Flowers for the Holidays: Cymbidiums, Anybody? (OT)
J.E. Shields (Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:46:09 PST)

I have some Cymbidiums in bud, but the flowers are not yet going to be open
for the Christmas-New Year period. I let these sit outdoors through
October and most of November, almost up until the first actual frosts.

Is there any way to get them to be in full flower by late December? Are
there strains of Cymbidium that naturally flower in December?

I have a surfeit of yellow-flowering Cymbidiums. Does anyone want to
trade? I could use red, white or brown. I already have two or three
slightly different pinks, so I have enough of this color. I'm especially
interested in earlier flowering strains as well.

Jim Shields
in chilly, wet Westfield, Indiana'
USA

P.S. Do pseudobulbs count? These are definitely not geophytes.

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