Cymbidium ensifolium 'Mayor's Red' (市长红), and a short discussion on East Asian Cymbidiums, June 2024

[@guaposaligna2758]

These have such an elegant scent! My partner has one! I love the way it looks even when not in bloom too! Like tall grass

[@nghiepdam2061]

Great plant. Hope you will give us more videos later with information how to keep them growing and flowering. Thanks.

[@thegardeningbotanist]

Thank you! Sounds good! So far it seems warmth, bright indirect sun, and nicely moist but not damp potting media really helps! This cultivar really doesn't seem too picky

[@keirenle]

Bought a first one today. Wish me luck. I love chinese cymbidium for being small and fragrance

[@thegardeningbotanist]

Which species/variety did you get? You got this! They are so versatile, and I'm surprised they aren't more popular as house plants!

[@nghiepdam2061]

The media in the pot for Asian cymbidiums are very important to keep the plants from root rots due to over watering. I would like to hear how you prepare the mixture for this plant having more pseudo bulbs and flower spikes.

[@thegardeningbotanist]

I actually bought this one before it got some of the new growth and it's still in the pot it came with, so I can't take full credit for everything :). They potted it in coarse bark and charcoal mostly. I do have one other C. ensifolium (two new growths on two pseudobulbs) and one C. goeringii (four new growths on three pseudobulbs) that I got earlier in March (I think?) bareroot. I have them in just a mixture of bark, gravel, and some those clay ball things (leftover from Cattleya when I mounted my Catts.) I've also seen people using finer barks or some other material (I found kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3XLlIGbnpWNn9k informative). IMO they actually aren't too picky (knock on wood) as long as the watering works well with the substrate (finer bark with less frequent watering, coarser material with more watering in plastic pots, etc). Also, the variety matters a lot. The one in this video is known to be easy to grow new pseudobulbs and flower spikes, so that probably also played a big role. I'm still waiting for my C. goeringii to show some flower spike though, which it's seeming less likely until next year...