Paph kolopakingii

[SlipperKing]

It had a leaf span of 1,4m prior to its near demise. Now it has flowered on a 800mm span. (It shrank to a single growth that looked more like a seedling, with a leaf span of 15cm)


It has 3 new starts, so hopefully will continue to grow after this flowering. I am aiming to get it back to its original size of 4 growths each Of over 1,2 m and the largest of just over 1,4m. I aim to fertilize one of the blooms to try and hold onto the current growth while the others mature (I did the same for my haynaldianum album, which flowered on a mature growth each season, broke a single new growth, and never clumped. Last season I let it carry a single pod in the hope that it would hold onto the current mature growth. It now has 3 new growths, so perhaps the same treatment next season will force it to clump?)

Interesting theory Gary.

 

[Trithor]

Interesting theory Gary.

Not a theory, ...... Voodoo magic from Africa!
(Africa is a surprising place, today a friend from Malawi told me that he was waiting for his cardiac medication to come down from home. He has a valvular defect resulting most probably from rheumatic fever as a child. The medication is a brew made from a crab, pawpaw root and orange tree roots, with a few more very obnoxious additives. In all my years in Medicine, I never heard of such a treatment. It obviously has some effect as he swears by it)

 

[Lmpgs]

Imagine our reactions after an impressive blooming!!

 

[andre]

Love it! Wish I still had mine. I don't see them for sale here in Canada... Sometimes it worth saving some plants, sometimes it not... In your case you made the right call.


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[neno747]

Very nice!!

 

[Stella]

Amazing beauty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GuRu]

Nice flowers - to be honest the story of you and your plant sounds familiar to me.

 

[Ozpaph]

Not a theory, ...... Voodoo magic from Africa!
(Africa is a surprising place, today a friend from Malawi told me that he was waiting for his cardiac medication to come down from home. He has a valvular defect resulting most probably from rheumatic fever as a child. The medication is a brew made from a crab, pawpaw root and orange tree roots, with a few more very obnoxious additives. In all my years in Medicine, I never heard of such a treatment. It obviously has some effect as he swears by it)

some people also believe in digoxin (a plant extract)..................