A FEW ORCHIDS IN BUD & FLOWER

Here are some of my Orchids currently flowering and in bud ...

 Samurai Orchid, Neofinetia falcata ...

 Few Phalaenopsis hybrids ...

Queen Victoria's Orchid, Dendrobium victoriae-reginae..

SOME ORCHID BUDS & FLOWERS

It is true to say I have been a little ... preoccupied with regards a subject that my most popular blog covers.

This has held back my other blogs somewhat, along with the highly variable weather, especially my British wildlife blog.

This s because something has occurred several months earlier than ... well, than I expected it to in all honesty by about 6 months. This is a very big thing and though I do mention this on the blog in question I do not go into detail. Just trust me it is big and over the next couple of months it will change everything. For the better.

I have to be even more preoccupied than ever before with this said subject and for at least a month ... maybe three or four. It is simply impossible to say. Despite the in depth knowledge I have within this particular blog's posts and it may seem like I can predict, work out and appear to know everything ... well, I do not. Some things I literally have to take a stab at and hope I am in the ballpark. From time to time I am not.

Sometimes these stabs are completely obvious by which then I will state so.

But before I get preoccupied with this other ... matter I decided that recent activity with my Orchids should be posted up before things go a bit ... well, nuts.

I have several Orchids in flower and an even greater number with buds and I only hope that I manage to catch those in flower in the coming weeks in picture and film and post on the Internet.

I have several Moth Orchids, Phalaenopsis, in flower and a few in bud.

I have also now, this morning, noticed that my Dendrobium victoriae-reginae has a few buds on it and I dare say more will appear over the next couple of weeks?

My Vanda coerulea is in bud, or the very early stages, and I fear this one might be missed, though it is several weeks from producing flowers.

Here are a few pictures and videos of them ...

Dendrobium victoriae-reginae ..

Ahh yes ... new LED bulbs I spotted in Sainsury's Homebase for stupidly cheap money and very high wattage. Well high for an LED. AT £6 each I decided to get TWO! They are 20W each so now are hooked up alongside my 16W and 19W Toshiba E-Core bulbs. It is VERY bright now, lol. 

Annoyingly I have been trying to add new E-Cores for two years but the prices have increased markedly and I have been pushed for time too.

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 ...

THE CYMBIDIUMS BUDS ARE OPENING

Well at long last the flowers are slowly appearing and the first lot of buds I spotted have been overtaken. One of the two spikes on one Cymbidium has had about three buds open with a few left on one spike, The other spike has had none of the buds open as yet.

The other one is turning out to be a red Cymbidium which I thought was a Lilac Cymbidium that today I started to recall a vision of throwing that particular Cymbidium out?! Odd, but then I do have this damned condition that cuses short term memory loss. Mind you it would have been over a year ago I thrrew it out.

I was expecting one of the three Cymbidiums that were orihginally one plant to be the one with the bigger buds but these are canary yellow flowers whereas these are clearly red. I purchased the two now flowering at the exact same time, oddly enough?!

I did a little video and will do another when all the buds have opened..

THE RETURN OF THE VANDA COERULEA & PAPHIOPEDILUM PRIMULINUM

After its best part opf a year sulk, due to carbon monoxide that I bloody well knew they would not like, the Blue Orchid of Vanda coerulea has flowered once again.

Now rather bizarrely it is at a totally different part of the year it has flowered before and it is in flower right now. Added to this is the fact that it only has two flowers and is by far the worst show of flowers it has had since I obtained it!

I am entirely convinced that in a few months it will flower again and will have over double the amount of flowers it has this time around.

Also and like the Bulbophyllum earlier in the year it bloody well flowered with both the flowers facing the wall!

Typical!

Also you will see my species Phalaenopsis still surviving in the video and my newly acquired Paphiopedilum primulinum which is a miniature sized Slipper Orchid flowers thats bright yellow?!

My brother very kindly purchased this for me at McBean's Nursey just outside Lewes in East Sussex when we found ourselves their unexpectedly just before Christmas.

I picked up those Odontoglossums in those tiny flasks (Urine Specimen Bottles) which should turn out to have a yellow flower in two years or so when they do flower?