Hello guys,

First of all, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! :Party:

Well, here is my question: among those three Cyps, what is the "easiest" to grow and what is the one with the biggest flowers and/or leaves?

Just to make a choice! ;)

Thank you in advance and best regads.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you too!

happy happy holiday:Party::Party::Party:

Merry Christmas to you also! I do not know which one would be the best though.

I dont know the answer but like to wish you happy holiday greetings!

Hello guys,

First of all, I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! :Party:

Well, here is my question: among those three Cyps, what is the "easiest" to grow and what is the one with the biggest flowers and/or leaves?

Just to make a choice! ;)

Thank you in advance and best regads.

I've never grown any of them, but my guess based on information I've gleaned from various growers, the order from easiest to hardest would be fargesii, lichiangense/lentiginosum (equal). Of course they all are difficult. Fargesii is less touchy than the other spotted leaf types about winter wetness, hence its "easy" status. All are smallish plants and the flower size should be nearly the same for all.

Good luck growing them. If you get lab propagated stuff you should have a shot, but the wild stuff will not likely make it past a couple seasons.

Hello all,

thank you very much Tom for your answer and you all for the greetings! :Party:

Best regards.

Hello all again,

could please specify if those three Cyps (fargesii, lentiginosum and lichiangense) are frost resistant during their rest period in winter like non-spotted Cyps and what minimum temperature they can resist without damage then?

In advance thank you very much. :thumbsup:

Best regards.

I think those Cyps are not so difficult as most people mean. They are rare and so difficult.
It is difficult to grow them when the rhizomes (roots) are damaged, they always have to produce new (white) roots. You always have to remove rotten
leaves immediately! I grow them cool and shaddy under a tree (pinus from the Austrian Alps). They start to grow very late and they are hardy.

Hans

Hi Hans welcome to the slipper orchid forum!

Thank you for the welcome. I live in Austria and my garden is in the Northern Calceolus Alps in Upper Austria (Salzkammergut, Ebensee). I grow a lot of Cyps and Cypripedium calceolus is widespreaded there in the wild.

Hans

Thank you for the welcome. I live in Austria and my garden is in the Northern Calceolus Alps in Upper Austria (Salzkammergut, Ebensee). I grow a lot of Cyps and Cypripedium calceolus is widespreaded there in the wild.

Hans

That sounds like a beautiful place to live in!

Here are some pics

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http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4483/dscf3660fe6.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf3660fe6.jpg)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5519/dscf6007hu0.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf6007hu0.jpg)

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7172/dscf5859fj0.th.jpg (http://img255.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf5859fj0.jpg)

Hans

very nice pretty:heart::heart::heart:ty

Wow really neat looking are those cyp blooms? oh and welcome!

They are all such beauties thank you for sharing them with us!

They all look great and very nice pictures!

Beautiful plants and pictures!

Thanks for sharing!

Very lovely Hans! How long have you had them established?

In time as more plants are micropropagated these spotted leaf species will become easier to grow. Are you trying to grow them from seed as well?

Wow...awesome plants:cool:

These Cyps have strong rhizomes and strong / long roots. If you buy such a Cyp you will often get plants with cutten or demaged roots. As I have seen then you have to wait so 2-3 years and they will flower again. In the first year the plant will bring you flowers but then most roots will die.
If you keep them too dry they will die!! So avoid soft leaves!! Remove rooten leaves or parts of rotten leaves and then use a fungi there!!
My garden is very wet, we have so 2000mm rain.
The last year my friend has taken seeds and we try to grow them from seed. This is much easier!

Hans

Beautiful Cyps, Hans and welcome to the Slipper Orchid Forum!

Welcome, Johannes! :welcome:
Your Cyps look absolutely wonderful!

Hello Hans,

thank you for your answer and welcome to the forum! Your plants look absolutely fantastic! I think that I will have some questions for you in the coming months because I already received one lichiangense (its bud rotted but I used a fungicide and keep my fingers crossed to save it) and will receive another one in the next days! :D

What other species do you grow? I see that your favourite Cyp is calceolus. Do you also have its green form?

Best regards.

Hallo Mafate,

the Cypripedium calceolus which grow near my house are very different. That is very unusually. They are very tall (nearly 1m) or very small, some have pure yellow shoes or with green (depends on the weather!). Petals are very different (black, brown, reddish,...). If it is interesting for you I could post some pics. (Where should I post them?)

I grow the following Cyps and some hybrids, too (I think these are not all):
calceolus, reginae, guttatum, different macranthos, tibeticum, mandchuricum, different flavum, pubescens, parviflorum, different x ventricosum, debile, wardii, palangshanense, franchetii, froschii, kentuckiense, Rascal, reginae x margaritaceum, micranthum, henryi, japonicum, formosanum, bardolphianum, plectrochilon, lichiangense, fasciolatum, Maria Handlbauer, reginae x acaule, different reginae x flavum,...

Best wishes
Hans

If it is interesting for you I could post some pics. (Where should I post them?)

Hans, please do post pics of whatever you have! The appropriate place is over on the Cypripedium Photo Gallery. We all look forward to see any of your plants.

Thanks,

Tom

Hans you have a wonderful collection of Cyp plants and I would love to see pictures of them. Please post more pictures of your Cyps thank you!

Hello Hans, thank you for your answer. Yes, please, post some pics! :cool: