Ladies and gentlemen much to my surprise my Vanda coerulea has produced a second spike after dropping the first a few days after its first arrival?!
I was certainly not expecting this and as some of you know these have the highest light requirement of all the tropical orchids that are readily available in specialist nurseries or on-line!
This one is under the stairs and has TWO Toshiba E-Core lights about a foot, 12 inches, above it one of which is 16 Watt while the other is 19.7 Watt. Though if I was to buy them again I would probably stick to 16 Watt spots. Colour temperature of both the spotlights is 2700K and you can see from the photographs below that the plant has turned up towards the light which it did quite awhile back and of course i can clearly see from this it is doing fine as well as looking better, when not in a nice tall conical vase that is?! lol.
I am very happy to see this, very happy and could not be happier ... unless a see a second spike of course?!
Vanda coerulea third leaf down on left side you can see the spike appearing.
A closer inspection of SAID spike.
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