Showing posts with label zygopetalum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zygopetalum. Show all posts

Thursday, 3 April 2014

ORCHIDS IN MY WINDOW

Ah now this is end of March like the other video I just uploaded.

Now this was a weird one whereby I have a mirror image on both sides made up of one Dendbrobium kingianum type, one Dendrobium nobile type and one Zygopetalum. Every year the two Dendrobium types flower around January February and all at the same time on each side.

Yet you can see clearly in the video that this year the left side flowered first while the right side flowered much later and one even failed altogether?!

I then realise that we had precious little sunlight and we had a couple of afternoons of sunlight and no mornings. This window is south facing and so an afternoon sund would hit the left side whereas a morning sun woulf hiut the right side.

This kind of threw me somewhat as they all get watered the same and fed the same so I was like 'wft?!' Lol!

My cream Dendrobium kingianum (labelled as such when I purchased it is in full flower here but I expected more flowers than this. Despite the fact there must be a hundred! Lol!

When I pan left to the Dendrobium Berry Oda (as labelled but obviously a hybrid kingianum) has but a few flowers left.

Oh and you can se that I have moved the Angry Wasp Orchid from upstairs in my bedroom to here?

My Cymbidiums have all ben placed in the garden now!


Sunday, 25 August 2013

ZYGOPETALUM IN FLOWER

More to come as they produce MORE flowers, lol.

;)

Oh yes I now have a SONY CYBERSHOT DSC HX300 BRIDE CAMERA, LMAO!


Friday, 12 July 2013

ZYGOPETALUM BUDS AND GROWTH

My Zygopetalums are now producing new growth and I just realised they have been sitting in an inch or two of water?!

God I have been so busy lately and my old bike keeps going wrong and in and out of hospitals and Doctor surgeries only to get lied to and lied to and getting lies about test results and ultrasound scans, lol.

Luckily I think they will be OK and show no signs of ills over being sitting in water!

Some Orchid types are not as as bad with water sitting as the books would have you believe. Still not a great idea to do though. Lol.



Monday, 27 May 2013

ZYGOPETALUM OLD PICTURE

Here is an old bad quality picture of one of my two Zygopetalums in flower from three years ago.

A great deal bigger now than they were then and right now I have a few NEW growths appearing so a few weeks I might get three of four spikes on these?!

Do NOT mist these too much and leave the leaves dry for several days. When you do mist which I do once or when warmer twice a week I only do so very finely and lightly.

Water on the leaves it will not like one bit and the leaves will rot.

When I first got these two four years ago I lost all the leaves on one and all but two on the other, got fed up threw them outside behind my maples and under some Lelandii and next thing I knew they got all their leaves back?!

Done great ever since, LMAO.