hey RCB ! check out your Gongora !!!

[orchids4me]

Hi Renee, everyone
This is a Gongora Rcb sent me a while back. It was a bit battered (by bugs) follage when she sent it over my way it had one new growth that was starting now it has another one now. It only let's me post one pic at a time but here's some pics of it I think it likes my conditions here

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Another shot

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Inner growth area

[pikkumyy]

ooh very cool, i can't wait to see it when it blooms,
so are gongora related to stanhopea?

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The older growth cleaned up after some areas dried up trimmed it up. Back side of the plant.

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Last shot of the back side of old growth cleaned up.

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Originally Posted by pikkumyy

ooh very cool, i can't wait to see it when it blooms,
so are gongora related to stanhopea?

I can't wait until it blooms also . I don't know if it bloomed for rcb or not it didn't have a tag so it will be a surprise bloom (what it looks like). I'm also new to these I hadn't researched if they are in the same alliance as the Stanhopeas but the leave on the gongora seem much wider than my young Stanhopeas. Maybe someone can't tell us both if they are in the same alliance or not. I didn't even think of that but I I wasn't thinking they were.

[rcb]

Em - it's growing well for you.

yes, it blooms every spring for me (the main plant). Here's a link with a pic from before it got so big I broke it up into pieces - which you got one of them.

http://www.orchidgeeks.com/forum/orc...ew-blooms.html

Sorry, I didn't include a tag, it's name is Gongora grossa.

[lmartiny]

It looks very happy indeed. I struggle with the foliage on mine. I did not get a bloom last year on mine, but did the year before. It was cool, but short lived.