Cycnoches cooperi is native to Peru. This epiphytic orchid was found in the department of San Martín, in a humid tropical forest, at an altitude of about 500 m, at a distance of 15 km from the road from Tarapoto to Yurimaguas...
Cycnoches cooperi also called as Cooper's Cycnoches, Cycnoches cooperi subsp. ayacuchoensis, Cycnoches cooperi var. villenae, Cycnoches pentadactylon var. cooperi, is a species of the genus Cycnoches. This species was described by Robert Allen Rolfe in 1913.
IDENTIFY CYNOCHES COOPERI
Cycnoches cooperi is native to Peru. This epiphytic orchid was found in the department of San Martín, in a humid tropical forest, at an altitude of about 500 m, at a distance of 15 km from the road from Tarapoto to Yurimaguas.
It is a small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte, which reaching up to 40 cm tall, with an ovoid-cylindric, 20 cm long pseudobulb concealed by deciduous, leaf bearing sheaths and has lanceolate, channeled, acuminate, 20-35 cm long and 7 cm wide leaves that graduate in size from the base.
Cooper's Cycnoches blooms on an axillary, pendant, 25 cm long, few to many flowered, racemose, inflorescence with several close, tubular bracts and small ovate, acute, brown floral bracts that are shorter than the ovary, carrying showy, fleshy, chocolate scented flowers arising from near the apex of the newly matured, leafy pseudobulb. The flowers are 9 cm in diameter. The male flowers are rather large, large and fragrant. They are mahogany-brown or coffee-brown in color with whitish side lobes of the lip and matte-purple stump. The female flowers have petals of the outer dark coffee-brown, the petals of the inner whiff of a slightly lighter color with a yellow base, a yellow lip with a light brown edge and a purple stump.
CYNOCHES COOPERI CARE AND CULTURE
Cultural information should only be used as a guide, and should be to be adapted to suit you. Your physical location; where you grow your plants, how much time you have to devote to their care, and many other factors, will need to be taken into account. Only then can you decide on the cultural methods that best suit you and your plants.
Light:
Cycnoches cooperi needs a light level of 20000-30000 lux. The light should be filtered or dispersed, and the plants should not be exposed to direct sunlight in the afternoon hours. Strong air movement should be ensured all the time. This species react in different ways to growing at different levels of light. They can be grown at as low as 10000 lux, or at a high level, reaching even 45000 lux. However, the sex of the flowers produced depends on the intensity of light in the crop. At low light, female flowers arise, and at high level, male flowers. Sometimes there are both male and female flowers on one inflorescence, but generally on each inflorescence there are flowers of only one sex.
Temperature:
It is a thermophilic plant. The average daytime temperature is 31-32 ° C throughout the year and the average night temperature is 19-21 ° C, with a daily amplitude of 10-13 ° C.
Humidity:
Cooper's Cycnoches needs the humidity of around 80% or more, throughout the year.
Substrate, growing media and repotting:
Cycnoches cooperi can be grown on a cork or hardwood pads, provided that high humidity and watering can be ensured at least once a day. In the case of such fixed plants, during the dry and hot summer weather it may be necessary to water several times a day.
These plants can also be grown in clay or plastic pots filled with a substrate with excellent drainage and ensuring good aeration around the roots. When the plant goes into a dormant state, it is usually recommended to remove it from the pot, cut the roots with a sterilized tool and place a group of pseudobulbs in an empty pot for the entire period of winter drought. When new growths appear in the spring, the plant should be planted in a pot just larger enough to fit a group of pseudobulbs and there was room for growths of one year. These plants seem to grow better when they are repotted every year.
Watering:
Rainfall is low to moderate throughout the year, with a slightly drier period in winter. The cultivated plants should be watered quite often during active growth, but excellent drainage should be ensured, and the roots must dry fast after watering. When new growths reach maturity in the autumn, the amount of water should be reduced.
Fertilizer:
During the active growth, the plants should be fertilized every week 1/4-1/2 of the recommended dose of fertilizer for orchids. From spring to mid-summer, you can use fertilizer enriched with nitrogen, then switching to phosphorus-enriched fertilizer in late summer and autumn.
Rest period:
In winter, dry resting is required and growers these plants are very sensitive to overdosing water at this time. If we take Cycnoches cooperi out of the pot during the rest period, after removing the old roots, we can place a group of pseudobulbs in an empty clay or plastic pot until new growths appear in the spring. Both plants mounted on rootstocks, as well as those placed in empty pots, be misted or lightly watered once a week. No substrate around the roots facilitates faster drying and protects against rotting. After emergence of new growths in spring, the plants should be planted in a fresh substrate, but the amount of water when watering can be increased only when new roots begin to grow. Fertilization should be completely eliminated until more intense watering starts in the spring.
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