Happy New Year! 🎉🥂
2021 came and went and here we are starting a new thread for January 2022!
Let me start with my C. percivaliana, blooming right on schedule. The 4 bloom-spike opens a bit crowded, but the other two spikes opened nicely.
Vandachostylis Prapawan lost the growing point last Spring and I was afraid the plant was toast. But happily it managed to grow a new top over the Summer and now blooms again from the new growth.
Barkeria melanocaulon - is impossible to get a decent picture from the unruly plant. I always grew it bare root, and it blooms through the whole indoor season. Some of the spikes branch out and bloom some more, right into April.
And Dendrochilum javieri has a couple of modest spikes
Ok, let me stop here! Let's all have a healthy and happy 2022 and grow some wonderful Orchids!
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) GROW ORCHIDS!!!
Happy New Year everyone!!!!!
I send my best wishes to everyone for a Bountiful Orchid New Year!!
Ursula, I saw a couple of hundred Cattleya percivalianas in bloom in my 9 years in Florida. Singles, doubles and triple blooms existed, 2 were the norm. But 4?!?!?!?! That's unusual. THAT IS JUST FANTASTIC GROWING for such a beautiful species. It's crowded because you put four buds on a inflorescence!!!
Every body should have those problems.
As a side note: I think I recall seeing maybe two plants, maybe 3, with three blooms! Never once did I see four on a single stem!
Hello (again)
I've been on this forum before but I think I should probably introduce myself here..... And ignore the fact I have been here before
I've never been very interested in orchids, but my dad loves them.
He collects "chinese orchids" (A lot of cymbidiums, mostly Ensifolium).
I like tiny orchids and also the Phalaenopsis (I think I spelled it correct on first try for the first time )
Currently, I don't have many orchids but I'll probably get more in the future.
You will fit right in Alex! This is the friendliest and most active forum I joined. I don't even have a lot of orchids bloom to share but I feel very welcome here!
Alex, I can just envision some really pretty Cymbidium pots with smaller Cymbidiums and perhaps lots of variegated leaves too. I would not be surprised if he is also into Japanese Neofinetia falcata.
Ursula said:Alex, I can just envision some really pretty Cymbidium pots with smaller Cymbidiums and perhaps lots of variegated leaves too. I would not be surprised if he is also into Japanese Neofinetia falcata.
Happy New Year to all my orchid friends here
My new puppy is a handful but I was able to get out and take some photos while he was in a 'Time out' this morning for pestering the older dogs.
This little windowsill sized plant always makes me smile. Lsa. Dick Pippen 'Pink Heaven'
Bulb. Lindsey Paris 'Bills Gift' AM/AOS with the first of 3 spikes open
Wmt. Hamlyn's Glory
Rhy. gigantea 'Orange'.....alledgedly....they must be VERY variable.
Rlc. Chia Lin. this is always difficult for me to bloom , but here it is with one flower.
Lindsey your orchids are beautiful! Rlc Chia Linn is my favorite.
Alex Keep the cymbidium coming! I spent a lot of money on those Costco cymbidiums that are full of blooms. Then they die on me. The 2 pots are beautiful
Oscar was in time out? What did he do, jump up and down on them? Too funny!
Such a lovely show, Lindsey!
Alex, you say "not interesting looking"
I beg to differ, I think these type of Orchids need to be looked at with a different mindset. Just look at a pretty plant in a special container. They are graceful!
Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) GROW ORCHIDS!!!
It's been awhile but I remember seeing them there. Huge plants!!!
I never had that kind of available space. I just remember seeing the standards, the really big Cymbidiums!!!
Strangely I find myself in a place that those plants love, warm sunshine, cool nights and yet no desire to try some. Maybe it is because they won't fit under lights?!?!