THE LONG PAUSE

I have had a serious issue going on for seven months now.

It should have not gone on this long but it did.

There was delay after delay and I am not even sure why, with most if not all of them.

As I stated on my corruption blog .. it will mean some big changes when it occurs and will mean that I can buy a shed load of things that are for professionals, like camera equipment.

But before I could buy anything else I needed something that would help me acquire these other tools, of which there is a long list.

Of course one of the other issues I have had is that I use my mountain bike for a lot of work and .. well the weather has been dreadful for me and my health condition. My condition does not like it when it is hot and humid and it was exactly that of late.

Well .. that is until it turned to rain and last night I could heard this horrendous and loud noise and I thought 'That sounds like really, really heavy rain but that kind of rain I have not witnessed before!'

I got up and looked out my window and I think many local Indian people could be forgiven for thinking they had been teleported back to India in he middle of a monsoon!

Anyway yeah so I needed the bike and as has been the case for years now .. if it is really hot, raining or even just a wind stronger than 10mph then getting anything done wildlife wise, or anything else for that matter .. is impossible!

But ..

.. not anymore!

As I stated previously .. many tools to come! Lol!! Hmm .. heated greenhouse?! Lol.

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA (Part 2)

Well as I promised here is my Trichoglottis pusilla now that the flowers all seem to be out ...

Video ...

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA

Well it is another year ... currently without too much in the way of people or organisations screwing with me ... well ... there is ... one but that will be in hand in due course.

Anyhoo after a year of being screwed with and ending up in some ... dark places I am back.

Back with some force too soon I might add. Back in a way that has never even come close to being seen in the nearly five years I have been blogging.

More on that in a couple of months time.

So I have some pictures and videos of an orchid of mine in flower, the Trichoglottis pusilla ...

And a short video ...

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.

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 ...

QUEEN VICTORIA & HIEROGLYPHIC ORCHIDS

Well the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is currently putting on its best ever show and even with the nineteen flowers all currently open it might just get a little bit better?

This is because there are no less than ten buds on it that have not opened and half of these not far from opening.

There are a couple of new canes that have sprouted from it but no roots yet, or Keikis. Not sure if this species likes having its keikis (new canes with roots) removed. I have done this with Dendrobium nobile but not looked it up with Dendrobium victoriae-reginaee.

Even if you can I am not sure that I would ... not yet anyway but if it ends up producing another haf a dozen then I might.

I do like this orchid.

I also like my species Phalaenopsis though I have only flowered to of the five or six that I have thus far. The fact that the Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica is now flowering fills me with confidence that the violacea, zebrina and sumatrana will do this year or next year too!

My Schoenorchis is still spiking with two spikes this year. That will make a cool little video.

Maybe my Trichoglottis pusilla will spike soon also? I seem to recall it flowering a little after the others did when it first flowered?

PHALAENOPSIS HIEROGLYPHICA & PARISHII

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.

Here is a picture and a video ...

See anything on the bottom left of the picture?

Phalaenopsis parishii and its seven flowers.