ORCHID OF CRUSHED DIAMONDS - PODANGIS DACTLYOCERAS

I have another orchid in flower and this one does not look much like an orchid, admittedly, but is.

I also like this one because the flowers are pretty unique in themselves. They look like they are made of glittery rice paper or crushed diamond dust glued to pieces of polythene.

I have e very soft spot for this one and must look into getting this one bigger, I am obviously coming up short on giving it what it needs.

But then I have so many orchids, a boring but busy like with my health conditions which also screws up my memory up to a dozen times every single day.

Also odd is that I have one other orchid with two big spikes on it. Not odd in itself but the fact there are two of them at either end of a one metre humidity tray and each one with a Dendrobium kingianum (one hybrid) right next to them and yet the ones on the right produce more flowers and earlier than the ones on the left?!

It is like we have had more sun in the UK in the first half of the day than we have in the second for the past 3 to 5 years?! I do not know if this is even possible or it is some sort of weird weather apttern we have in the UK that no one has spotted?

I have noticed, in all honesty, that there has been more sun in the morning than there has in the afternoons as I ride a bike and the number of times I thought I would end up going out riding because the weather looked good only for it to turn crap is an inordinately large number.

If you ever see one of these Podangis dactyloceras for sale try to remember one thing, they apparently do not like to be potted and I have never ever kept mine that way due to reading that. If I had several more I would give it a try but with large wood chips. But as I only have the one Podangis I would not try it.

Yeah, yeah those that have been here enough times know that like with artificial light I do not take much notice of the books. Lol. I have a Dendbrobium victoriae-reginae and a Vanda coerulea that only get artificial light from a number of high powered LED bulbs and not a couple of inches away on them either ... umm except for the orchids that have literally grown right up next to the bulbs. Lol.

MINIATURE BOTANICAL ORCHID PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

Once again my Crushed Diamond Orchid, that is what I call it to others, has flowered!

Here are some pictures and videos ...

PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

Here is my Podangis dactyloceras in flower again, or what I affectionately call the Crushed Diamond Orchid...

THE FLOWER BUDDING ORCHID TABLE

Table Numero Uno this one.

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?

LOL...

Now I hoe I have the right video...

VIDEO of MY ORCHID TABLE ONE

VIDEO of CRUSHED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DACTYLOCERAS

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.

CRUSHED DIAMOND ORCHID - PODANGIS DATYLOCERAS

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!