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?
Have a few I am waiting for too. But right now I have my Colmanara Wildcat, or the closest I could get in identificiation not that it matters, with three spikes!!
Gorgeous in your face flowers what are not gawdy in anyway. Looking like Wasps and likely from an Orchid that intends to attract Wasps I call this the Angy Wasp Orchid.
This is a video of the first spike in flower out of the three and I did this video like a week ago or more and I apologise for the delay. In fact there maybe a couple of videos I forgot to link in to this blog!
Also I have more stored on the camera I have filmed and I also have a coupld to do tomorrow too!
So we are getting back into the swing, more than several of my Orchids are in bud,, I am out now on my bike, out today and bloody buggered right now, and I may well be ordering some Orchids this year?!
I am also intending to build my own Orchid Cases too and will happen over the next month!
Also there is something else that seems to have popped up and I was asked a rather strange question on a form to do with my corruption blog, asaintcalledallnights.blogspot.com. If indeed there is a benefical end result to the question then these blog and all my others will be acquiring a great deal of content over a period of about a year from when the end goal is reached. If it is reached?!
Oddly enough I do not think anything will come of it and if so I will explain what it is on my other blog if it fails. If I do tell and via a failure I am sure many will agree that it was not only a stupid question to ask of me but a very cruel question to ask!
It kind of took me by surprise but I really cannot say what it is, partly out of superstition and partly because I do not want the fact that I have mentioned it to actually work against me?! LMAO!
This Orchid, I cannot remember but will guess from the colour and shape, is produced from Miltonia because of the colour and Odontoglossum I guess because of the shape. There might be a third in their but I cannot recall if there is. Oh might be Oncidium now that I am thinking about it?
Possibly called or similar to Shooting Star. Need to check up on that.
Very pleasantly surprised at this one and particularly nice and I like the large Pseudobulbs it has and the flowers are similar to one called a Tahoma Glacier I should have bought last year but will order this year, 2014.
Flowers are unfortunately a little wilted and I cannot wait for this one to flower again.
I have pondered about Masdevallias for some time, they are very nice but do not really look like Orchids and I do like that typical Orchid look that you get with Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium, Cymbidium and like that of another new arrival is the Cattleya!
Now I have never had much luck with Cymbidiums, flowering, and Cattleya, keeping them alive for more than a year?!?!
But then I have a completely different set up now to what I had then and just the light rigging with the powerful LED bulbs and the large 1 metre x 0.5 metre humidity tray.
So let us hope that the Cattleya lives and then I may go for a couple of species I like like amythystoglossa and aclandiae I think it was?
Unlike last year this year will see a number of arrivals to my home and these Orchid areas, at long last, lol.
Onbviously this is a hybrid probably Odontoglossum and Miltonia from the shape of the flowers?
Now I had thought that this one was a wine red and white Orchid that I purchased from Tesco last year, err or year before lol?!
But I then realised that it was yellow and not white I realised it was an Orchid I refer to as the Angry Wasp, just my pet name for it you could say. Because it looks like a wasp and many types or Orchids are supposed to resemble a group of wasps hovering about on a breeze while giving of chemicals to make them appear to be wasps to, well OTHER real Wasps!
We can not smell it but it IS there and Wasps can and this way the Wasps go over trying to attack these Wasps to oonly result in the Wasp pollinating the Orchid flower. This is why many Orchids are not scented. Well noy scented to the human nose, no lol.
Anyway here is the first of a couple of videos I will do of thise one which has overtaken my Dondrobiums as being the earliest flowering Orchid in the new year.
Never thought that would happen and a couple od Dendrobiums do have buds.
I will also get back on my Orchid hunt this year and keep you posted.
Oh I almost forgot I have a few Orchids inbound too which are completely different to anything I have currently or have had previously.
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!
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!
Here is an old bad quality picture of one of my two Zygopetalums in flower from three years ago.
A great deal bigger now than they were then and right now I have a few NEW growths appearing so a few weeks I might get three of four spikes on these?!
Do NOT mist these too much and leave the leaves dry for several days. When you do mist which I do once or when warmer twice a week I only do so very finely and lightly.
Water on the leaves it will not like one bit and the leaves will rot.
When I first got these two four years ago I lost all the leaves on one and all but two on the other, got fed up threw them outside behind my maples and under some Lelandii and next thing I knew they got all their leaves back?!
Still have the big reedy Cymbidium, six of the Phalaenopsis and a few others, the rest either were stolen or died because of a selfish twat who need to see professional help.
You will note that there are a great many Orchids in these photos you have not seen photos of.
This is because they were stolen by a complete twat! One with a mental problem too and all because I tried to get into some kind of work and earn some cash, lmao!
