QUEEN VICTORIA & HIEROGLYPHIC ORCHIDS

Well the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is currently putting on its best ever show and even with the nineteen flowers all currently open it might just get a little bit better?

This is because there are no less than ten buds on it that have not opened and half of these not far from opening.

There are a couple of new canes that have sprouted from it but no roots yet, or Keikis. Not sure if this species likes having its keikis (new canes with roots) removed. I have done this with Dendrobium nobile but not looked it up with Dendrobium victoriae-reginaee.

Even if you can I am not sure that I would ... not yet anyway but if it ends up producing another haf a dozen then I might.

I do like this orchid.

I also like my species Phalaenopsis though I have only flowered to of the five or six that I have thus far. The fact that the Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica is now flowering fills me with confidence that the violacea, zebrina and sumatrana will do this year or next year too!

My Schoenorchis is still spiking with two spikes this year. That will make a cool little video.

Maybe my Trichoglottis pusilla will spike soon also? I seem to recall it flowering a little after the others did when it first flowered?

MANY FLOWERED DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE

Not uploaded a lot in a while now.

Sorry ... lots and lots happening right now and all will become clear soon. Umm they currently are not clear to me right now! Lol!

Did this video several days ago and have been trying to upload it to YouTube ever since! In fact I am sure there are several other things I have filmed and photographed I need to upload?!

Anyhoo my Blue Bamboo Orchid, Dendrobium victoriae-reginae, has not only produced more than one clump of flowers it has now gonee mad and produced five or six clumps?!

So here is a video of it and I will try and get some pictures up ... umm if I took pictures?! I think I did? Trouble with one of my health conditions is one of the many things it does is screw around several times daily with short term memory! I will not go into the pain list nor the other 80 things it does, lol. Or my blood pressure going both way too high and way too low, or my Hiatus Hernia or Right Knee or my Oesophagitis! Hehe.

None of the above ... well OK one thing is causing me issues of late, the blood pressure going to both extremes and the cheap crap pills they keep putting me on and then taking me off again.

I am in the dark with my 'lots of things going on' which is exacerbating the blood pressure problem, lol.

But all will be good in the end ... and I now am at the end, thank God!

Now for a little video of a very nice Blue Orchid ...

MY DENDROBIUM NOBILE COMET KING IN FLOWER

Ahh now this video I forgot about and I think this is my Dendrobium nobile Comet King Orchid? It is definately in my window and I hope I have not got this one ,ixed up with the one in my last post?! Lol!!

I call this Comet King as I am sure this was the name on the label when I bought it for £3.00 two years ago?! Though I have seen ones listed as Comet Queen which look just like this, so whether or not there are two different ones created by the same Orchid house with slightly different shades and therefore names or someones misnaming them somewhere I do not know.

THE ORCHIDS UNDER THE STAIRS

My Orchids Under The Stairs Table.

This is end of March and I do a little run through, of what I have forgotten, (looking over my shoulder now) oh yes three Phalaenopsis hybrids that have reflowered and sevral in bid including my tiny Phalaenopsis.

Going to start feeding them flower feed more often now.

There are several Phalaenopsis in flower with several others still slowly growing spikes. The usual suspects are there like the Vanda coerulea, Vanda denisoniana (now growing better), Trichoglottis pusilla (now growing faster), Bulbuphyllum, Dendrobium vitoriae-reginea (now has cane much taller than the first ones), two Masdevallia and that new Cattleya and tiny Moth Orchid in with a spike.

I think the Cattleya is a Burana Beauty type? One Masdevallia is red and white but not sure what the other one is yet until it flowerrs, was purchased blindly. Cattleyas are sometimes known as Corsage Orchids.

ORCHIDS IN MY WINDOW

Ah now this is end of March like the other video I just uploaded.

Now this was a weird one whereby I have a mirror image on both sides made up of one Dendbrobium kingianum type, one Dendrobium nobile type and one Zygopetalum. Every year the two Dendrobium types flower around January February and all at the same time on each side.

Yet you can see clearly in the video that this year the left side flowered first while the right side flowered much later and one even failed altogether?!

I then realise that we had precious little sunlight and we had a couple of afternoons of sunlight and no mornings. This window is south facing and so an afternoon sund would hit the left side whereas a morning sun woulf hiut the right side.

This kind of threw me somewhat as they all get watered the same and fed the same so I was like 'wft?!' Lol!

My cream Dendrobium kingianum (labelled as such when I purchased it is in full flower here but I expected more flowers than this. Despite the fact there must be a hundred! Lol!

When I pan left to the Dendrobium Berry Oda (as labelled but obviously a hybrid kingianum) has but a few flowers left.

Oh and you can se that I have moved the Angry Wasp Orchid from upstairs in my bedroom to here?

My Cymbidiums have all ben placed in the garden now!

DENDROBIUM NOBILE COMET QUEEN

My Dendrobium nobile Comet Queen is in flower but unfortunately the other Dendrobium nobile only three feet to this ones right hand side decided not to flower?! Odd, obviously I did not starve that one long enough with water and must have accidentally watered it without thinking when in a rush some mornings?!

Damn it!! Lol!

ZYGOPETALUM IN FLOWER

More to come as they produce MORE flowers, lol.

;)

Oh yes I now have a SONY CYBERSHOT DSC HX300 BRIDE CAMERA, LMAO!

VIDEO of MY WINDOW ORCHIDS

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE DEVELOPING BUDS

Well the first of the buds are now gaining in size and I only noticed when I looked at the picture there appears to be two?!

LMAO.

I need to quickly check these before I disappear out the house and count this bud section and look at the others.

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE OLD PHOTOS

Some odd pictures of one of my two species Orchids that are blue.

This should start producing flower buds in about 4 weeks time?!

Fingers crossed I will get several flowers. First flower I got one and the second time I got TWO.

LMAO.

DENDROBIUM NOBILE OLD PICTURES

Here are some bad quality pictures taken with an old smart phone a couple of years back of my Dendrobium nobile.

DENDROBIUM KINGIANUM PUTS ON ITS OWN SHOW

Well there are STILL buds yet to open but here you go!!!

Well not quite as many as I have expected but maybe that is because some buds have not opened I do not know but it is still impressive just the same?!

LMAO!

ONCIDIUM PHALAENOPSIS DENDROBIUM

A few other Orchids and their developments...

First up an Oncidium Sweet Sugar I saved from death from...somewhere two years ago!

Taken a while but produced two NEW growths few weeks back....

Another shot of the Dendrobium Berry Oda but with the NEW CAMERA

The Pelloric Phalaenopsis buds will all be open in two days, this is ONE of TWO Spikes so will reposition for next photographs.

Dendrobium nobile RED-PURPLE with ORANGE CENTRE

This is my second Dendrobium nobile and has an Orange Centre on a Reddish Purple flower.

I like Bamboo Orchids due to their growth and you can see that buds are appearing, I think there are about 7 of these but any that appear could have TWO flowers on one node.

In the other Dendrobium post you will note that there is two on one whereas the rest are single flowers.

Dendrobium nobile - White, Edged Purple BUDS

This is my original Dendrobium nobile and as you can see and like my cream kingianum this will be open in a couple of days.

This one has white flowers with purple petal tips.

Dendrobium kingianum CREAM BUDS

Well it is about to POP!!

Well actually if you look very carefully you will see that it has already started!!

But there are a hell of a lot of buds on here and ore appearing all the time so should look pretty good when they are all out, which would be a couple of days only.