{"id":266,"date":"2008-11-22T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/cymbidium-season\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T02:11:07","slug":"cymbidium-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/22\/cymbidium-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cymbidium Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cymbidium.html\">Cymbidiums<\/a> are popular orchids, and here on the California coast, Cymbidium blooming season has started. This yellow one, possibly Cymbidium Golden Elf &#8216;Sundust,&#8217; is a hybrid of Cymbidium ensifolium, which has traditionally been grown in China, Korea, and Japan for centuries.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Yellow Cymbidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Cymbidium flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cymbidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cymbidium flower side view\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flower side view\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To grow these beauties with their sweet, richly scented flowers, you need to provide an environment where the nighttime temperature drops 15-20 F (8-11 C) every night. Without these nightly temperature drops, these Cymbidiums won&#8217;t form flower spikes. Otherwise, these are easy to grow with bright light, regular water, and regular fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cymbidium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Cymbidium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cymbidium_yellow_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Cymbidium flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even when not in bloom, Cymbidiums are beautiful plants, with long, graceful, arching leaves. Although my variety has solid green leaves, some Chinese Cymbidiums have variegated leaves, with stripes or spots of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cymbidiums are popular orchids, and here on the California coast, Cymbidium blooming season has started. This yellow one, possibly Cymbidium Golden Elf &#8216;Sundust,&#8217; is a hybrid of Cymbidium ensifolium, which has traditionally been grown in China, Korea, and Japan for centuries. To grow these beauties with their sweet, richly scented flowers, you need to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,12,3,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-growers","category-fertilizing","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}