QUEEN VICTORIA & HIEROGLYPHIC ORCHIDS

Well the Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is currently putting on its best ever show and even with the nineteen flowers all currently open it might just get a little bit better?

This is because there are no less than ten buds on it that have not opened and half of these not far from opening.

There are a couple of new canes that have sprouted from it but no roots yet, or Keikis. Not sure if this species likes having its keikis (new canes with roots) removed. I have done this with Dendrobium nobile but not looked it up with Dendrobium victoriae-reginaee.

Even if you can I am not sure that I would ... not yet anyway but if it ends up producing another haf a dozen then I might.

I do like this orchid.

I also like my species Phalaenopsis though I have only flowered to of the five or six that I have thus far. The fact that the Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica is now flowering fills me with confidence that the violacea, zebrina and sumatrana will do this year or next year too!

My Schoenorchis is still spiking with two spikes this year. That will make a cool little video.

Maybe my Trichoglottis pusilla will spike soon also? I seem to recall it flowering a little after the others did when it first flowered?

THE PHALAENOPSIS PARISHII VIDEO

Here is a video of my Phalaenopsis doouble spkiking and you can see the buds.

THE PHALAENOPSIS PARISHII DOUBLE SPIKING

Well this little guy hit me with both barrells recently and decided to release each one a few days apart.

FIrst I could quite not believe it when I spotted what was surely a spike rising up and then a few days later a second one!

Now I have had this guy two years now and was a seedling when I receieved it. I hope its a good sign that all my other species of Phalaenopsis (zebrina, hieroglyphica, sumatrana, violacea, bellina) may all now start spiking?!

Oh now would that not make for a very cool year of 2014 if they all did, or even most?! lol!

PHALAENOPSIS HIEROGLYPHICA NEW ROOTS

My seedling Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica is starting to look more like less of a seedling and more like a plant mature enough to produce flowers.

But I still think it has one more leaf and a couple of months to go before it reaches that stage, if we get any warm weather that is?!?!

Still that biggest leaf is a fair size now and new roots are emerging so I expect a speed up in the leaf production to start in the next week or two!

If you happen to be comparing it with previous pictures on previous posts I should point out that the pot you see in these pictures is one that it was moved into recently one that is a standard size, 5 inch I think, that you will see all the hybrid Phalaenopsis Orchids in at your local supermarket!

Not the little ones either the standard size Moth Orchid pots as this is what it was from! So it has probably at least doubled in size.

VIDEO: TINY TROPICAL VIVARIUM FOR SPECIES PHALAENOPSIS

My tiny Heated Greenhouse for my species Phalaenopsis of hieroglyphica, bellina, violacea, sumatrana, zebrina & parishii. Also my Trichoglottis pusilla & tiny Schoenorchis fragrans...