbids and Paphs flower though.
I keep my paphs too dry, not enough air movement and in too much light according to most paph growers. I don't know why yours won't flower Kathy, our temp.s must be different thats all i can say because its neally the only thing i can get to flower, you should be able to you'd think. I only grow them in under 70% green shadecloth (but there not burning or lightening at all.) With no fan or vents (we do live near a river so there a breeze alot) and i only get around to watering them about once a week(it does rain though) i try to water the seedling paphs abit more but when i water everythings dry. Its usually pretty humid here and we hardly get a frost. All my orchids stay outside in winter.

Bree, interesting details. I think you did fine, reading the yield you achieved on each flask.

You say "we hardly get a frost" and "All my orchids stay outside in winter." Which means your orchid may see some really low temperatures in the Winter.

About 5 or 6 years ago I bought a Paph flask with 30 babies. Bird attacks and all sorts of factors made me lose most of them, but I have now one blooming size plant and 2 smaller ones. But I think it was worth the experience for me, I just wanted to see if I could do it. Will I do it again? Probably not, since I like to see them blooming in my lifetime.

Bree, our temps outside are in the teens F most of the winter (snow cover most winters never goes away. some weeks are -20 F with windchill!) so they all go inside. The paphs are inside in 65-80 degrees F, watered lightly daily (always too much I think). Fairly shady light in and out. Temps are 45-90 F outside in the summer and early fall. When they bud I give them a bit more light. Last winter I put my older spicerianum in some nice indirect light all winter to see if it would initiate bloom which works with my phal but no go.

The calanthes.

Dendrobium rigidum-a mini.


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Your Calanthe look excellent.
My Calanthe Kozu is planted into the cage and the leaves look by now fairly light green and not in a long shot that good.

Cute Denrobium rigidum!