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Name: Ursula Fair Lawn NJ, zone 6b              |
| We came from here The thread "🐥Our Orchid Blooms in April 2018🐥" in Orchids forum Today is May 1. and with that we need a new thread!  Let me start with my second plant of Cattleya skinneri albescens var. occulata 'Debbie' opening a bunch of spikes.   Domingoa haematochila is a cute miniature, this one just started the new blooming season.  This Encyclia Borincana x bractescens is a smallish plant, hopefully it will have longer spikes down the road.   And this little Restrepia landsbergii throws out a couple of cute blooms here and there.  Please all join in and post away! |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut!            BigBill May 1, 2018 7:41 AM CST |
| Man, I am going to have to try growing more miniatures Ursula, you inspire me to buy, buy, buy!!! Thanks for the new thread. I forgot all about May 1st. "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
Name: Ursula Fair Lawn NJ, zone 6b |
| Bill, I have a bunch of these mini species clustered together and just flood them daily with rain water, many seem to like that. I gave up on Masdevallias and other cool growing Pleurothallids, because I grow in Summer outside and a NJ Summer is just too hot for them. |
Name: lindsey wesley chapel, fl    sugarcane May 1, 2018 10:04 AM CST |
| Wow! What a blizzard of blooms on your skinneri, Ursula! Is that one fragrant? This just opened for me yesterday. I got it from a club member that was downsizing her collection, and this is its first bloom. C. Dal's Moon X C. Garrett Collins  It doesn't look much like the images I've found online, and I'm more than a little concerned about the unsymmetrical dark purple bit on the lip. What do you guys think? lindsey |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut! BigBill May 1, 2018 10:23 AM CST |
| I understand that uniformity might be nice but the possible unpredictability of the darker purple is kind of cool too! Might be either temperature or light intensity controlled. But the fact that it may change with every blooming is special in my mind. I like it a lot!!  "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
Name: lindsey wesley chapel, fl sugarcane May 1, 2018 11:14 AM CST |
 This was the image I found on google...do you think it might be mis - tagged, Bill? lindsey |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut! BigBill May 1, 2018 11:33 AM CST |
| That's is Dal's Moon X Garrett Collins? I'll look into it when I get back home this evening. "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
Name: Jim Hawk Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b)         hawkarica May 1, 2018 3:13 PM CST |
We were off to a fabulous start until I dropped the ball. I've been watching this orchid open for the last few days and went out to take the pictures today. There's no tag. I just can't believe it. If anyone has a clue, please let me know.    Jim "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." -- Steven Leacock |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut! BigBill May 1, 2018 3:22 PM CST |
| Jim I think that your plant might be Cattleya peckhaviensis, a hybrid of Cattleya aclandiae X Cattleya schilleriana. I have had three or four of them bloom and they look just like yours. All three of mine had the same white side lobes to the lip. This was one of mine. "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change        dyzzypyxxy May 1, 2018 4:35 PM CST |
| Whatever it is, it's a beauty, Jim and your pictures are wonderful. Elaine "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill |
Name: Ursula Fair Lawn NJ, zone 6b |
I love this one!! Super showy!!  |
Name: Carol Santa Ana, ca Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A.     ctcarol May 2, 2018 1:01 PM CST |
 Leptotes bicolor still not fully opened but from 80 last week to 60s this week and cloudy, the first blooms will probably be done by the time the rest open. |
Name: Ursula Fair Lawn NJ, zone 6b |
| Oh this is nice!! I sure love this one too Carol! |
Name: Ted Brea, CA (Zone 10b)        Ted5310 May 2, 2018 2:07 PM CST |
| Outstanding, Carol. Good growing |
Name: lindsey wesley chapel, fl sugarcane May 2, 2018 2:27 PM CST |
| Beautiful Carol! I've never seen one with so many blooms lindsey |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut! BigBill May 2, 2018 2:30 PM CST |
Great job Carol, way to go!!!!  "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
Name: Carol Santa Ana, ca Sunset zone 22, USDA zone 10 A. ctcarol May 2, 2018 3:03 PM CST |
| Thanks guys, but I think Ursula's looked better. This yo- yo weather is tough on my orchids. |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut! BigBill May 2, 2018 3:15 PM CST |
| It may have. However your plant is absolutely full of flowers! How can one expect to do better than plant = lots of flowers?? "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
Name: Jim Hawk Odessa, Florida (Zone 9b) hawkarica May 2, 2018 3:39 PM CST |
| After some research, I think I will take Bill's suggestion and dub my NOID Cattleya C. Peckhaviensis. Thanks Judge Bill! Jim "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it." -- Steven Leacock |
Name: Bill Livonia, Michigan (Zone 6a) Orchid Nut! BigBill May 2, 2018 4:23 PM CST |
| Your are welcome Jim. She is a beauty! "Our children are the messages we send to a time that we will never see." |
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