Showing posts with label botanical orchid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botanical orchid. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 April 2017

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA (Part 2)

Well as I promised here is my Trichoglottis pusilla now that the flowers all seem to be out ...



Video ...


Saturday, 8 April 2017

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA

Well it is another year ... currently without too much in the way of people or organisations screwing with me ... well ... there is ... one but that will be in hand in due course.

Anyhoo after a year of being screwed with and ending up in some ... dark places I am back.

Back with some force too soon I might add. Back in a way that has never even come close to being seen in the nearly five years I have been blogging.

More on that in a couple of months time.

So I have some pictures and videos of an orchid of mine in flower, the Trichoglottis pusilla ...


And a short video ...





Friday, 5 August 2016

ORCHID OF CRUSHED DIAMONDS - PODANGIS DACTLYOCERAS

I have another orchid in flower and this one does not look much like an orchid, admittedly, but is.

I also like this one because the flowers are pretty unique in themselves. They look like they are made of glittery rice paper or crushed diamond dust glued to pieces of polythene.

I have e very soft spot for this one and must look into getting this one bigger, I am obviously coming up short on giving it what it needs.

But then I have so many orchids, a boring but busy like with my health conditions which also screws up my memory up to a dozen times every single day.

Also odd is that I have one other orchid with two big spikes on it. Not odd in itself but the fact there are two of them at either end of a one metre humidity tray and each one with a Dendrobium kingianum (one hybrid) right next to them and yet the ones on the right produce more flowers and earlier than the ones on the left?!

It is like we have had more sun in the UK in the first half of the day than we have in the second for the past 3 to 5 years?! I do not know if this is even possible or it is some sort of weird weather apttern we have in the UK that no one has spotted?

I have noticed, in all honesty, that there has been more sun in the morning than there has in the afternoons as I ride a bike and the number of times I thought I would end up going out riding because the weather looked good only for it to turn crap is an inordinately large number.

If you ever see one of these Podangis dactyloceras for sale try to remember one thing, they apparently do not like to be potted and I have never ever kept mine that way due to reading that. If I had several more I would give it a try but with large wood chips. But as I only have the one Podangis I would not try it.

Yeah, yeah those that have been here enough times know that like with artificial light I do not take much notice of the books. Lol. I have a Dendbrobium victoriae-reginae and a Vanda coerulea that only get artificial light from a number of high powered LED bulbs and not a couple of inches away on them either ... umm except for the orchids that have literally grown right up next to the bulbs. Lol.







Sunday, 10 July 2016

A TINY SPECIES ORCHID - SCHOENORCHIS FRAGRANS

In what may turn out to be my last ever video and pictures of my orchids I have something that is rather stunning.

The DWP are coming after me again, I am registered disabled, and have told me they are stopping my benefit and the Citizen's Advice have told me that this will also get my housing stopped. Meaning that unless we, the Citizen's Advice who are offering to help, get this reversed I could lose my home ... again!

Annoying as it has flared up the anxiety symptoms of my Fibromyalgia which as pretty powerful.

In all honesty I think this is an attempt to stop me blogging about them and all the other public services on my corruption blog, A Saint Called Allnights. I have posted a large amount of evidence and much of it recorded proof. I have not published anywhere near all of it! Also I have not done enough with the blogs or the YouTube channel to get rid of the DWP for good. Unfortunately.

Anyway ... that is another matter.

For only the second year in the four years I have had my tiny orchid it is flowering and more so than it did last year!

Oh and a bit weird but there must be more wrong with my old camera than I realised as I noticed that on the camera's monitor the flowers looked purple but to my eyes directly they were far more pink than purple!

First the pictures and then the video at the bottom ...





Sunday, 12 June 2016

PHALAENOPSIS HIEROGLYPHICA & PARISHII

Well after an inordinately long wait the second of my four or five, I always forget how many, botanical Phalaenopsis has flowered.

Almost by design the first one to ever flower, the tiny Phalaenopsis parishii, currently has no less than seven flowers on it.

The Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica also has no less than four spikes and the second one at the front is a couple of days from opening. So there will be two at once.

These flowers tend to alternate in flowering on the same spike so you never get two together. However, having four spikes kind of leaves things a bit ... well, open. Lol.

Here is a picture and a video ...


See anything on the bottom left of the picture?

Phalaenopsis parishii and its seven flowers.


Friday, 7 August 2015

MINIATURE BOTANICAL ORCHID PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

Once again my Crushed Diamond Orchid, that is what I call it to others, has flowered!

Here are some pictures and videos ...




VERY TINY ORCHID - SCHOENORCHIS FRAGRANS

Well I am pleased to report that my very, very tiny orchid species orchid of Schoenorchis fragrans has flowered due to my increase in feed and an addition of another couple of 20 watt LED lights I bought from Sainsbury's Homebase for £5.99 each!

That is now two orchids that have flowered for the first time on me that are both species, or botanical orchids, from two completely different families, or genus.

The first of these was the Samurai Orchid, or Neofinitia fulcata and now this one ... umm wondering if I posted up the Neofinitia?! Lol.

Here is the Schoenorchis fragrans ...








Friday, 13 March 2015

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA WITH FOUR FLOWERS

Well here is that video and finally I have uploaded it and now to link it in here.

These Orchids are simply stunning and for such a small Orchid too. Fleshy and succlulent like leaves in an almost tiny Vanda like build but with what looks like miniature versions of Phalaenopsis zebrina flowers.

I just remembered that many of those Phalaenopsis, which I do have, of zebrina, hieroglyphica, sumtrana and the like only produce one flower at a time but acn produce several flowers in quick succesion.

These Trichoglottis can have more than one and while this one currently has four flowers there is another spike appearing so might end up with 6 or 7? If the flowers are long lasting that is? Could be that they might only last a week and the spikes take two weeks to flower?

We will find out now wont we?

VIDEO OF TRCHOGLOTTIS ...


Thursday, 12 March 2015

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA WITH BUDS

Trichoglottis pusilla is a tiny species orchid with really neat but very small flowers. Looking a bit like another botanical species, Phalaenopsis zebrina, but with smaller flowers and a totally different plant type. In fact the plant, which is also small, looks more like a tiny Vanda than it does a Phalaenopsis and only a few inches across.

Well my Trichoglottis pusilla completely surprised me by showing me some well developed buds!

Cool!

A bit late getting this video, and several others, uploaded on here and I already have a video of this Orchid with four flowers ... err or five completely out and with another spike appearing!

Take a look ..


The video of the plant with four flowers out will appear in the next week ... plus there is a third spike so might be another with 6 or 7 flowers on it?

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

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!


Sunday, 7 July 2013

CRUSHED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DATYLOCERAS

Well I said before it was going to produce three spikes I think. Well whatever number I put I underestimated this one just a little, lol.

There are currently an AT LEAST 7 spikes, yes that IS SEVEN, and one well developed one I counted ten buds on it?!

So that is a potential of 70 flowers and whatever number it turns out to be it will be damned impressive, LMAO! Oooh I really do have high hopes for this one but especially when I get it to branch out with more plants again.

So next year this will be quite a specimen plant?!?! Fingers crossed!





Monday, 27 May 2013

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.