Ursula, yes. I was wondering if this is the same variety I rescued from my co worker last year. She was so impressed I returned it to her with a little keiki and she said the keiki is doing well. To be honest wih you, I wish I knew what I did different. All I know is it was so dehydrated I kept soaking it with rainwater and super thrive. And when it plumped up, I gave it a mild dosage of food and superthrive for a couple months and itsurprised me with a keiki.
Another spike from Rth. Psycho Bride opened overnight from the comfort of the newly acquired rolling rack in the dining room ...
I rarely get to see keikei's..it sure is exciting when it happens though!
someone on another FB site ( Florida Orchid Growers) is at a show and just posted this picture
without a name....and , of course, I MUST HAVE IT!
I made a nice comment about the bunch of pictures she took and asked that she go back and get the name of that one!
Ugly day here in paradise as it is cold, dark and a light but steady rain. Just like last year, dry season is a wash out.
Out in the OC, my only Miltonia related orchid is blooming. I usually kill Miltonias straight away but this one keeps hanging around. Here is Miltonidium [Mtdm.] Robin Pittman (Miltonia spectabilis x Oncidium Les Landes). Perhaps it is the Oncidium that helps it survive.
Jim
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Ken, nice fragrance but you have to get close to it to notice. I know I should repot but I am so delighted that it's still alive that I'm afraid to mess with it and now it is even blooming! I have it wedged between two other plants so it stays upright. If I ever want to show it, I'll have to repot.
I just posted some palm and cycad pics over on the tropics forum if anyone wants to see them.
Jim
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Lindsey, I can see why you are smitten with that Cattleya!
Gigi, I had to edit your post/ quote, because I had misspelled the Tubecentron Niu Girl pretty badly. No wonder I had trouble looking it up.I just fished myself through some pages of "Girl" focusing on "T "at the RHS. Here it is http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...
I don't know enough of the growing characteristics of those parents. But, I will be very happy if I can keep it healthy and growing.
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
I've already seen your beautiful palms over there, Jim. The Miltonidium is a really great color.
I have variable results with those guys too, so last time I had to re-pot one that kept falling over, I just soaked it, eased it out of the pot and straight into its new pot before it knew what happened. Sneaky-like, you know? It has stayed happy and now stands up too, thanks to the weight of the new clay pot I put it in. Didn't even add any new medium, (the old stuff looked fine) so it has a narrow air space all around the old root ball now which it seems to really like.
Hey, what happened with the orchid you potted up in the sponge pot?
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
That orchid is doing fine. The problem is the sponge is turning black with mold. I need to figure out how to kill the mold without harming the orchid. Either that or try to remove the plant and repot it.
Jim
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Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
If that plant has half a (plant) brain . . it will have roots all into the lovely sponge, won't it?
Maybe try dunking it in a mild h2o2 solution? Hmm, wonder if it would affect the sponge as well as the mold? Maybe try putting some peroxide on a small spot on the sponge with an eye dropper and see what happens, first? Then if it kills off the mold but doesn't nix the sponge in the process, you're golden. Dunk it!
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
So true, about 20 of mine went for a leisurely swim on Wednesday afternoon. We've just about got all the bits and pieces out of the pool now . . . and everyone seems none the worse for their dunking.
Love that wild orchid, Glen. I went to the database to look it up and there's only one picture with no flower there - would you consider posting your nice pic to the Database?
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Name: Glen Ingram Macleay Is, Qld, Australia (Zone 12a) (Lee Reinke X Rose F Kennedy) X Unk
Ursula, there are three patches of them in my urban block that somehow have survived development. When the leaves emerge each year, I put hanging baskets over them to prevent them being trampled. This one comes up every year through plastic lining and gravel.
Elaine, I am having trouble photographing them well. For some reason the camera keeps on concentrating on the background leaving the flowers out of focus even though it is set on macro. Just now, I put a kitty litter tray behind and tried again. A bit better.
I like that a lot! We do something similar at our woods. We have so many patches of Cyp acaule that we don't have to protect them, same for Spiranthes cernua, but a rarer Platanthera lacera gets a cage around it.
Thought I post some more of the cute little Tubecentron Niu Girl, the tiny blooms are now fully open.
And here is a first bloomer for me, (and the new growths are clean) Ctt (Slc) Tutankamen 'Pop'.
Caulaelia/Dialaelia Mizoguchi 'Princess Kiko' is working on three spikes
And I am happy I was able to get a division from Silva Orchids - this is the recently acquired Bardendrum Nanboh Pixy x Terusan. I like it a lot!
A single spike on a small plant of Stenorrhynchos speciosum
And Stenosarcos Vanguard 'Fireball' takes its sweet time
This little Restrepia landsfeldii is one of the happy little campers above the fish tank and I dunk it once in a while into the bucket while I clean out the tank. ( which I clean twicea week, because I took in my grandchildren's then little goldfish. That was in the Fall and now half of the Goldfish's tail fin is about the same size as the Paradise Fish. Amazingly they get along well, but the Goldfish is rapidly outgrowing his 40 gallon environment and really needs to go outside soon....)
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
What a wonderful show today, Ursula! Every time your Stenosarcos Vanguard 'Fireball' blooms I think what a gorgeous, graceful plant it is. Princess Kiko is no slouch either in the graceful department.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Just before my back surgery I bought up a complete collection of a hobbyist grower which consisted of 10-12 varieties, a total of 20 plants. There are a few that are still seedlings, but most are blooming size or near blooming size. Unfortunately, as is the case with most hobbyist growers, there are only 1-2 plants of any one variety. This was where the 'Pop' came from, though I purchased this one along with five other varieties last summer. Whoops, I see I don't have the 'Pop'. It was sold in the fall. My bad!
drdawg (Dr. Kenneth Ramsey)
The reason it's so hard to lose weight when you get up in age is because your body and your fat have become good friends.
it will have roots all into the lovely sponge, won't it?
Did you come across it during a walk?
and everyone seems none the worse for their dunking.
