But several tomorrow night!
One bloom tonite
Very nice, Tropicman! Looks like you've got one happy Oxypetalum there. I hope you will post another photo when more of those buds open tonight!
Thanks
I sure hope too!
What a beautiful bloom! Please do post more! I have to see those beautiful blooms somewhere cause I'm sure not seeing them on my Oxypetalum or Strictum!
That one was so fragrant,it filled the greenhouse 16x38 ,I smelled it when I first entered the greenhouse from the backdoor of the house.
I haven't had blooms on my E. oxypetalum yet either. I can't wait for it to bloom.
I do have a large E. hookeri (strictum) that is really old: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2100/ I've had the plant for more than 30 years and I finally got to see the blooms for the first time a few weeks ago!
This website: http://www.ecology.org/orchids/index5.html#Epis says the E. hookeri (syn. strictum) blooms open @ 800 p.m. and the blooms last until noon the next day. I find that not to be the case with my plant. It is a night bloomer, but the blooms on mine don't open until around 11:00 p.m. and are wilted and spent by daybreak!
I have heard that Oxypetalum (Queen of the Night) is very fragrant. I sure hope to see some blooms on mine next year. I just repotted it recently and put it on a trellis.
Mine was open around 8pm and still open just a little bit right now.
The buds are plumbed and ready to open tonite!
They are beautiful. I'd definitely have to stay up to watch them. Make more coffee!
Coffee's on,and here's what they looked like a hour ago.
Feast your eyes upon this!!!!!
MMMMmmmmm!
Smells wonderful!
Oh my goodness ... I bet it smells fantastic and it sure is a feast for the eyes! Just Beautiful!
Yes it was, and I enjoyed it !
That was breathtaking. I can't wait to stay up all night watching mine bloom like that. Thanks for sharing your pics. Linda
Your welcome!
Thats an awsome Ceareaus, never seen one with that many flowers at one time. I have three different colors, i am told. They have been pot bound for almost two years now and Idont dare repot it or I will never get a bloom... really wish I had put them in a larger pot.
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Hopefully yours will bloom this winter!
Beautiful!!!!! Do you have a close up? I think this may not be a epi oxy the flowers look more like Epiphyllum caudatum see www.gotepis.com/cart/cuttings/all/eppiphyllum caudatum/prod_479html or go to www.gotepis.com/cart and look at the white epis.
Of course I could be wrong but it just does not look like epi oxy I think it is a much prettier flower that the epi oxy.
Sandy the epi not.
I've been searching for Epi caudatum and this is the only photo I found: http://gotepis.com/cart/cuttings/all/epiphyllum-caudatum/prod_479.html It doesn't show foliage, just the bloom. It does appear to be a smaller bloom than the E. Oxypetalum.
Darn computer. I just get it back for the shop. Yes that is the one, if you look close you can see the leaves. there are others white night bloomers.
I think it is strictum,I got this one from Clare In Camarillo Cailf.couple yrs back.
Next summer if I can remember I would like a piece of it. I have all I can handle right now.
Sandy the epi nut
Your more than welcome!
This plant is hanging down leaves into a pond 6 ft below the plant itself,
The humidity from the pond has sent this plant in a growing craze!
Hummm! make note to self---add pond to green house plans!!!!!!!!!!
Darn only problem with that would be keeping the skeeters and that darn large furry demon child out of the pond. Oh well something to keep my tiny brain cells working.
Sandy the epi nut
Tropicman: I don't think your plant is E. Strictum. I have Epiphyllum Hookeri (Syn. Strictum) and it has an entirely different growth habit than yours. Here's the Plant Files listings for comparison: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/216964/
And, at this site: http://www.ecology.org/tropicals/ if you scroll down to E. Hookeri and farther down the page to E. Strictum you can see how they differ from your plant.
Took a while but I finally found,the identity in back postings
and the winner is,,,Epiphyllum pumilum!!!!
Great!!!!!!!
Sandy the epi nut
I'm so glad you found the correct ID on your beautiful plant! You should consider uploading your photo's to Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/130592/
It is already in there,by Clare,in which is where I got my cutting from!
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/130592/
Very very nice.
Tropicman, your plant is awesome! What do you use for potting medium? I'd love to grow an epi with that many blooms. Of course, I suppose I have to have the plant for more than a couple of months for that to happen. :)
Sarah (epi newbie)
I use sta green potting mix,I then add more sand,to give some weight to help hold the plant in it's pot.
I have a couple plants,7 yrs old,that has never bloomed yet,these are huge plants,and weigh over a 100 lbs.
Tropicman where those plants seedlings or grown from cuttings? I learned after I started growing seeds that it takes 7 or more years for them to bloom.Darn it.
Sandy the epi nut
Patience Sandy, All good things come to those who wait............ I am learning that too................... It is trying to get the better of me too. Linda
Yes it is hard to wait and it looks like I am getting to old to breed epis.
I hope my seedlings are not like the first yellow. The breeder luckly had a rule that he did not cull any plant until it had bloomed the first time. All the seedlings except one bloomed and they where red. That one seedling did not bloom for 20 years but when it did it was the first yellow and it bloomed every year after that. So I guess I will have to wait ----thrilling my thumbs.
Sandy the epi nut
Cuttings,I got from a lady from Vietnam,who brought them to American when she came.
I have them growing in coconut coir in 14inch hanging baskets.
I have been holding back fertilizer from them for they are so huge now,I'm trying to slow down there growth,for I can longer no lift them back up on there hanging hook,I use to move them outside for the summer,but they are just to big to move any longer..
What are/where you feeding them?
Was using peters 20-20-20,I think I spread a little granular fertilizer in there this spring,but held back on the peters this year.I have them hanging over the pond in the greenhouse for humidity,and I don't water them as much as I use to either.
That might be to high. Three sites that I go to recommended 10-10-10 each month except Dec, Jan. and Feb when you use 0-10-10 or non at all. I do not fertilize each moth as I put a little compost in the pot. They may bloom for you next year.
Sandy the epi nut
I grow so many tropicals ,that I decided years ago to find a fertilizer that I can just use on all my plants.
So far it has worked,other epi's bloom using the peters,just these I got from the lady from
Vietnam has been stubborn not wanting to flower,there names are Paradise,InAugeration
Frances C .