{"id":7957,"date":"2020-11-09T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7957"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:20:00","slug":"ludisia-flower-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7957","title":{"rendered":"Ludisia Flower Buds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a plant seems to not grow for nearly two years, what could that mean? Loads of stuff. <\/p>\n<p>Wrong potting mix.<br \/>\nWrong light.<br \/>\nWrong watering.<br \/>\n\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When I bought the plant at the local Farmers\u2019 Market, I thought the grower told me that the plant is an Impatiens. <\/p>\n<p>Today when I did a google image search, I found that it is a Ludisia, a type of orchid. And that the soil was wrong, light wrong, and watering wrong, feeding wrong. Nice that it survived in spite of my incorrect care. I should have been caring for it like an African Violet.<\/p>\n<p>I repotted it and suddenly it began to grow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/LudisiaPlant_IMG_7809.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia Plant\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Could all be a coincidence, or maybe it finally had the right growing conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/LudisiaLeafDetail_IMG_7804.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia Leaf Detail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>New Growth<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/LudisiaNewGrowth_IMG_7805.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia New Growth\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Flower Buds<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/LudisiaBud_IMG_7800.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia Flower Bud\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/LudisiaBud_IMG_7801.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia Flower Bud\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2021 January 3<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_01_03_Ludisia1_IMG_9182.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_01_03_Ludisia2_IMG_9177.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2021 January 16<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_01_16_Ludisia3_IMG_9364.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2021 February 3<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_02_03_Ludisia4_IMG_9714.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_02_03_Ludisia5_IMG_9716.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2021 February 24<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_02_24_Ludisia6_IMG_0149.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_02_24_Ludisia7_IMG_0147.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2021 March 2<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_03_02_Ludisia8_IMG_0374.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2021 April 25<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_04_25_Ludisia9_IMG_2644.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/2021_04_25_Ludisia10_IMG_2648.jpg\" alt=\"Ludisia\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/powo.science.kew.org\/taxon\/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:641773-1\" >Kew Science\u2013Plants of the World Online, Ludisia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aos.org\/orchids\/orchids-a-to-z\/letter-l\/ludisia.aspx\" >The American Orchid Society, Ludisia<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a plant seems to not grow for nearly two years, what could that mean? Loads of stuff. Wrong potting mix. Wrong light. Wrong watering. \u2026 When I bought the plant at the local Farmers\u2019 Market, I thought the grower told me that the plant is an Impatiens. Today when I did a google image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ludisia Flower Buds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7957"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7957\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}