Chocolate Orchids require open, free-draining media to grow and bloom. The Sharry Baby Orchid needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5″ pot. To personalize watering, use the water calculator. Grow in a fine-grade, bark-based epiphytic orchid compost with bright filtered light, good ventilation, and water freely as compost dries out. Use orchid fertiliser at every third watering and mist.
The Sharry Baby Sweet Fragrance Oncidium Orchid is an orchid hybrid originated by Beall in 1983. It is a cross of Onc. Jamie Sutton x Onc. Honolulu. The cinnamon-brown and white flowers are densely arranged on branching inflorescences up to three feet (1 meter) long. The leaves rarely grow more than 8 inches in height, but the spikes can reach up to 2 feet or more in length.
Plants available for this hybrid include the 4″ Pot option, which can be filled with plants in spike/bud/bloom as blooming stock. These easy-to-grow hybrids have very tall spikes reaching over 3 feet long and can bloom twice a year. The spikes branch and can have between 75 to 150 flowers. The plant is best grown moist and can produce multiple 1.5″ blooms lasting 2-3 weeks.
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Hi Nicole, Great article. I ordered a Sharry Baby Raspberry Chocolate from a nursery, and when I unboxed it, It was /is so large! She had three spikes on her so she was quite beautiful and had a wonderful chocolate sent. It was totally root bound in a little pot with some moss. I repotted her into Bark and coco husks . We will see how she grows
Been waiting to find a article like this that breaks down the different types and characteristics of each. Very informative! I also grow orchids in Brooklyn, NY. Right now I have about 20. You mentioned you’re going to give onc. sharry baby ‘red fantasy’ away, I would take it or if you were intrested I would trade you one of mine?
I have Onc. sharryBaby ‘Red Fantasy’. It’s in spike right now. Smells wonderful, but it sure is a (happy) grower. I divided it and I noticed the plant is a Hugh root producer. I also have Oncidium Tsukuba Margueale. Much smaller, but still a heavy root producer. She has 4 spikes right now, but no flowers yet. To me it smells like cotton candy. 🍭Thanks for a great article.🤗👏🦋
Very helpful article, Nicole! I was just gifted a Sharry Baby that is still quite small, so now I know it will need its own zip code soon! Thank you for sharing your expertise! 😇⚘ Amy. Btw, I just repotted mine in moss after perusal this. I mentioned you in the repotting article, I hope that’s okay with you. Thanks again, Nicole.
Thx for such an informative article! I’ve been debating about which to get for awhile now, but am dismayed that there aren’t any sold locally here. Would love to try any of them, especially Rasp Choco or Sweet Fragrance! Do you typically separate new bulbs yearly? I’ve also heard Tsiku Marguerite is a nice alternative which smells similarly?
omg I’m totally obsessed. lol I had 1 orchid when I first watched your articles last year, now I have over 15 hahaha I’m obsessed with sharry baby and twinkles. THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH for the lesson because I’m sitting here every day like when u gon flower yo! haha By the way you sound just like my cousin who grew up in new york which is on the other coast from me and she’s blackarican.
You’re missing the Sharry Baby ‘Tricolor’ and ‘Ruby Doll’, have to round out the collection 😉. Heaven Scent ‘Redolence’ is my favorite of the SB types, I think it has the best fragrance and blooms. Now I bought a plant as Oncidium fuscatum and it turned out to be a Heaven Scent, which wouldn’t bother me except I already have it and I don’t need two (and thus I ordered a fuscatum from an importer). My AKA Baby hardly has any fragrance, a very disappointing purchase that one.