Phrag longifolium

[SlipperKing]

I'm amazed by this plant every time it blooms. Always different depending on the time of the year.

 

[eteson]

Great plant Rick!

Unfortunatelly longifolium never has reached the status it deserves:
Always is in flower, plenty of blooms from each spike...
It is always healthy...
It is a great parent when used in breeding...

 

[mchristie]

Nice Phrag! I always have liked Longifolium, but it gets way to big for my under lights growing. Ahh to have a green house....

 

[The Mutant]

Ooh, the other parent of my Green Hornet! I'm going to show this picture so it knows its heritage. Love the colour on the petals.

 

[SlipperKing]

Here its blooming at a different time...petals are outward.

 

[Cheyenne]

Nice Phrag! I always have liked Longifolium, but it gets way to big for my under lights growing. Ahh to have a green house....

That is not always the case. I have a flask of longifolium var gracile and they are SMALL! They are in 2in pots and about blooming size. Some are putting out there second growth and should bloom soon. The plants are only about 4-6 in high. Sorry Rick, you have a very nice longifolium. The color is great. Mine does the same thing the petals are always at a different angle.

 

[SlipperFan]

Nice -- I like the way the petals curve to an "O".

 

[eaborne]

Cool variation. I'm really impressed that the dorsal is nearly vertical!

 

[abax]

Rick, what are your winter temps.? Is it just possible to grow this one with
60F lows? I haven't grown a longifolium in many, many years, but your
blooms look much more colorful than my "old timey" ever did. I like this
one very much.

 

[limuhead]

I am thankful that you posted the pictures of your longifolium. I have a few coming in; a compot of an awarded selfing and a flask of an AM/AOS x a HCC/AOS. When they get big enough they are going to go under my lychee tree. I made a wall out of CMU tiles about 30 feet across under the tree. I trimmed the tree and put the leaves/branches through a chipper/shredder and in the enclosure; about 2 feet deep of mulch. There are Phrags, anthuriums, gingers, vanilla, and cymbidiums in there now. The phrags were runts from a flask I got and just stuck them in the mulch, doing great too. It really is amazing how well stuff does when you naturalize them. Any tips about longifolium would be greatly appreciated...
Fred

 

[SlipperKing]

Rick, what are your winter temps.? Is it just possible to grow this one with
60F lows? I haven't grown a longifolium in many, many years, but your
blooms look much more colorful than my "old timey" ever did. I like this
one very much.

I let my GH get down to the low 50's. I would go lower but the thermostat doesn't allow that.

I am thankful that you posted the pictures of your longifolium. I have a few coming in; a compot of an awarded selfing and a flask of an AM/AOS x a HCC/AOS. When they get big enough they are going to go under my lychee tree. I made a wall out of CMU tiles about 30 feet across under the tree. I trimmed the tree and put the leaves/branches through a chipper/shredder and in the enclosure; about 2 feet deep of mulch. There are Phrags, anthuriums, gingers, vanilla, and cymbidiums in there now. The phrags were runts from a flask I got and just stuck them in the mulch, doing great too. It really is amazing how well stuff does when you naturalize them. Any tips about longifolium would be greatly appreciated...
Fred

Damp/wet and very low fert concentration. I did find out the more Epison's Salts you add to the feed water the more colorful the flowers become to a point when overdosed, the flowers are seriously deformed!