Thursday 15 November 2012

More spikes from SAME ORCHID TABLE!!

The Orchid table is going to put on its BEST show since I created it and very soon, around Christmas day at a guess?!

AS well as the FIVE hybrid Phalaenopsis that I know for SURE are in spike there are also these too...

Bulbophyllum echinolabium, maybe due to winter but just ONE flower were before there were four or five.

Same Bulbopyhllum echinolabium and an unusual time of year to flower.

The Green Velvet Jewel Orchid of Ludisia well on its way after spike grown 5 inches.

The Red Velvet Jewel Orchid and this has produced two flower spikes now (see next pic)

Darn it!! Right the Red Velvet Jewel Orchid of Ludisia with the previous spike in the top overexposed part, lol, and the second you can see nearer soil surface, which is coco-fibre by the way. It came planted in that.

My TINY Schoenorchis fragrans with roots looking long and attached now and now realise I am MISSING a photo?! LOL.

Ahh right!! My TINY Schoenorchis picture that went astray showing a new growth! Or Keiki (Hawaiian for Baby). Now to give you an idea of size that cork branch is somewhat less than an inch in diameter!! The flowers look like tiny Phalaenopsis ones but at around 1.5mm across and normally a dozen. Flowering this would be way cool but I would estimate not until around April 2013 at earliest.

 Another miniature species but somewhat bigger than my Schoenorchis is this Trichoglottis pusilla that I had been after for a couple of years and had sent over from a German Orchid Nursery! Picture here as a root looks like it is in the process of attaching to the cork which is for me a very good sign it will soon grow more rapidly and hence flower. Spring 2013 at earliest as a guess.


Annoying as this did not come out so good. My Podangis dactyloceras or Crushed Diamond Orchid as I like to call it. New growths are getting bigger and not immediately obvious in this photo but if you look to the bottom most leaf on the left...That leaf that reaches half way along its length and annoyingly blurry is the largest of three leaves in a Keiki! The other one is smaller but symmetrically in the same place on the other end of the plant! Much pleased about that!


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