VIDEO of TWO NEW PHALAENOPSIS plus DENDROBIUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE

Quite unexpected gifts from my mother are these two new Phalaenopsis?!

Pictures and yacking to follow!

Hmm not the one used in the still frame, lol.

VANDA DENISONIANA SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE

Was hopint fo get some real action and growth out of my Vanda denisoniana seedlings but lack of summer putting paid to that?!

Still they are producing new roots and I MAY throw them in the heated Orchid nursery for couple of months give them a kick up the backside.

They got neglected for a bit which was beyond my control, see my other 12 blogs lol, but I am determined to get these going well again.

Maybe when they come out we will have a muggy, hot, close, unberably humid summer I hate but they love?! Lol.

VANDA COERULEA LAYS DOWN ITS ROOTS

Vanda coerulea roots seem to be getting everywhere which is good!

Can now glew or nail this cork anywhere I want in future and I DO have a very grand plan for Orchids that achieve this in my collection?!?!

Just have to wait and see, lol.

DENDROBUM VICTORIAE-REGINAE WITH SOME SURPRISES IN STORE

Some pictures of my Dendrobium vuctoriae-reginae which now look to be showing signs of many more flower buds that the previous two?!

Remember also that each of these can have between one and 4, 5, or 6 flowers and the most I had previous was two from one?!

First fllowering was one flower and second flowering was three flowers from two sources. I look to have 4 or 5 dark patches just from one cane and another cane looks to have at least one and another new growth at the top, where it was previously cut to produce more plants, growing upwards in line with the cane?!

This could be another flower bud but I do not think it is. Had I had longer experience with this beautiful species of Orchid I would probably know for sure but due to its diminutive size I am going with another cane or to be precise a KEIKI!

Now a keiki on this would be cool! I also want to order another one of these at some point and likely another Vanda coerulea.

In both these pictures you will see an area slightly above the second node which should be flowers buds. But better seen in the photo below is the tiny growth coming from the TOP of the cane which I believe to be a keiki or a whole new plant growth. Once big enough and has around two to four leaves this will produce roots around its base and once there are at least three of these of at least an inch long I can remove this plant to another pot, therefore starting a second separate plant?!

COOLIOS!!

Arrows point to the areas of dark patched where buds normally appear from. Only in ones or twos previously but this time around could be very different. 

Once these two new canes have gone beyond the shortest of the shortest of the previous canes this will become quite a specimen indeed. After that the flowers it will produce should equal or exceed a majority of those you see in pictures.

MINIATURE HYBRID PHALAENOPSIS

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!

PHALAENOPSIS HIEROGLYPHICA NEW ROOTS

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.

SPOTTED PHALAENOPSIS DECIDES TO OPEN 3RD FLOWER

Well after a long pause for thought my Spotty Phalaenopsis hybrid is now opening that third flower bud!