phrag fischeri plant size question

[Hien]

I put this question in another post but I don't think anyone see it , so I post it again in this new thread to ask about the size of the blooming size of fischeri ?
I just bought a blooming size fischeri from Glen, the leaf span is 8 inch (4 inch per leaf) x 1 inch leaf width , I also bought another BS fischeri from a different vendor and the plant has leaf span of 18 inch (9 inch per leaf) x 1-1/2" leaf width .
-do the plants from this species vary so much in plant size?
-some vendors mention this is a mini phrag . on Seattle orchids the photo looks like a tiny plant with a size of the flower the same as the plant.
http://www.seattleorchid.com/SearchR...arch=fischerii
I am totally confused.
-anyone who has this species, could you let me know about the size of the plant .

thanks

 

[abax]

I have a fischeri and it appears to be a much smaller plant
than, say schlimii for instance. I haven't done any measuring, but the over all look of fischeri is a more
delicate looking plant. Both plants are unbloomed, but
approximately the same stage of development. I realize
that's not much help, but the best I can do. Neither is a
seedling.

 

[JeanLux]

See my plant here: http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38637

Jean

 

[Hien]

See my plant here: http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=38637

Jean

Would you measure the leaf size (one leaf) for me , in centimeter (metric system is ok)

thanks

 

[JeanLux]

Would you measure the leaf size (one leaf) for me , in centimeter (metric system is ok)

thanks

+/- 25 cm! Jean

 

[Hien]

+/- 25 cm! Jean

Merci beaucoup pour votre reponse, Jean
25 cm c'est la dimension de longueur d'une seule feuille , n'est-ce pas?

 

[JeanLux]

Merci beaucoup pour votre reponse, Jean
25 cm c'est la dimension de longueur d'une seule feuille , n'est-ce pas?

Exact!! Jean

 

[Hien]

Exact!! Jean

merci bien

 

[Rick]

All my early plants (high K and lots of oyster shell) bloomed and died as small plants under 15 cm across.

I reloaded a few years ago with a couple of new seedlings from Orchids Limited.

Each new growth keeps getting bigger. So first blooming growth at roughly 18 cm but the newest (3rd) growth bloomed at almost 30cm across. The 4th growth is coming on pretty fast. So we'll see if it gets even bigger than the last one.

 

[Hien]

All my early plants (high K and lots of oyster shell) bloomed and died as small plants under 15 cm across.

I reloaded a few years ago with a couple of new seedlings from Orchids Limited.

Each new growth keeps getting bigger. So first blooming growth at roughly 18 cm but the newest (3rd) growth bloomed at almost 30cm across. The 4th growth is coming on pretty fast. So we'll see if it gets even bigger than the last one.

I think I understand this species now from what all of you described.
15 cm is about 6 inch from leaf tip to the opposite tip ( that is some what matching the photo on Seattle orchids website) . That means the species is precocious in blooming , however the strength is not there and it exhausts itself in blooming thus dies afterward (that is why its listed Blooming size is small) But the full potential is a much larger, twice the size of 6 inch at least for each leaf , 1 foot total plant . and in the case of Jean's plant, it has (25 cm) 10 inch for one leaf , 20 inch total plant .

Thanks everyone, I should concentrate on grow it first and not wish for it to be a fast blooming

 

[Rick]

Yes

After my early experience I was shocked as to how fast and big this plant can grow when it gets the right conditions.

Also when my early plants were blooming I would get a high percent of blasting or screwed up flowers. Often missing the staminode. At the time everyone said it was inbreeding depression since all the fischeri came from a single imported plant at OL.

My big plant has very few problems producing normal blooms, and comes from OL.

 

[NYEric]

Thanks everyone, I should concentrate on grow it first and not wish for it to be a fast blooming

Yes!

 

[dodidoki]

I have some fischeriis and one andreettae, they grow fairly big, cca. 25-30 cm LS. When I got it they were more compact.

 

[dodidoki]

Here are mine: andreettae was in bud last year, blasted, fischerii was in bloom. All of was fairly smaller in stem than now.Furthermore andreettae is twice in size in comparison with these ones plants, what I got from Peruflora sveral times. ( I have no luck with this, only one plant survived the shipping, this one, other ones dies, I got 4 dead plants all...)

 

[dodidoki]

Fischerii:

 

[Hien]

thanks for posting the photos