{"id":35731,"date":"2020-07-09T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=35731"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:17:49","slug":"thunia-orchids-grow-fast-and-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/thunia-orchids-grow-fast-and-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunia Orchids Grow Fast and Tall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thunia flowers may resemble Cattleyas<\/a>, but they are very different orchids. Thunias grow tall canes that look like cornstalks, and their 5 inch (12.7 cm) blooms hang in clusters from the tops. They may be the fastest growing orchids. New canes can reach up to 4 feet (1.2 m) tall in only a few months.<\/p>\n

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These terrestrials<\/a> are native to the slopes of the Himalayas. Their flowers hang down, don’t open widely, and only last a few weeks, but still put on an impressive show. In winter, Thunias drop their leaves and go dormant<\/a>. In spring, new canes emerge from the bases of old ones. The year-old canes stay green, but don’t grow or bloom. They provide energy for the fresh growth, and should be kept until the following year, when they dry up completely.<\/p>\n

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The middle photo in the last row shows a short, young Thunia resembling a cornstalk or bamboo. In order to bloom, new Thunia growth needs full sun<\/a> in the spring. Too much water<\/a> can rot the small leaves, so keep humidity<\/a> high, but water very lightly. When they reach 6 inches (15 cm) tall, plants should moved into shade, watered regularly, and fertilized<\/a>. As leaves yellow and drop in autumn, reduce water and fertilizer to a minimum. I keep mine cool and dry in winter, watering as seldom as once a month to keep the stalks from shriveling. These pictures feature the Thunia alba plant which I’ve had for many years, except for the final photo, which shows a hybrid<\/a> relative, Thunia Gattonensis, at an orchid show. If you can manage their large size and care demands, these tall orchids are well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thunia flowers may resemble Cattleyas, but they are very different orchids. Thunias grow tall canes that look like cornstalks, and their 5 inch (12.7 cm) blooms hang in clusters from the tops. They may be the fastest growing orchids. New canes can reach up to 4 feet (1.2 m) tall in only a few months. […]<\/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":[9,5,12,3,18,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-fertilizing","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing","category-intermediate-growers","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731","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=35731"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35834,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731\/revisions\/35834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}