Spring flowers

[davefrombc]

It's still a little early for the flowers outside , but here's some of my cymbidium orchids and Meyer lemon in my solarium .

Cymbidium 1

cymbidium 2

Meyer Lemon

[Smitty]

very pretty!

[Eeyore]

Very nice indeed!

[Lulu]

A well needed treat to see flowers. Very, very pretty,,thanks for posting, Dave.

[bcgardener]

so pretty

[Smitty]

dave ...questions on your cymbidium. DH gave me one for valentine's day. it has finished blooming. do I cut back that flower stem or leave it like my other orchids?? is now the time to repot it ?as it is growing out of the pot it is in now. and anything special I should know or do I treat it same as my dendrobium and phalaenopsis?

[davefrombc]

If it is very crowded in the pot, you can repot it .. I've been told it needs to be a bit crowded to encourage blooming. You can remove the spent flower stem.. Treat normally the way you do for your others in the way of watering and fertilizing during its summer growing time .. It will need cool nights in fall and winter to trigger flowers next spring.
My solarium gets down to 6 to 7 C (45 to 50F) at night in winter . You'd have to check online or in an orchid book for recommended temperature ranges for them .. Mine survive in the extremes of the solarium at floor level there.. I have had daytime summer heat in there hit 45C (113 - 115F ) in our hottest days : but fortunately we don't often get that much heat here .. normal daytime temps in there do get to low to mid 30's C (80's F)

[Smitty]

thanks Dave.it will be very happy in the sunroom for the winter then . no heat vents in there so it gets quite cool at night. and I will pot it up 1 pot size not the 2 I was originally going to.