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?
I had a couple of Dendrobium kingianum types flower early in the year as they normally do. One flowered very well and the other merely OK, as usual.
However due to my one of my conditions, Fibromyalgia, which causes memory lapses I kept forgetting to video them until it was too late and thee flowers were drying up! Damn it!
Anyhoo I had some others flower and some spikes on some of my tiny orchid species along with a ... surprise and the second of five orchid species I have had four years about to flower for the very first time!
See if you can spot it in the videos?
Yellow & Purple hybrid Phalaenopsis ...
Tiny Phalaenopsis parishii ..
Even tinier Schoenorchis fragrans ..
The blue Queen Victoria Orchid, Dendrobium victoriae-reginae ..
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 ...
It is true to say I have been a little ... preoccupied with regards a subject that my most popular blog covers.
This has held back my other blogs somewhat, along with the highly variable weather, especially my British wildlife blog.
This s because something has occurred several months earlier than ... well, than I expected it to in all honesty by about 6 months. This is a very big thing and though I do mention this on the blog in question I do not go into detail. Just trust me it is big and over the next couple of months it will change everything. For the better.
I have to be even more preoccupied than ever before with this said subject and for at least a month ... maybe three or four. It is simply impossible to say. Despite the in depth knowledge I have within this particular blog's posts and it may seem like I can predict, work out and appear to know everything ... well, I do not. Some things I literally have to take a stab at and hope I am in the ballpark. From time to time I am not.
Sometimes these stabs are completely obvious by which then I will state so.
But before I get preoccupied with this other ... matter I decided that recent activity with my Orchids should be posted up before things go a bit ... well, nuts.
I have several Orchids in flower and an even greater number with buds and I only hope that I manage to catch those in flower in the coming weeks in picture and film and post on the Internet.
I have several Moth Orchids, Phalaenopsis, in flower and a few in bud.
I have also now, this morning, noticed that my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae has a few buds on it and I dare say more will appear over the next couple of weeks?
My Vanda coerulea is in bud, or the very early stages, and I fear this one might be missed, though it is several weeks from producing flowers.
Here are a few pictures and videos of them ...
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae ..
Ahh yes ... new LED bulbs I spotted in Sainsury's Homebase for stupidly cheap money and very high wattage. Well high for an LED. AT £6 each I decided to get TWO! They are 20W each so now are hooked up alongside my 16W and 19W Toshiba E-Core bulbs. It is VERY bright now, lol.
Annoyingly I have been trying to add new E-Cores for two years but the prices have increased markedly and I have been pushed for time too.
Well it has been awhile and like with a dozen other of my blogs and for vareious reasons, one bing three months of a really crappy illness still under investigation, my blogs have been neglected...yet again.
I am afraid it is what happens when various public services are not a service and quite the opposite in being an hinderence and actually stop you from doing things and keeping active instead of actually helping in the ways they were created for in the first place.
Still does not matter, it is all part of the traps and the processess of my ever more popular blogs on corruption and will all come out in the wash. A lot sooner than many realise too.
Anyhoo there are a few things I have managed to do and...acquire that I have not been able to get around to upload either here are the varioous blogs which link up to the different things I cover, know or have learned to do.
Now one of these is here and at last another Orchid video and my Vanda coerulea, Dendrobium victoriae-reginae and my Bulbophyllum have finally all returned to flowering ways since being upset about some carbon monoxide!
The Dendrobium of those three came back into flowering with gusto and is still producing bulbs as I type!
Typical the Bulbophyllum was facing the wrong way!
The Vanda is not that far way from flowering so expect another video.
Also it is extremely late in the year for all three of these to flower so I am somewhat shocked at this! The Dendro was flowering twice a year pre CO wash. Even the second flowering was not this late in the year. Vanda only once a year so far but normally around June/July and the same for the Bulbophyllum I think if I remember correctly. Yet it is the 16th November as I type and the Vanda is still yet to flower, the Dendro still in flower and with a few more flower bulbs emerging and the Bulbophyllum just stopped flowering in the last 24 hours or so.
Here is the link to the video and expect another in a few weeks.
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.
Again like the last post, sorry. I was uploading a test video to YouTube when I suddenly remembered I had not linked in the latest videos!
I have more on the camera as well as this and the last one and I do have a couple of films to do tomorrow!
Also there should be a few to many new arrivals this year too!! Plus my very unusual Phalaenopsis is in bud as is my miniature Phalaenopsis! These two were the only to Phalaenopsis left I had not managed to get flowering again due to being neglected due to one thing or another!
Well I will be honest down to the government and their public services in all honesty being damned laxy and bloody greedy with it and with delusions of grandeur! In fact that is the topic of my other blog along with corruption, asaintcalledallnights.blogspot.com, and there may now be an end to just one branch of my endeavours in corruption that may well see this blog and many others get a fantastic boost throughout 2014?!
Well that is unless they typically drag their feet or the question is only a cruel wind up question that gets your hopes up and then destroys them?!
But then I stated from day zero on thet blog that despite every avenue I go hurtling down and regardless of what proof and evidence I acquire all services are designed to come to naught?! Ergo I believe this one will come to naught as well!
Well I have been posting for nigh on nineteen months now and thus far I have proven myself to be correct, the idea being that no one would nor could acquire the evidence and proof that I have. Ergo if I cannot reach a happy solution to each one then what chance do the public have? PLus these are run with British taxpayers money too! I just show that they quite obviously do nothing and show it to anyone who is interested, lol.
Would be nice to be proved wrong in a big way for once!
Now my Orchid Table under the stairs has been busy and for a long while too producing spikes and flower buds. This video was from like a week or so ago and currently a couple are in flower here. Plus I have another couple in flower too and will film them tomorrow morning to be posted up on YouTube between tomorrow and the weekend. Fingers crossed something does not come up or my sieve for a brain does not act up as it normally does?!
Now hopefully my Denbrobium victoriae-reginae will start flowering soon and my Trichoglottis pusila will start to grow faster?! I have already seen a new leaf which you may see in the video and if not I will focus on it in the next one wich will probably be tomorrow that I film it?
Have a few Orchids that are not far from flowering so at last soime activity on here and on my YouTube account will start to take effect, lol.
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
Phalaenopsis Mini Hybrid spiking for the first time. As is the only other Phalaenopsis that I have not yet flowered. Many of my Orchids refused to flwer for a long period. This was me feeling sorry for an idiot and offereing my help which was not only taken but then abused in many ways.
That will not happen again I assure you. ;)
MINI PHAL SPIKE... This will be pink! Yes I know I am a guy but was the only bloody colour they had! Well yes I would have BOUGHT a WHITE ONE if they had one! LMAO!
These flowers went pure white and then died of before opening up completely. It also happened to the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae too and at the exact same time. There was a factor involved and this was a Calor Gas fire. I now do not use it as I did and moved it upstairs.
So just in case you think that a gas fire must be better because it will be warmer then no! Do not do it! Luckily it did not harm the plants themelves.
Since removing the gas fire from where it was to another floor one of the canes on my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae seems to have found some energy?! It seems to be growing up and will grow a bit more as the tip has two big leaves with two new leaves appearing next to them! You will normally get a new spurt of growth due to the pars of leaves appearing in nodes, which are normally at least an inch apart or more.
Well its now onto ots thrid flowering, along with the Vanda coerulea you will see in the next post, and it is starting to get cocky and show off now my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae!
Stunning?! Well I do not know if you can see or not but two of the buds, at least two, have yet to open!! LMAO! Many more pictures when it does and there will be a video over on my YouTube account too!
Those Dendrobium victoriae-reginae flowers almost open fully now.
Should be a good year for this plant. After I bought it last year it flowered TWICE and I took delivery of it probably about now or 11 months back.
So since then it has two new canes and currently has two more rising up as I type! Interesting to see if it produces any more flowers along with these two and I did think it would but not so sure now. Even so in a couple months time it should be quite interesting when it flowers again depending on how high the new canes are?!
Now the excitement of the Bulbophyllum prodicing two new growths can ONLY be surpassed by me then spotting not one but TWO NEW CANES appearing on my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae!!!
Ooh YEAH!!
SO along with the bare beginnings of the dark patches that mean flower buds I also have two new growths?!
It produced two before but one ended up a little stunted but is still growing while the first one to appear is currently taller that the taller of the two canes when I first received it.
Now hoefully the stunted one will get another couple of inches and these new two, if I keep on top of it, will outgrow the current longest cane?!
If so when it is done this beautiful blue species Orchid really WILL put on quite a show INDEED!!
