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.
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.
Now this Phalaenopsis is very, VERY small and in the last picture below some of those other hybrids are between four and ten times larger then this one! The rim of the top of the tall glass vase it rests in is less than two inches across. Meaning the leaf spans about 3 inches or so.
I wanted to explain that as I have also posted about my Phalaenopsis parishii double spiking with picturesd and a video. The species of Phalaenopsis parishii is way smalle still than even this diminutive hybrid! Probably about half the size.
Schoenorchis, which looks alot like a miniscule Phalaenopsis, is smallr STILL!
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?
Well finally after stalling several times due to the temperatures. It hit the late 28 Degrees or more for a week and BOOM!
So it turns out that this one is the white one and I had forgotten what a good one I picked out?! Yes it may not be the rare one that is similar but with a yellow ground colour but once seeing this, this morning I do not mind, lol.
In fact I realised that here is yet ANOTHER Phalaenopsis to the left of it, you can see in one of the pictures, which has yet to flower?! SO this could be the elusive yellow one with purple blotches I thought lost?!
It is not totally identical in pattern to this one. In fact the large purple botches are smaller and confined to nearer the centre of the flower. Also there is a series of smaller round dots if I recall correctly and normally about four of them a little further out than the purple colour. But on the yellow background it looks quite unusual and exotic and caught th attention of another Orchid enthusiast I knew that used to be on my Facebook list.
Now my TWO favourite Phalanopsis both have purple blotches and one I have seen a few times since I bought mine, which is WHITE with big blotches, and another one I have NEVER EVER seen again.
This latter Phalaenopsis was an amaxing looking YELLOW with big purple botches and I am hoping it is this one. If it is then I can go and buy the other as mine is gone, err well I think, lol. Well it could have ended up at a nutters place in Norfolk when he stole a load of stuff or possibly I have one that I still have yet to get flowering again and that could be it, lol.
Well at least I will find out this year! Err fingers crossed!
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.
The latest on my Phalaenopsis which stalled a little in flowering!
Weather has been up and down a great deal and even now it has been raining for three days and I hear it will continue for some days to come?!
The PELLORIC PHALAENOPSIS
SPOTTED PHALAENOPSIS
Typical this was also one ot the first I bought, a little before the PELLORIC ONE, when I had not realised how many fantastic colours there are, just not seen in the damned supermarkets!
Typical in that out of the more fantastic colours I have it is the more abundunt and less impressive coloured ones that have flowered both continually, Pelloric, and FIRS, this Spotted one.
Do not get me wrong they are still beautiful or I would not bother or give them away, but the other two are really unusual and very similar to each other but with very different base colours.
Hopefully you will see this before long but it might be another two weeks, lol.
Post will follow of a few videos showing them and others and their current states.
