Phal. Lyndon Red Sun

It turns out that Phalaenopsis Sogo Lawrence x Kung's Red Cherry cross that I entered recently actually has a name.
It was registered in 2011 as Phalaenopsis Lyndon Red Sun.
Unfortunately google image search on this name didn't yeld any results either. So I still have no idea what the blooms would look like.
Well, at least I know its name now. And the name suggests that it could be red...

PS: As I was updating my current orchids list, I noticed that I have at least three hybrids with Lyndon prefix. Search through the register showed 10 dtps and 32 phals registered with names starting with Lyndon by Lyndon Lin - an orchid grower from Taiwan.

Phal. Buena Jewel x equestris 'alba'

This phal was racing the spikes with Vio Vio and I was wondering which one opens first.
Well, even though Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel came in second, and opened today - it is still pretty.




Thanks to the post on the Orchid Board with picture of this cross, I expected something similar, so no disappointment here.



I think mine has a bit different shape.

Phalaenopsis Vio Vio

The bloom opened today:



It has very pleasant fragrance.



Phal Vio Vio = Phal Jungo Viotris x Phal violacea.

Phalaenopsis Sogo Lawrence x Kung's Red Cherry

I don't really like the flowers of Sogo Lawrence that much, but I do like the blooms of Kung's Red Cherry a lot. I could not find any pictures of their cross, so there is a chance that I will not like it.

For now it is a mature plant with red tinged leaves. Leaves are hard and remind me those of the noid phals. There is no spike, but I think plant is large enough to bloom.

Phal. Cassandra possible problem

Phalaenopsis Cassandra has been here for a couple months and seems to be adjusting well. It started to grow a new leaf and there are couple of new root nubs.



One day I was watering it and looked on the leaves underside. To my unpleasant surprise I found these sunken spots on two of the leaves - the older ones:



It is somewhat isolated from other phals and I monitored it for over a month now - the spots didn't change, didn't spread, and stay as they were when discovered. I am sure they were there when the plant arrived, it is just hard to see because of the pattern on the leaves - the spots are not visible from the top.
What could it be and is it dangerous to other phals?
It doesn't seem to bother plant, it shows the nice healthy growths and newest mature leaf is clean.
I would hate to throw it away, but will if it is something bad.

My princesses

Couple plants of Phalaenopsis Princess Kaiulani. Got them because this is kind of cross that I will buy anytime I see one for sale. I am not sure what clone it is or maybe it is just a seed cross, so there will be element of mystery when and if they bloom.

Phal. Princess Kaiulani II:



Phal. Princess Kaiulani III:



And just to have all my princesses in this post here is an update for my original PK from Crystal Star. It is doing fine and growing a new leaf:

Phal. venosa x Gelblieber

Here is another Brother Gelblienosa, but this time - the other way around. I am not totally sure if the order of the names in the cross makes a difference in flower appearance. I hope so, because that's the reason I got both - Gelblieber x venosa and venosa x Gelblieber.




There are decent roots, shiny leaves and two spike starts. Although smaller spike is blackened at the tip, so I guess it doesn't really count, but hopefully the larger one is still good:



Would be cool if both Gelblienosas bloom together.

Phalaenopsis hybrid with really long name

That's probably what you would call a complex hybrid:
Phalaenopsis Chang Maw Evergreen 'U-Bix' x P. {Tzu Chiang Litlitz x P. (Buena Jewel x Peach State Red)} x P. (Su-An Super Star x George Vasquez)
I don't even know how to break this label down to actual parents with all kinds of braces.
Anyway, here is the plant:




There is a spike, but the end of it is sort of crooked almost 90 degrees:



I wonder how would that happen and is it still good?

Phal. cornu-cervi 'Burma'

Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi 'Burma' came mounted on the small square piece of the metal net.



Oops! It actually hangs with spike down, but for some reason Blogger rotated the picture to the left and I have no idea how to fix it.
Anyway.
I don't like mounting in my conditions - the humidity is too low, but this guy's best and longest root grew through the net, so to take it off the mount would mean - risking to break that root. So I kept it on.
The moss on the mount was black and mushy, I carefully picked it out and replaced with the fresh sphagnum.
I plan to mist it every day, maybe twice.
Hope it will live.
I don't know what the word 'Burma' means on the label. Would have to search for some info if it is out there.

Phalaenopsis amboinensis x hieroglyphica

This cute plant is a cross of amboinensis and hieroglyphica. I think it could be interesting - parents have totally different patterns and google search shows quite a variety of blooms from such a cross.



This hybrid was actually registered in 2004 under the name: Phalaenopsis Frenchy's Plastic Yellow. I am not particularly thrilled about the name, mostly because of the word "plastic", but what can you do.

Plant is in a good shape, there are some healthy roots with growing points inside the pot, new leaf is growing and, the most exciting - there is a spike already. It is an old spike and not active right now, but I hope it won't dry and will produce some blooms.

Phal. Equalacea x amboinensis

I actually got both Equalacea x amboinensis and Equalacea x venosa, just to see a difference and because they both could be fragrant. Well, one of them - Equalacea x venosa is either dead or is masking under "missing tag" plant.

The other one - Phal. Equalacea x amboinensis is here:



Doesn't look that great either, but at least it is still alive.

This cross was registered last year under the name Lyndon Ambrosial Offering. So I guess it should be logged under this name here too.

Phalaenopsis Vio Vio

I can clearly see the color on the bud, it is purplish:



It is almost ready to open:



Obviously I can't wait:

Phalaenopsis speciosa C1

I realized that I forgot to enter my Phal. speciosa C1 that came from Kingfisher Orchids back in May. It has a broken leaf from shipment and two spikes.



Since arrival it managed to blast a bud at the end of larger spike. After that I placed it into propagation tray that keeps higher humidity and looks like the smaller spike and two small branches on the big sike are activated and growing.
Will see what comes out of it.
Now, I already have Phal. tetraspis C1 from Ten Shin Gardens, but am not sure if it is the same species, because this one reads Phal. speciosa C1.

So both tetraspis and speciosa have C1 variety or what? Any ideas?

Phalaenopsis Samera

This one is totally against my latest rule - buy only mature plants. But I let it slip. Cross of bellina and violacea is Phal. Samera. I don't see them for sale very often, otherwise I'd have a dozen already.



Should be nicely fragrant.
This seedling is very small - pot size is 1 inch, and not in prime conditions. Oh well, I will give it a chance.

Phalaenopsis bellina

Yet one more bellina because, well, you can't have too many violaceas and bellinas.



Some damage on the leaf looks like something ate it. It doesn't seem to spread, stays the same as at arrival times. New leaf is coming out clean.



It is probably young plant and not ready to bloom yet.

Phal. hybrid with missing tag

Well, actually tag is not missing, but rather was misplaced. It can be either Phal. Gelblieber x venosa(I bought two of those) or Phal. Equalacea x venosa.




One of them looked almost dead, the other was being potted. They both were out of pots, tags mixed up, and I had no idea which plant belongs to which tag. I threw away the one that looked bad and this one can be one of those two names.




Unfortunately I don't have enough knowledge to id it by the look of the leaves.
If anybody can - please do.
Otherwise I'd have to wait until it blooms. So for now it is logged under Phal. hybrid with missing tag.


Update. Here is the picture of my labeled Gelblieber x venosa to compare:



They do look similar, don't they?

Phalaenopsis Ambonosa

Phal. Ambonosa is a primary hybrid between amboinensis and venosa species. Should be nice and fragrant.
It is a small plant still:


But it seems to be establishing here - there is some new growth showing up.



Can't wait for it to mature and bloom!

Buds update and why they don't blast

I am very happy with my budding phals. Their progress is so obvious and buds still didn't drop (it usually happens to the most of my phals).
This is the Phal Vio Vio, it is now clear that there should definitely be two blooms:



Spike on the cross of Buena Jewel and equestris alba grew more and it now looks like I will have not one but three!!! flowers (if everything goes well, of course):



All of this is very unusual for me because normally the buds on my phals would grow to some degree and then wilt and drop (happened on fasciata 'Shaffers' and speciosa C1). Well, the reason of all the buds misfortunes was a low humidity. I mean it seems to be fine for noIds but fancy named ones like it more humid.
Recently I bought a flask of phal babies and was looking to buy the humidity trays for deflasking times. When I bought some - I realized that they are large enough to fit mature plants too. Needless to say, I went and bought some more and now my phals seem happy. The trays have see-through domes with ventilation holes that can be opened and closed. With opened holes they keep steady 80% humidity.

Here is how they look:



And with dome on:



Now our house is overfloated with those little orchid houses and I need to water them not as often as before.

Phalaenopsis flask update

Well, I am just posting here pictures so I could ask on the forum if planlets look crowded and have to be deflasked. I bought the flask a month ago, and I can see that babies grew since then.
To my newbies eye they look crowded and I am itching to take them out, but then I also don't want to cause their death because I took them out too early.
So here are the pics:












Update:
According to the knowledgeable folks on the Orchid Board, I should leave plants in for at least a month or maybe more. Until there is no more head space. Apparently they like to be crowded.

Phalaenopsis bellina ('Ingrid Ohh' x 'Joy' AM/AOS)

Slow but steady Phalaenopsis bellina ('Ingrid Ohh' x 'Joy' AM/AOS) is growing one new leaf after another.

Scared me a bit recently - one leaf showed a see through patch at the tip. I promptly cut it and it seems to be fine now.
I like how roundish and shiny the new leaves come out.

Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel II

This is the second Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel I got in my attempts to see the variation in blooms of the same cross. It is the cross of Phal. Buena Jewel and equestris alba and flowers can be quite unpredictable. Well, this one requires a lot of nursing before I might be able to see any flowers.



The good news is - there is a new root and a new leaf is coming out too.



Would be cool if the flowers were totally different from the number one plant. If they will appear the same - I will just sell one of them.

Javanicas

Both Phalaenopsis javanica plants started to grow a new leaf:



Couple black spots on one of them worry me a bit. Will see if they grow in size or not. Might have to cut half of the leaf off.

Phal. Coral Isles x corningiana

Phalaenopsis Coral Isles x corningiana came with all kinds of problems - rotted and dried out roots, black splothes on the leaf, but there was also a spike.
I had to cut the big portion of a mature leaf and sprinkle the cinnamon on the cut. Then I potted it up and let it be.





I wasn't sure if it will make it or not, and should I even bother logging it here. But since after couple weeks it is still alive and now looks like it is pushing a new leaf - here it is.




Now if only it grew some new roots...

Phal. Brother Gelblienosa update

The most exciting part of the update - phal. Brother Gelblienosa has activated spike:



The others - there are also a new leaf and a new root.




I think maybe it establishes better now, after I moved it to a net pot and placed the plant into a propagation tray with dome. The tray keeps humidity at around 80% and it seems my phals like it. At least two of them that grow buds - still didn't blast them.
We'll see if Brother Gelblienosa will be nice enough to produce some flowers now.

Phalaenopsis Lea Marie Salazar 'Tying Shin'

This phal hybrid has a long name - Phal. Lea Marie Salazar 'Tying Shin'.
The leaves have a bit of damage, probably from shipping. There is some strange yellowish patch on the left oldest leaf, I hope it is just from the sun and not something serious.



There are some good roots and a spike.



Hope it will bloom some day. Flowers should be dark purplish red and fragrant.

Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel update

Just wanted to log the progress of a spike branch on this phal.



It grows really fast and already shows little baby buds:



Doesn't mean much because they can still blast.
The end of the old spike doesn't look alive and seems to have a browning point. I don't know if I should cut it off or just let it be.