My Vanda coerulea

Right another species Orchid I wanted which was also blue like the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae and like that Orchid these can come out more purplish than blue?!

Hopefully and WHEN it flowers this will also be blue like the other and these two are often referred to as the Blue Orchid and this colour is very rare within the world of orchids! A shame.

Any Blue Vandas seen in Garden Centres will no doubt be hybrids produced from Vanda coerulea though but will be a darker blue than the wild plant.

Also the species tends to have twisted petals though many in captivity have had this bred out of them so the flowers appear flat like in the hybrids.

I am also hoping this is true of this plant but not likely to flower until April or May 2013.

In the last picture is my seedling Vanda denisoniana I have had for three years, despite it being neglected at times! It grows in a tall narrow glass vase now and has shot up in size since I did that!

The lighting in these pictures the Orchids grown under are Toshiba E-Core LED bulbs of 2700k colour temperature and one 19 Watt and one 16 Watt?! The rest made up of small 2x 2.8 Watt LED cold whites and 1x 9 Watt Warm and 1x 9Watt Cold. Around 18 Orchids are grown under these and though the Vanda have the highest LIGHT REQUIREMENT they grown very well under bulbs that are not that demanding in electricity and nowhere NEAR a window!!!