TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA WITH FOUR FLOWERS

Well here is that video and finally I have uploaded it and now to link it in here.

These Orchids are simply stunning and for such a small Orchid too. Fleshy and succlulent like leaves in an almost tiny Vanda like build but with what looks like miniature versions of Phalaenopsis zebrina flowers.

I just remembered that many of those Phalaenopsis, which I do have, of zebrina, hieroglyphica, sumtrana and the like only produce one flower at a time but acn produce several flowers in quick succesion.

These Trichoglottis can have more than one and while this one currently has four flowers there is another spike appearing so might end up with 6 or 7? If the flowers are long lasting that is? Could be that they might only last a week and the spikes take two weeks to flower?

We will find out now wont we?

VIDEO OF TRCHOGLOTTIS ...

TRICHOGLOTTIS PUSILLA WITH BUDS

Trichoglottis pusilla is a tiny species orchid with really neat but very small flowers. Looking a bit like another botanical species, Phalaenopsis zebrina, but with smaller flowers and a totally different plant type. In fact the plant, which is also small, looks more like a tiny Vanda than it does a Phalaenopsis and only a few inches across.

Well my Trichoglottis pusilla completely surprised me by showing me some well developed buds!

Cool!

A bit late getting this video, and several others, uploaded on here and I already have a video of this Orchid with four flowers ... err or five completely out and with another spike appearing!

Take a look ..

The video of the plant with four flowers out will appear in the next week ... plus there is a third spike so might be another with 6 or 7 flowers on it?

CYMBIDIUMS IN FLOWER

Albeit only two but quite a show.

Now these two Cymbidiums blooming were achieved by leaving them out until  they had three nights of hard frost. Yes I am aware that many books state that they should not go below 7 degrees celsius at night...but I tend to ignore the accepted rules because everyone writes about what they do which is just copying what someone else has already done.

So after first surprising a few people at leaving them outside at such cold temperatures and with frost on at least three nights I have now got them to flower for the first time in several years, well since purchase in fact!

Here is a video ...

I have another surprise coming right up ...