Happy New Year One and All.
It has been very warm here as well, not a speck of snow for Christmas and sunny and high forties on New Years Day.
Beautiful display of blooms this month already. I going for all the red ones,,,,, Todd's Burrageara Living Fire and Phrag Will Chantry, Ursula's Slc Hazel Boyd 'Debbie' WOW factor and Kathie's Slc India Rose Sherwood 'Kiilani' and Oncidia Charlesworthii 'Mishima'. Here, I am with Jim regarding Paphs and ability to get them to bloom I do have a few that will bloom though but I have many times more that don't, so why do I keep buying them????? I guess for the 1 in !0 that will bloom, so Kathy's Paph henryanum hold a special place in my heart as well.
Todd, regarding your stalled henryanum, try sprinkling cinnamon into the crown and misting it down. I read about this in the book "Tropical Slipper Orchids" by Harold Koopowitz as a method he discovered when treating for disease which also seem to stimulate growth. Cinnamon as a growth stimulator works on phragmipedium, paphiopedilum and phalaenopsis. I have tried it mainly on phalaenopsis and and it does work quite often, unfortunately not always. Quite often you will see a little plug of cinnamon being pushed out of the crown just within a few days
other times a couple or 3 weeks
and other times,,,,,, just wait for it
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Good luck, I hope it works for everyone who tries this.
