SOME ORCHID BUDS & FLOWERS

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.

THE RETURN OF THE VANDA COERULEA & PAPHIOPEDILUM PRIMULINUM

After its best part opf a year sulk, due to carbon monoxide that I bloody well knew they would not like, the Blue Orchid of Vanda coerulea has flowered once again.

Now rather bizarrely it is at a totally different part of the year it has flowered before and it is in flower right now. Added to this is the fact that it only has two flowers and is by far the worst show of flowers it has had since I obtained it!

I am entirely convinced that in a few months it will flower again and will have over double the amount of flowers it has this time around.

Also and like the Bulbophyllum earlier in the year it bloody well flowered with both the flowers facing the wall!

Typical!

Also you will see my species Phalaenopsis still surviving in the video and my newly acquired Paphiopedilum primulinum which is a miniature sized Slipper Orchid flowers thats bright yellow?!

My brother very kindly purchased this for me at McBean's Nursey just outside Lewes in East Sussex when we found ourselves their unexpectedly just before Christmas.

I picked up those Odontoglossums in those tiny flasks (Urine Specimen Bottles) which should turn out to have a yellow flower in two years or so when they do flower?

THE RETURN OF THE ORCHIDS

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.

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.

TO FLOWER ORCHIDS AND AVOID GAS FIRES

A few pictures in case I forgot to post them up.

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.

VANDA COERULEA BUDS OPENING

Now my Vanda coerulea flowering for the third time and unlike the Dendrobium victoria-reginae not quite old enough, large enough or setlled in enough to really show off! Sadly.

But I expect this one will do just that in about 6 months time?! Cannot wait either!

Bit fully opened as some of you will spot. A couple of days and should be there?!

 More photos to come of course and there is and will be more videos over on my YouTube account too!

VIDEO of MY ORCHID TABLE ONE

VANDA COERULEA LAYS DOWN ITS ROOTS

Vanda coerulea roots seem to be getting everywhere which is good!

Can now glew or nail this cork anywhere I want in future and I DO have a very grand plan for Orchids that achieve this in my collection?!?!

Just have to wait and see, lol.

VANDA COERULEA FLASH ONLY PHOTOGRAPHS

Probably the most blue they have appeared in a photo this far?!

I did this after the timers switched out the lights and used the flash only just to see how they would appear.

Well here they are...

VANDA COERULEA AT CLOSE QUARTERS Part 2

More close up shots of the Vanda coerulea flowers...

The textures on the petals are quite something and it changes a great deal depending on the light as does the colour. As I said previous this is a blue orchid but light has to be right. Only other blue Orchid that I know of, saw a third type but no details on it just yet, is the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae and also a stunning plant and flower in its own right!