Paph kolopakingii

[Trithor]

This plant suffered particularly badly with my fertilizer fiasco and for a few years has sulked. At long last it appears to have decided to grow. Not an impressive blooming, but considering how it struggled to survive, I have got to cut it some slack and give it a second chance.

 

[dodidoki]

Heartbreaking!!!!Uhhhhh....

 

[troy]

It's excellent !!!! Good job !!!! How bigs the leafspan? How many growths?

 

[AdamD]

It's a beauty! Glad to see it overcame.

 

[Spaph]

Well worth the second chance...wish i had room for one of these!!

 

[17andgrowing]

Nice!

 

[Justin]

Love it.

 

[Parryaw]

Nice! One of those I killed and I am hoping for another chance at growing it.


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[eggshells]

Very nice.

Well worth the second chance...wish i had room for one of these!!

It is worth the space. :clap:

 

[Migrant13]

Well worth the resurrection!

 

[SlipperFan]

It deserves to live.

 

[abax]

It certainly does! I think it's quite beautiful...for a multi. ;>)

 

[Camellkc]

Very nice. My kolo already got the leaf span over 100 cm, and will probably be bloom next year. Very looking forward to seeing my kolo to bloom also.

 

[NYEric]

Good save. I'm sure it will become great.

 

[SlipperKing]

I don't know Gary, looks pretty bad. I think you need to send it to TX to recoop. Right along the side of my other kolos topperis.
Does it aleast have another start coming up? I had a really large, single growth bloom out only to turn its roots up and die on me. Thinking back, I should of cut the spike after I saw the flowers and repot. It probably would be alive today if I had only done that.

 

[Ozpaph]

impressive

 

[Trithor]

It's excellent !!!! Good job !!!! How bigs the leafspan? How many growths?

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)

I don't know Gary, looks pretty bad. I think you need to send it to TX to recoop. Right along the side of my other kolos topperis.
Does it aleast have another start coming up? I had a really large, single growth bloom out only to turn its roots up and die on me. Thinking back, I should of cut the spike after I saw the flowers and repot. It probably would be alive today if I had only done that.

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?)

 

[Rick]

I'm amazed how little these guys need to get so big.

I had a rootless 4" seedling go to 24" plus 3 growth plant in the last 2 years on the starvation rations I feed.

Way to go Gary!

 

[Stone]

A triumph!

 

[chrismende]

Great work, Gary! I love that kind of story. Gives me hope for some of my slowly recovering plants!