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Plant foliage usually will not freeze at 27 degrees if the weather includes some moisture and air movement.
cymbidium new flower spike. Spikes appear during late summer and early autumn. Cymbidiums can tolerate considerable summer heart and winter chill. Flower spikes which are soft and tender will suffer damage if exposed.
Cymbidium flowers vary from 1cm to over 15cm across with up to 50 blooms to the raceme spike of colours in cymbidiums now varies from deep chocolates through to spectacular yellows gold and all the shades of reds and browns as well as every hue. Cymbidium orchids Cymbidium spp are much more cold-tolerant than many common species of orchids. In the image below I am trimming the flower spike of my Cymbidium.
But I am not sure if they are real flower spikes or new growth. Within 8-10 days the flowers started to fall off and then 1-3 leaves per day was lost. To flower well the plants need a distinct temperature drop between day and night during mid- to late summer.
We expect to see each leaf be at least as big as the leaf before it and hope to see at least one or two new leaves per year. Fertilizer at the proper time to help cymbidiums flower. Plus their long thin.
After the flowers fall off the stem starts to die the stalk is ready to be cut at the base. Save to My scrapbook cymbidium orchid at RHS garden Wisley. Dec 09 2020 Cymbidium flower emerges from a spike.
As this orchid blooms annually I will have to wait until next year for more flower spikes to grow. The next bloom spike on a monopodial orchid comes from the base at the underside of a leaf usually 2 or 3 leaves down from the newest leaf and on the opposite side as the prior bloom spike. You should wait to stake a new growth until you see that it is in fact a flower spike and is as tall as the stake itself.