Orchids: February Orchids in 2009 part 2, 1 by RUK

RUK wrote:
As this month comes to a close -

a second bud opened on my Laelia lundii x Epidendrum longipetalum. I had bought it exactly one year ago with a fading flower. So this is flowering right on schedule. If you compare the flowering habit of this hybrid to that of Laelia lundii -
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6145729
(see the new growth in front, hopefully those are buds too)
if you see leaves on a new growth of Laelia lundii, it will NOT have produced a bloom on that growth and will NOT flower that season. This hybrid grows a regular little pseudobulb with leaves and the spike emerges from the center of the leaves.