Paphiopedilum malipoense

[HairBear73]

First bloom for this, waited for an extraordinary length of time as is typical of this one I believe but happy with the result

 

[mrhappyrotter]

Worth the wait, which is how I feel about pretty much every P. malipoense. Very lovely blooms. Congrats.

 

[Markhamite]

Wonderful.

 

[Djthomp28]

Congrats on the bloom. I enjoy seeing these. I have one that has spiked and blasted one year. Only to spike at open very oddly the next.

Thanks for posting your. Clearly I will not be enjoying mine for a while.

 

[Don I]

Nice.
Don

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Mine was in spike for 5 months lol
Nice flower there...

 

[Rockbend]

Here in the south US, P. malipoense is 'famous' for putting up spikes in August/September that never open flowers. About 3 months later the buds crash and the spike dies. Maybe 1 out of 10 will open a flower.

Usually only the spikes that come up in December actually open their buds

 

[gego]

We moved to Va last Aug and my malipoense spiked around Oct and just slowly developed its bud only to die by Jan. I thought I made a mistake of fertilizing it,, I wonder if anyone was succesful by not feeding at all when spike and bud was developing.

 

[cnycharles]

Nice flower, and exceptional image quality!

 

[HairBear73]

Thanks everyone, and I havent fertilised mine while the bud and spike has been developing, I read somewhere on ST that it reduces the length of time the bloom lasts so I erred on the side of caution.

 

[SlipperKing]

I don't know if there is anything to this but I'll tell the story any ways.
I had two plants spike a few years back. One had plenty of overhead space to grow a tall spike. The other not so. After the one with no head room got up about 10 inches, I moved it to different spot. Big mistake, blasted in a couple of weeks. The other went on to bloom

 

[Tony]

Mine spiked in May and opened in December last year, I didn't make any changes to my watering or fert routine.