DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE FLOWERING GOOD

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!

ENCRUSTED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

Well a little earlier than I expected and the flowers are now opening. A few days time and it will look really mad!

Oh it is not called a Diamond Orchid or Encrusted Diamond Orchid, that is just what I refer to it because of the crystalline look of the petals, lol. You will see in a few days time what I mean.

VANDA DENISONIANA SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE

Was hopint fo get some real action and growth out of my Vanda denisoniana seedlings but lack of summer putting paid to that?!

Still they are producing new roots and I MAY throw them in the heated Orchid nursery for couple of months give them a kick up the backside.

They got neglected for a bit which was beyond my control, see my other 12 blogs lol, but I am determined to get these going well again.

Maybe when they come out we will have a muggy, hot, close, unberably humid summer I hate but they love?! Lol.

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.

DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE - BLUE BAMBOO ORCHID

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!!

Fingers crossed, lol.

BULBOPHYLLUM GROWTHS AND SPIKE

My Bulbophyllum has sprung into action albeit late.

There are at least TWO new growths that have appeared and I think the beginnings of a flower spike.

Not sure the spike is visible in the pictures and awkward to get a picture of without removing the plant, which is bloody tricky!!

ORCHID NURSERY ADDITIONAL LIGHT

SO after trying to find an LED bulb for this glass nursery I gave up and bought the LED floodlight system I showed you in my last post.

AS a result of that I was able to remove TWO bulbs from the Orchid set up and then swing my Desk Light Fluorescent around to place over the nursery. I was able to remove a 7 watt Energy saving bulb from this nursery too.

Oddly though I saved energy while increasing light intensity on the Orchid main set up and overall the wattage has actually increased on the nursery because I removed a 7 watt fluorescent and added a 12 watt fluorescent?! LOL!

Still I have freed up an adaptor or two and now when I can next perform the task I can buy a GU10 LED bulb, which will be a great deal easier, or around 4 or 5 watts and save another 7 or 8 watts on top of the 10 watts I have already shaved off. It is possible that I may be able to loose the LED on the left too which would be another 2.8 watts.

Damn I just realised I actually already have several LED bulbs in my ceiling lights?!

LMAO IDIOT!