Paph. tigrinum

[silence882]

Hi All,

This tigrinum is a first bloom from a flask I bought from Hengduan 6 years ago. The flask had 6 seedlings in it. 1 sickly one died almost immediately and I lost another to crown rot along the way. They're all BS now and 1 other in is low spike. The other 2 don't look like they'll be blooming this year.

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--Stephen

 

[GuRu]

Wow, I would say this is a very good one, Stephen. Hopefully the next one, which is in spike now, will be such a beauty too. Good luck.

 

[troy]

Congrats on the acheivement!! It looks very nice!!

 

[Hakone]

Congrats

 

[Tony]

Nicely done.

 

[kiwi]

Nice. Great dorsal

 

[SlipperKing]

Impressive Stephen.

 

[Guldal]

WAUW....what a stunner: glorious dorsal and extremely good colours... look at that pouch and those spectacular sepals! Congrats!

 

[DrLeslieEe]

What a journey during the six years! I applaud your growing techniques and patience. Well done.

Good colors on this flower. Form and size will improve when plant is stronger and multi-growth.

 

[Djthomp28]

Truly lovely!

 

[silence882]

Thanks, everyone! I'm really glad I stuck this out

 

[Ozpaph]

single growth still. Hoping for a new shoot soon?

 

[silence882]

single growth still. Hoping for a new shoot soon?

It's got a small new growth. You can just see it in the second pic popping up behind the newest leaf in the first growth.

 

[setaylien]

Hi All,

This tigrinum is a first bloom from a flask I bought from Hengduan 6 years ago. The flask had 6 seedlings in it. 1 sickly one died almost immediately and I lost another to crown rot along the way. They're all BS now and 1 other in is low spike. The other 2 don't look like they'll be blooming this year.

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--Stephen

Great flower but too big for such a young plant to maintain for long: you could lose it. I would cut the flower right now.

 

[silence882]

Great flower but too big for such a young plant to maintain for long: you could lose it. I would cut the flower right now.

The flower is leaning forward, so it's making the plant look a lot smaller than it really is.

 

[Justin]

This is super awesome. Great growing. I am missing some of these in my collection!

 

[Don I]

Excellent.
Don

 

[silence882]

#2 has bloomed! Not quite as nice as #1, but still lovely. And #3 seems to be in very low spike. So good news all around. Probably only going to keep 1 or 2 when all is said and done, but it's good to have choices.

--Stephen

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Look at those bros hanging out... a sister on the way!

 

[Marco]

Congrats! I love this species....Maybe one day I will give it another go.