Hello Jean!
Jim, the alba Psychopsis is really growing on me, I like the color. I always thought in this case I might prefer the regular form, but this one is very nice. I always love Big George, the blue is gorgeous!
Bc Binosa already!? Mine is months away from blooming. And your Ctna Maui Maid X is great!
I have been watching and tapping my foot for weeks now on the Habenaria medusa producing buds and opening slowly, very slowly!
There are still a couple of buds to go but don't think the picture will improve that much. Besides, I like to show what the buds look like too - just before popping.
I hope you don't mind if I share some observation regarding the these Habenaria corms and their "activation" to grow.
Here is my story:
Last year I bought a small pot with the plant already in growth (at the SEPOS from Parkside) and I still had a dormant corm of Habenaria medusa from J&L laying around which didn't say peep. On a whim I placed last Summer this dormant corm into the same pot as the growing Parkside plant. Low and behold this one started to grow too and actually budded. If you were to look at my pictures from last year, the J&L flowers lagged a bit behind, but they did bloom!! There is a smaller spike.
I do wonder, was this soil simply more suitable than other mediums we stick these corm into. Does the soil need a certain ingredient for the corm to wake up? Sort of in the way Orchid seedlings need their special fungus. There is surely more going on here than we think. Just thinking of our stands of terrestrial Orchids at our place in Pennsy - some years we see dozens of a certain Orchid, not much in other years. Weather is probably only part of the story?
Now if I were to buy another medusa ( or any other corm of a terrestrial Orchid) I would try to get one in active growth!!
Anyway here is now my little pot/spikes of Habenaria medusa
