mrhappyrotter
Grand Chupacabra
Cymbidium goeringii × Cymbidium Voodoo
This is one of my favorite Cymbidium hybrids in my collection. It has a lot of great qualities that I value: This is a miniature Cymbidium. The flowers are gorgeous and fragrant. These are easy to grow and bloom in my conditions, and they seem pretty adaptable. Plus, I really enjoy these intersectional hybrids involving species from section Jensoa.
Regarding this specific plant: I suppose I should come up with an appropriate clonal name for this. I purchased this from Tim Culbertson as a selected plant several years ago and still haven't given it a name. This plant has thrown up 4 or 5 spikes since back in the fall! Really putting on a show. It's down to 2 spikes remaining, so I thought I'd go ahead and take some photos. The flowers this time around have much more golden tones to them. In previous bloomings the flowers were more red. If you look at the prior time I posted photos of this plant, you might even think they they are different clones.
The flowers aren't so powerfully fragrant you'll smell them from across the room, but they are decently fragrant. It's like citrusy candy. This plant seems to produce 3 - 5 flowers per spike.
I've grown this plant outdoors spring through fall, protected from mid-day sun. It experiences some pretty extreme summer heat and handles that well. In winter, I keep it in the greenhouse where it endures nighttime lows near freezing from time to time. When it's warm, I water almost daily and fertilize pretty heavily. In the winter, I continue to water sparingly, but I don't feed it.
In contrast, my other cultivar grows indoors year round under lights along with my slipper orchids and other orchid genera. So, very different growing conditions, and both are happy. The indoor grown cultivar tends to only produce 2 flowers per spike (but often has up to 4 buds per spike, it just drops the topmost buds). However, the flowers on the indoor clone are at least twice as large, they are huge in comparison. Color isn't as vibrant, but still nice. And the spikes on the indoor clone tend to remain much shorter so that the flowers are held just above the foliage.
Here's a prior post I made about this plant: https://www.slippertalk.com/threads...cymbidium-goeringii-x-cymbidium-voodoo.56423/
For reference, here's a post about my other cultivar: https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/cymbidium-exeter-carnelian.57207/
This is one of my favorite Cymbidium hybrids in my collection. It has a lot of great qualities that I value: This is a miniature Cymbidium. The flowers are gorgeous and fragrant. These are easy to grow and bloom in my conditions, and they seem pretty adaptable. Plus, I really enjoy these intersectional hybrids involving species from section Jensoa.
Regarding this specific plant: I suppose I should come up with an appropriate clonal name for this. I purchased this from Tim Culbertson as a selected plant several years ago and still haven't given it a name. This plant has thrown up 4 or 5 spikes since back in the fall! Really putting on a show. It's down to 2 spikes remaining, so I thought I'd go ahead and take some photos. The flowers this time around have much more golden tones to them. In previous bloomings the flowers were more red. If you look at the prior time I posted photos of this plant, you might even think they they are different clones.
The flowers aren't so powerfully fragrant you'll smell them from across the room, but they are decently fragrant. It's like citrusy candy. This plant seems to produce 3 - 5 flowers per spike.
I've grown this plant outdoors spring through fall, protected from mid-day sun. It experiences some pretty extreme summer heat and handles that well. In winter, I keep it in the greenhouse where it endures nighttime lows near freezing from time to time. When it's warm, I water almost daily and fertilize pretty heavily. In the winter, I continue to water sparingly, but I don't feed it.
In contrast, my other cultivar grows indoors year round under lights along with my slipper orchids and other orchid genera. So, very different growing conditions, and both are happy. The indoor grown cultivar tends to only produce 2 flowers per spike (but often has up to 4 buds per spike, it just drops the topmost buds). However, the flowers on the indoor clone are at least twice as large, they are huge in comparison. Color isn't as vibrant, but still nice. And the spikes on the indoor clone tend to remain much shorter so that the flowers are held just above the foliage.
Here's a prior post I made about this plant: https://www.slippertalk.com/threads...cymbidium-goeringii-x-cymbidium-voodoo.56423/
For reference, here's a post about my other cultivar: https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/cymbidium-exeter-carnelian.57207/
