Beautiful flowers, Ursula. You seem to grow both warm and cool-loving plants. What do you keep your orchid GH temperature (minimum) in the fall/winter months?

Such lovely pics sure do brighten an gloomy day!!!!!
Mine look much happier after sitting outside & getting good waterings for a couple days.
A couple of the noid Phals are setting new buds so hopefully I'll get some blooms.

Thanks so much!
Jean, so much easier outside, watering and all, isn't it?

Ken, I try to grow intermediate to warm, but yes, there is the occasional cool grower sneaking in. I keep the minimum/night temperature in the greenhouse at 60 degr F and ramp it up to 70 during day time, with the wall fan kicking in at ca 80 degr F. ( the latter happens rarely in Winter, but it is necessary in Spring and early Fall.
I leave Dendrobium kingianums and Cymbidiums outside until we get frost and they have to come inside.
Also, even in my 12 x 20' greenhouse I find small temperature zones, I can take advantage of that. It is coolest at night near the North-facing greenhouse door to the deck, so it will drop there into the fifties. I keep the Neofinetias on that wall and right now that huge Schomburgkia superbiens ( in spike) and some Pleurothallids and similar.
Near one of the vents on the South facing wall conditions are a bit warmer, Rhyncholaelia glauca and digbyana like the Savannah -like conditions there.
Vandas are hanging along the center on a strong bar, little species hang over the Fish tanks for extra humidity and so on. I move things around a lot too - moving blooming plants to the front of the greenhouse or downstairs into the living room.

OK, thanks for the info. I too have my thermostat set at 60F in both GH's, but I know the upper 1/2 stays about that (the thermostat is mounted 7" high) and the lower 1/2 often will be 55F and even 50F if it gets down in the mid to lower 20's (and we have already had 16 nights in that range and more predicted over the next 10 days). Nothing is on the floor of my "orchid" GH other than a couple of trays of bromeliads, and the bromeliads seem to do well at that lower temperature. All my orchids are on shelving or hung starting at 3' and then going to 5' and 7' high.

I was in a big hurry to get a quick picture of my Bl. Richard Mueller opening its first of several spikes today. This one doesn't seem to have any dots on the lip, but the dots seem to be a variable trait with this as well as many of the crosses with Richard as a parent. First pic is a really bad shot of the new flower, (sorry it's windy out there and it wouldn't keep still). Second and third is my Yellow Bird which is a child of Richard, c/w flowers on the same plant with and without dots on the lip. Flowers are about to drop on this one, and the color is quite orange now.

Nice to see the actual Richard Mueller!

Some blooms here -
My Brassavola Little Stars opened a bunch of spikes, it smell so nice in the evening here, as I took it into the living room. It is doing a little better this year for me.


Probably the last picture of Blc Chia Lin 'New City' before it starts drooping


I brought this Dendrobium kingianum v. silcockii also into the living room, this one scents everything mainly in the morning to noontime. Still has a lot more buds to go.


Cute little blooms on my Dendrobium moniliforme Miyakohime


Ceratostylis rubra is only occasionally not in bloom somewhere


and Ceratostylis philippinensis has a few blooms this Winter, never really a whole slew of them. The tiny blooms smell spearminty.

Love the 'Little Stars'. Mine sadly has expired from black rot. When I get another I'm going to mount it right away! None of my mounted orchids had any problems with black rot this summer.

The Ceratostylis are both just gorgeous plants, Ursula.

Little Richard has about 5 spikes coming along, hoping for a better picture tomorrow!

Nice show, Ursula. My Little Stars still has a few blooms but it is about finished. Same with my Chia Lin. I love Dendrobium kingianum cross. It really does well for you. What a pretty flower on the Ceratostylis. Good growing.

Overcast and rainy here most of the day but clearing now. Temps down into the 50s tonight with this cold front. I have pictures to take but didn't get to it today. Perhaps tomorrow.

Jim

Love the show, Ursula. Dendrobium moniliforme Miyakohime is on my list. Love the coloring

Thanks!
Elaine, the Little Stars is in chunks of Ecoweb in an Ecoweb basket which I had placed years ago into a metal basket. This whole thing dries up so quick, I even water it daily while it is downstairs/not in the greenhouse.

Oh btw, I had mentioned that I see practically no Scale on my Orchids this year, but I do encounter the occasional Mealybug….. I was looking at the first of the Den moniliforme pictures, which I will repeat here. I was wondering what the two little strings on the right blossom were, it just wasn't quite right. Take a closer look, if you will…… the rest of the plant is clean. I suppose, I need to take my sharp forceps to this little blossom!!

Ted, some of the fancier Den moniliforme do fine for me, but my best grower of these by far is my plain Den moniliforme which is mounted! That one just grows and blooms well. I think I might mount this one too.

I've been over in anticipation thread and reported on loss to winter burning of quite a few well established catts. The sun is very low, it was cloudy when I left them in the south window but I am mighty upset with this loss.
How do I know if they will get mushy or should I just discard all those with severe burns? I estimate I have lost all 16 that have stem and leaf burns. The light is to bad now to take pictures to let you see so as to advise, sorry.

While I was in Corinth I uploaded several specie coelogyne and my Mexipedium to the database. These had bloomed winter and all summer long for mexi. I'll post here and try to relax with y'all. Comfort in this great group!
This is Dimorphis ( not sue of name), but it has male flowers first then a space and diffent colored female flowers on same spike. Very interesting indeed. First one I actually saw of this plant in bloom.








These are lycaste creunata I believe blooming last Feb.

Bert - that Dimorphis is amazing!!!!!
Sorry to hear about all your sun-burn problems. I've had that happen to a few and have just removed the affected leaves. Somce came back & some didn't. I wouldn't toss them till I gave them a chance to recover.

Bert, don't dispair about the burns. I would "wait and see" before I toss out anything or cut off the damage. Your plants may not look that pretty with damaged leaves, but the new growth will be fine, especially on the Cattleyas.

I saw your entries regarding the Mexipedium xerophyticum and the Coelogyne species, very, very nice! I am happy you posted them here too for us to see! The Mexipedium looks great!

I would think this is Dimorphorchis lowii as in here, yours looks awesome! That's a winner!!
http://www.orchidspecies.com/d...

The Dimorphorchis is fantastic, Bert. Look at all those flowers! Be sure to keep us updated on the new flowers as they change over.

Good morning, the Dimorphorchis was presented at Memphis Society show and tell session the same day that Art Chadwick presented his slides on First Ladies Orchids. Maybe Aug or Sept. I have been on the hunt for a Dimorph since, I don't know the gentleman who is the grower because I am not a regular goer to the Memphis Group. I've always worked on weekends so could not attend. I got my Mexi last spring from Marilyn LeDoux on day trip to her GH in MO. I am posting this in database.

I have all the plants segregated, and will watch for mush. My ghwBush 'Waldor' has leaves that look like position ivy blisters but the stems are fine. Also the plants that I haven't cleaned-up by removing new growth mature sheathing did not burn on the stems under this layer. Maybe more will be ok.

Bert

Hey, I have a Cattleya lueddemanniana ‘Arthur Chadwick’ about to bloom (if the rodents don't eat it first). Is that the same guy? How cool!

Also, Dad burned a bunch of my orchids when he was pressure washing the house this summer and so far, so good. I haven't lost any but they don't look too pretty. I think as long as they have a few viable leaves on them, they should make it.

Hi Mel, yes it's the same family, the Catt you have I believe was named for his father. This Art is about my age, 50's, early 60 max. At least he doesn't look any older, Ursula May know more about this company since they are in NJ.

Bert

Well, that's neat. It must be cool to have an orchid named after you or a family member.

Melanie, it may be cool but you pay handsomely for the honor.