THE ORCHIDS UNDER THE STAIRS

My Orchids Under The Stairs Table.

This is end of March and I do a little run through, of what I have forgotten, (looking over my shoulder now) oh yes three Phalaenopsis hybrids that have reflowered and sevral in bid including my tiny Phalaenopsis.

Going to start feeding them flower feed more often now.

There are several Phalaenopsis in flower with several others still slowly growing spikes. The usual suspects are there like the Vanda coerulea, Vanda denisoniana (now growing better), Trichoglottis pusilla (now growing faster), Bulbuphyllum, Dendrobium vitoriae-reginea (now has cane much taller than the first ones), two Masdevallia and that new Cattleya and tiny Moth Orchid in with a spike.

I think the Cattleya is a Burana Beauty type? One Masdevallia is red and white but not sure what the other one is yet until it flowerrs, was purchased blindly. Cattleyas are sometimes known as Corsage Orchids.

NEW ARRIVALS OF MASDEVALLIA & CATTLEYA

Wow would you believe it?!

I have pondered about Masdevallias for some time, they are very nice but do not really look like Orchids and I do like that typical Orchid look that you get with Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium, Cymbidium and like that of another new arrival is the Cattleya!

Now I have never had much luck with Cymbidiums, flowering, and Cattleya, keeping them alive for more than a year?!?!

But then I have a completely different set up now to what I had then and just the light rigging with the powerful LED bulbs and the large 1 metre x 0.5 metre humidity tray.

So let us hope that the Cattleya lives and then I may go for a couple of species I like like amythystoglossa and aclandiae I think it was?

Unlike last year this year will see a number of arrivals to my home and these Orchid areas, at long last, lol.