Ursula, your Bulbophyllum medusae is fantastic. I'm going to have to give mine another pep talk. I showed your Angraecum sesquipedale to mine and it triggered a bloom. It just opened today.
Lindsey, those are beautiful. Nice growing.
Also opening this weekend is L. purpurata werkhauserie 'Monte' X C. gaskelliana.
Jim
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Jim, your Angraecum sesquipedale is gorgeous. Did you smell it at sundown? I walk up the steps in the evening and the scent just hits you!
Nice purpurata x too.
Lc. Fireball Flame 'Jaira Waxy' just opened and all the photo i take aren't as nice as colour as it really is, the lip looks the same colour in the photos but its not.
and P.Gary Romagna X Pinnochio
many more buds to open on him though, another opens as one dies.
Yes, in fact, it seems like I had more free time when I was working. I do the fruit presentation tonight in Plant City, choir practice tomorrow night in Tarpon Springs, and the Florida Lawns presentation Wednesday night in Sun City. My wife thinks I''m crazy and I'm beginning to believe her.
Jim
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I have a question we just got city water in and it will be turned on Thursday and I plan on buying water by the gallon for my plants ( I don't think clorine is very good for them ) should I get distilled water ???
I would just use the city water for now, but I would really flush out the pots once in a while to prevent salt built up, IF you have hard water. If you do have hard water, you might want to consider different water for the delicate small species from the rainforest or similar in your collection. In regards to robust Cattleyas, most Phals etc , city water should be just fine.
thank you Ursula !! at the moment I have a total of 4 3 phals and one cattleya SOME DAY I hope to get more but I don't know where to buy any except at Meijers or twice a year at the shows i went to my first one this fall in November
Coelogyne Memoria Sadako opened another bud, and this time I include a picture of the small plant.
Lc Mary Elizabeth Bohn 'Royal Flare' shows some blooms. This one needs absolutely full sun year around here in NJ to do reasonably well.
One of my gorgeous Christmas presents opened this week - Lc Breen's Jenny Ann 'Cheng Min' FCC/AOS, a real beauty. This needs another picture in different light for sure in a couple of days.
The pink shade on my L alaorii x Lc Minipurple v. coerulea deepened a bit more as the blooms matured.
Cattleya loddigesii 'Shorty' x C. walkeriana 'The Chairman' AM/AOS - picked up from Cal Orchids and it seems to be (in my hands) a lot easier to grow and bloom than C. loddigesii ( at least the one I used to have and tossed) and the blooms are nice, large and clean.
Ascda Fuchs Joy is blooming now again
And there is the tentatively identified Lc Irene Finney X which might be Lc Miss Wonderful - the first of 2 spikes
Last Summer at the Silva Orchid Fest Oak Hill Garden had a grab box with bare root Liparis pieces, cheap enough to give them a shot. Both of my plants survived, the Liparis viridiflora (bought as longipes) opened very slowly a first spike. The plant has a lot of growing to do to live up to its potential, but I do like already the tiny blooms along the spike.
And here is the show that is Schomburgkia ( Laelia) superbiens! 5 out of 6 spikes this year are now open. They are tightly grouped together so the mass of blooms is a bit unruly in my pictures but look really showy in the greenhouse. ( I moved it out to take the pictures)
Great show, Ursula, and thanks for taking up the slack. I'm in a bit of a lull with old blooms and young spikes. Yes, the Schomburkia (I still like the way that word rolls off the tongue, even though it is banned in orchid circles) is a beauty. I think it was Kathy that once described it as a Cattleya on steriods. I also like the nice "Shorty" cross and your wonderful Lc Christmas gift. I'm afraid to ask my wife for an orchid gift as she would probably get one of those blue phals from HD.
I've given three MG presentations in the last week, all in far off corners of the county and all at night (7PM start). I'm ready for a quiet weekend.
Jim
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I also like the nice "Shorty" cross and your wonderful Lc Christmas gift. I'm afraid to ask my wife for an orchid gift as she would probably get one of those blue phals from HD. 
