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.