Well the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is currently putting on its best ever show and even with the nineteen flowers all currently open it might just get a little bit better?
This is because there are no less than ten buds on it that have not opened and half of these not far from opening.
There are a couple of new canes that have sprouted from it but no roots yet, or Keikis. Not sure if this species likes having its keikis (new canes with roots) removed. I have done this with Dendrobium nobile but not looked it up with Dendrobium victoriae-reginaee.
Even if you can I am not sure that I would ... not yet anyway but if it ends up producing another haf a dozen then I might.
I do like this orchid.
I also like my species Phalaenopsis though I have only flowered to of the five or six that I have thus far. The fact that the Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica is now flowering fills me with confidence that the violacea, zebrina and sumatrana will do this year or next year too!
My Schoenorchis is still spiking with two spikes this year. That will make a cool little video.
Maybe my Trichoglottis pusilla will spike soon also? I seem to recall it flowering a little after the others did when it first flowered?
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.
I had a couple of Dendrobium kingianum types flower early in the year as they normally do. One flowered very well and the other merely OK, as usual.
However due to my one of my conditions, Fibromyalgia, which causes memory lapses I kept forgetting to video them until it was too late and thee flowers were drying up! Damn it!
Anyhoo I had some others flower and some spikes on some of my tiny orchid species along with a ... surprise and the second of five orchid species I have had four years about to flower for the very first time!
See if you can spot it in the videos?
Yellow & Purple hybrid Phalaenopsis ...
Tiny Phalaenopsis parishii ..
Even tinier Schoenorchis fragrans ..
The blue Queen Victoria Orchid, Dendrobium victoriae-reginae ..
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.
My seedling Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica is starting to look more like less of a seedling and more like a plant mature enough to produce flowers.
But I still think it has one more leaf and a couple of months to go before it reaches that stage, if we get any warm weather that is?!?!
Still that biggest leaf is a fair size now and new roots are emerging so I expect a speed up in the leaf production to start in the next week or two!
If you happen to be comparing it with previous pictures on previous posts I should point out that the pot you see in these pictures is one that it was moved into recently one that is a standard size, 5 inch I think, that you will see all the hybrid Phalaenopsis Orchids in at your local supermarket!
Not the little ones either the standard size Moth Orchid pots as this is what it was from! So it has probably at least doubled in size.
