Paph. emersonii

[tcw]

The first bloom.

 

[SlipperFan]

Looks like a first-bloom. It will improve.

 

[Amadeus]

I'm loving the personality on this bloom.

 

[Ozpaph]

the tepals are great.
Better luck next time with the pouch and stem.

 

[Cheyenne]

It has promise. Besides the crooked pouch the flower looks really good. Emersonii is one of my favorite parvi species. Probably because it seems like I will never bloom one. So it is always great to see a bloom. Any growing tips for us?

 

[wjs2nd]

The petals and dorsal look great with nice shape. Thanks for sharing. How long have you had this one?

 

[Erythrone]

Cute!

 

[ericst11]

very nice a hard one to bloom.

 

[SlipperKing]

Cool start!

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

How's the fragrance? I haven't found emersonii hard to bloom...in fact, after delanatii, it's the easiest parvi...way easier than armeniacum, micranthum, or malipoense (which has never even spiked for me). It is very slow growing, reluctant to make new growths, and for me, has a very nasty habit of dying about a year or so after blooming. I've always treated mine like malipoense and micranthum...cool (once mature) and fairly dry in winter, shaded and well watered in summer. I give micranthum somewhat more light in winter, but keep emersonii and malipoense relatively shaded. However, unlike its cousins, after it has grown to a certain size, it blooms easily enough. Like a phrag, the blooms continue to grow a little after opening. But they only last about 2 weeks.

 

[tcw]

How's the fragrance? I haven't found emersonii hard to bloom...in fact, after delanatii, it's the easiest parvi...way easier than armeniacum, micranthum, or malipoense (which has never even spiked for me). It is very slow growing, reluctant to make new growths, and for me, has a very nasty habit of dying about a year or so after blooming. I've always treated mine like malipoense and micranthum...cool (once mature) and fairly dry in winter, shaded and well watered in summer. I give micranthum somewhat more light in winter, but keep emersonii and malipoense relatively shaded. However, unlike its cousins, after it has grown to a certain size, it blooms easily enough. Like a phrag, the blooms continue to grow a little after opening. But they only last about 2 weeks.

Hard for me to describe its fascinating aroma. I planted it for more than six years before blooming.

 

[ericst11]

Eric i have two nice blooming size plants and had no luck so far. I also have seedlings from orchid in and they were really small but have grown a bunch but still to small. Maybe it the fact that it seems seedlings that i grow bloom for me and mature plants i buy tend to sulk . maybe they need to get acclimated from other growers environment.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

I think the main problem with emersonii is that their vegetative growth is so damn slow. My seedlings (all I have now) are growing very steadily....but at the rate they are growing, it will be at least 3 years before they can bloom.

 

[NYEric]

Light issues?
Thanks for sharing this difficult to grow and bloom plant.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

My seedlings (one came from Tom Kalina 2 years ago) spend the summers outdoors and the rest of the year under lights. Same shelf as my brachy's. Once they are large enough, they will spend winters in my cool room (southern facing glass wall), along with malipoense, micranthum, and armeniacum....same place where my previous emersonii's bloomed.