One of my old standby's blooming again
Many years ago when I was working for an orchid nursery, the company's breeder was throwing this completely emaciated little orchid plant in the trash. I asked him if he minded if I took it home and he said no. The company had purchased a number of these little plants for a breeding line he was working on, and this one did not have the lip color he was looking for. It had gotten pushed to the back of the bench and knocked out of the pot and had been there for some time. I was not sure I could revive it, but wanted to try.
It took about 2 years to get it back to blooming condition, and it has been a regular bloomer since. It is a small growing plant that sort of wanders about in the pot, but regularly produces 2 to 4 of these little bright yellow blooms with a cute little red spot in the lip.
I believe this is an excellent example of what one can accomplish in orchid breeding with a minimum number of plants if they are well chosen. Although my little plant is a "reject", all the photos I have seen of others are really striking with bright red lips against this bright yellow color, and good flower shape.
This little fellow only has three crosses with 6 plants in its background.
Just thought you might be interested.
Bill
SLC Jungle Beau. I'm not up on all the new "politically correct" names for some orchid plants, so hope my naming is still correct.......☺
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Comments (4)If the plant produced the wood early enough this spring, then the wood could be considered old wood and that is probably why your Proteus is blooming doubles on it. The same can happen to the alpinas and the macropetalasa and a lot of the type IIs which are supposed to bloom on old wood. Wood formed early enough in the current season can have blooms on them in the late summer. The one thing that is curious is that in her book 'Simply Clematis', Edith Malek claims that Piilu requires both old wood and a winter chill to produce double blooms. Now nowhere in the book does she specify what constitutes a winter chill (i.e. how low of a temperature and for how long). Did the weather cool down any in August when you began getting your rain? Perhaps it cooled enough to accomplish the winter chill she refers to. By the way, I am jealous of your rain. None here except for a one hour shower two weeks or so ago and that is it for going on 6 weeks. With temps in the 90s that has further exacerbated the problem. Congrats on your double blooms on Piilu. I have had the plant for 4 years and it has never produced double blooms. Would love to see pictures....See MoreMost of My Clematis are Blooming Again!
Comments (5)I'm having the same thing happen to two of my clematis that were the worst hit by the severe drought and high temperatures we had this past summer. I'm in zone 6b on the east coast and these two clematis had gotten wilt (I thought) and died back to the ground. I left them alone thinking I would prune them hard next spring. Now that it is fall we are getting plenty of rain and they are coming back just like they would if it was spring. I think what has happened is that the heat drove them into dormancy and that may be what happened to yours as well. Now that the weather is cool and wetter (not unlike our spring) they think it's time to grow and bloom again. What I don't know is if this will weaken the plants later on. Of course pruning them will only encourage them so I think we just have to let nature take it's course and enjoy the second set of blooms....See MoreLeave on, hibernate, or standby
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