A TINY SPECIES ORCHID - SCHOENORCHIS FRAGRANS

In what may turn out to be my last ever video and pictures of my orchids I have something that is rather stunning.

The DWP are coming after me again, I am registered disabled, and have told me they are stopping my benefit and the Citizen's Advice have told me that this will also get my housing stopped. Meaning that unless we, the Citizen's Advice who are offering to help, get this reversed I could lose my home ... again!

Annoying as it has flared up the anxiety symptoms of my Fibromyalgia which as pretty powerful.

In all honesty I think this is an attempt to stop me blogging about them and all the other public services on my corruption blog, A Saint Called Allnights. I have posted a large amount of evidence and much of it recorded proof. I have not published anywhere near all of it! Also I have not done enough with the blogs or the YouTube channel to get rid of the DWP for good. Unfortunately.

Anyway ... that is another matter.

For only the second year in the four years I have had my tiny orchid it is flowering and more so than it did last year!

Oh and a bit weird but there must be more wrong with my old camera than I realised as I noticed that on the camera's monitor the flowers looked purple but to my eyes directly they were far more pink than purple!

First the pictures and then the video at the bottom ...

FINALLY SOME ORCHIDS

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 ..

VERY TINY ORCHID - SCHOENORCHIS FRAGRANS

Well I am pleased to report that my very, very tiny orchid species orchid of Schoenorchis fragrans has flowered due to my increase in feed and an addition of another couple of 20 watt LED lights I bought from Sainsbury's Homebase for £5.99 each!

That is now two orchids that have flowered for the first time on me that are both species, or botanical orchids, from two completely different families, or genus.

The first of these was the Samurai Orchid, or Neofinitia fulcata and now this one ... umm wondering if I posted up the Neofinitia?! Lol.

Here is the Schoenorchis fragrans ...

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA WITH FOUR FLOWERS

Well here is that video and finally I have uploaded it and now to link it in here.

These Orchids are simply stunning and for such a small Orchid too. Fleshy and succlulent like leaves in an almost tiny Vanda like build but with what looks like miniature versions of Phalaenopsis zebrina flowers.

I just remembered that many of those Phalaenopsis, which I do have, of zebrina, hieroglyphica, sumtrana and the like only produce one flower at a time but acn produce several flowers in quick succesion.

These Trichoglottis can have more than one and while this one currently has four flowers there is another spike appearing so might end up with 6 or 7? If the flowers are long lasting that is? Could be that they might only last a week and the spikes take two weeks to flower?

We will find out now wont we?

VIDEO OF TRCHOGLOTTIS ...

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA WITH BUDS

Trichoglottis pusilla is a tiny species orchid with really neat but very small flowers. Looking a bit like another botanical species, Phalaenopsis zebrina, but with smaller flowers and a totally different plant type. In fact the plant, which is also small, looks more like a tiny Vanda than it does a Phalaenopsis and only a few inches across.

Well my Trichoglottis pusilla completely surprised me by showing me some well developed buds!

Cool!

A bit late getting this video, and several others, uploaded on here and I already have a video of this Orchid with four flowers ... err or five completely out and with another spike appearing!

Take a look ..

The video of the plant with four flowers out will appear in the next week ... plus there is a third spike so might be another with 6 or 7 flowers on it?

A SPIKE ON MY SCHOENORCHIS FRAGRANS

Well I hope so but now I have been editing the pictures it looks like a leaf?!

Still whatever it is it is faster and more than it wqas two years ago and as many orchids in the Vandaceous group produce spikes after neaw leaves appear it may well me this year it flowers?!

Now it looked very much like a spike as it looked like a tiny Phalaenopsis bumpy spike and a lighter green than the leaves.

New leaves have always appeared darker green before but then I have increased the light recently and oddly have just done so again switching over a 12 Watt fluorescent for a 4 Watt 2700K LED bulb with a small screw mount.

Oddly enough I also have a 3 watt version too and yet I cannot buy a single one of these in a 4 mile radius of my house?!

Argos, B&Q, Sainsburys, Sainsburys Homebase, two Tescos, Maplin and anyone else I have forgotten about, lol.

One of the two I have came from Lidl's of all places but not had them since while the other was purchased in Sainsburys Homebase but did not have a single on in stock a few days back except for aa different manufacturer at double the price!!

I digress.

Back to the PHOTOS!...