Paph philippinense

[Wendy]

Finally bloomed for me. I thought I was going to lose it last month when one of the leaves got infected with erwinia. I removed the leaf and sprayed with aspirin water, then packed every possible surface with cinnamon. That seemed to stop it cold. Pretty pleased with four flowers being grown in a window.

 

[troy]

Way to go!!! Any special temp adjustment to induce flowering?

 

[mrhappyrotter]

That's gorgeous. Nice long petals.

My phil seems to spike in the spring, but it's one of the smaller growing & smaller flowered forms (sold to me as laevigatum, not certain on the ID though).

Erwinia is a bummer, glad the natural stuff worked for you.

 

[TyroneGenade]

Good growing.

You give me much hope for my two windosill multies.

 

[SlipperFan]

Good save. This is lovely.

 

[abax]

A truly wonderful multi and it sure looks like cat bait to
me...all those long, dangling temptations.

 

[Dandrobium]

Great job Wendy! Lovely blooms! Do you grow it on the warmer side? I keep mine basically at intermediate temps but it seems slow...

 

[Ozpaph]

would love to see its face

 

[Jaicigy]

Looks great...enjoy!

 

[Justin]

Nice

 

[Guldal]

... one of the leaves got infected with erwinia. I removed the leaf and sprayed with aspirin water, then packed every possible surface with cinnamon. That seemed to stop it cold.

Good job! I've never heard of aspirin water as a treatment method...would you care to share some information about that? Is it a pre-prepared product - or do you make the concoction yourself? And what solution do you use?

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards, Jens

 

[Wendy]

Thank you everyone!

I will try to get a face shot this weekend. I did take some but they didn't turn out well....will do more.

All my plants are kept in a HUGE south facing window in the fall, winter and spring. They go out on the deck late May and come back in the house in September. So they do get a bit of a night cool down in late August/early September.

Here's the link to the aspirin water discussion.... http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25983&highlight=aspirin

 

[GuRu]

It's a very nice one - congrats.

 

[blondie]

Lovely looking blooms I've struggled with erwinia on the phrags, night mare

 

[DIN]

Great one.

 

[Jaicigy]

Looking great...enjoy!

 

[Wendy]

Face view.....

 

[Tom499]

Sweet! I love the stripes.

 

[Ozpaph]

that's nice, especially the petals

 

[emydura]

Looking good Wendy. Mine is opening up at the moment. Ours are flowering at the same time despite being in different hemispheres.