Finally this Paph. callosum decide to produce a flower spike. I got this plant while i was still living in Pasir Ris. Although the plant could survive, the environment was a bit warmer at Pasir Ris so the plant aborted the flower spike after producing it. This happened on 2 occassions. It was frustrating to see the flower spike elongate, the bud slowly form, then dries up and dies.
This is the first time that it is spiking in the new environment so i am keeping my fingers crossed. If it can succeed this time, my conclusion would be the temperature.
This picture was taken about 2 weeks ago so the bud is bigger and longer now. I squeeze two different types of callosums into the same pot. Somehow they do better together than on their own. Don't know why but this is my observation.
This plant is easily 5 to 8 years old.
I know it looks a bit odd cos if 8 years old it should be a huge plant now. The same goes for my concolor alba. It should be a huge plant if it was grown commercially. The problem with me is that i hardly give any fertilizer and many of my plants got diseased and if they managed to survive, they are reduced to a fraction of their original size and everything starts again.
One of my good concolor recently contracted some bacteria rot and the entire pot with 4 huge growths is now reduced to only one growth. I am now putting it in quarantine away from the rest. So that's how my 10-year old plant ends up with only one pathetic growth.
Maybe i should have divided the plant while it was still big and healthy. But i am always reluctant to disturb a well growing and flowering plant for fear of killing it unintentionally.
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