My entire orchid growing history has been in coastal California, and since the early 70s the coast of Northern California. I've always wanted to grow Odontoglossum, as the conditions here are quite amenable for the cool growing species and hybrids. The San Francisco bay area has some work famous breeders, so last January I got a flask of Bob Hamilton's breeding, a tetraploid hybrid. The came out of flask on January 17, 2024. I have been continually surprised how fast they have grown. But this really was not expected - this last Wednesday one started to flower. 399 days out of flask. With three others in spike.
Small flowers and only a few, but a view if you will into what the future holds for these plants, some of which will be going into 6" pots next month.
One never knows with flasks. This was a great surprise.
Small flowers and only a few, but a view if you will into what the future holds for these plants, some of which will be going into 6" pots next month.
One never knows with flasks. This was a great surprise.
