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.
I think I forgot to post about this on here and sorry but much will ne happening on this site from now on and in abount a months time I should be ordering new Orchids too. However I am waiting for a mate to turn up as I want to give him a coupld of Orchids but he is on one of his notorious periods of absence. Lol.
Anyway here is a little surprise for both me and now for you. Now out of the many species of Phalaenopsis I acquired one that I thought would flower after a couple of others has now .. flowered!
Now you have to understand that this is firstly a Moth Orchid SPECIES and secondly that thyis is very tiny indeed. In fact if you have any hybrids you purchased from a supermarket then I can guarantee that the reduced size lip that your Orchid has is quite a bit bigger than the entire flower of this one!
These are just around 5 to maybe 7 mm across. No I am not kidding here and in one video I pan across to my Spotty Dog hybrid Orchid so you can check the size difference. I do in fact place a ten pence piece in the photos, if not one of these videos.
Now I am hoping that the other species of Phalaenopsis I have will each flower this year now that the warmer temperatures are here?! Hopefully because a spell of increased growth will no take place?
So as well as trying to order afew more species in about a months time there are my other species of Phalaenopsis of zebrina, hieroglyphica, violacea, sumatrana and bellina! So five more species to go and also my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae has buds right now and then there is the Vanda coerulea.
Also the Vanda denisoniana has also icreased it growth rate in the last few days too. SO maybe late in the summer we might be in for different show altogether?!
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!
Well this little guy hit me with both barrells recently and decided to release each one a few days apart.
FIrst I could quite not believe it when I spotted what was surely a spike rising up and then a few days later a second one!
Now I have had this guy two years now and was a seedling when I receieved it. I hope its a good sign that all my other species of Phalaenopsis (zebrina, hieroglyphica, sumatrana, violacea, bellina) may all now start spiking?!
Oh now would that not make for a very cool year of 2014 if they all did, or even most?! lol!
This is end of March and I do a little run through, of what I have forgotten, (looking over my shoulder now) oh yes three Phalaenopsis hybrids that have reflowered and sevral in bid including my tiny Phalaenopsis.
Going to start feeding them flower feed more often now.
There are several Phalaenopsis in flower with several others still slowly growing spikes. The usual suspects are there like the Vanda coerulea, Vanda denisoniana (now growing better), Trichoglottis pusilla (now growing faster), Bulbuphyllum, Dendrobium vitoriae-reginea (now has cane much taller than the first ones), two Masdevallia and that new Cattleya and tiny Moth Orchid in with a spike.
I think the Cattleya is a Burana Beauty type? One Masdevallia is red and white but not sure what the other one is yet until it flowerrs, was purchased blindly. Cattleyas are sometimes known as Corsage Orchids.
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?
This is a very small miniature Phalaenopsis HYBRID that when I saw I had to buy because of its diminutive size?!
To give you an idea that large leaf on the left of the picture is also a hybrid Phalaenopsis I bought at a supermarket store! That is only one third of the leaf in the picture too!!
LMAO!
So a very small and as you can see very healthy, and wet, Phalaenopsis miniature I have had about three years, got a bit neglected year before last, and I now hope will flower. Though as the only available flower colour was not my favourite pink it will be more a sense of achievement than anything else.
Before you curse me I DID state MORE and not ONLY, lol.
Also if you think this is small for a Phalaenopsis miniature how about a Phalaensopsis TINY and NOT a hybrid?!
Yes my Phalaenopsis parishii, also blessed with the cursed pink flowers, is about HALF this size?! Probably find that it is from this species, and probably Phalaenopsis equestris, that these miniature hybrids are produced from. Also highly likely why the flowers seem to be exclusively pink.
There is a white one with a bit of orange that I had intended to order last year and did not! Damn it whatr was it called?!?!?! Anyway it has given me an idea and I may place an order for a couple of plants in the next few weeks?!?!
I think of the whole plant as a pseudobulb between the leaves and the stem.
Healthy smooth leaves and tall fattish stem, especially when the plant is side on, and I see this as fully watered and fed.
In plants deprived of water in Phalaenopsis if the leaves look slightly shrivelled I then look to the stem and study it side on. If it looks skinny I then know I have a lot of work to do if I buy the plant from a store!
