Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Some more pictures from Montreal show

Paph. Cloud's Pink Parfait


Paph. venustum


Paph. sukhakhili


Paph. Shatchen


Paph. lowii var. album


Monday, October 20, 2014

Eastern Canada orchid show 2014


Paph. Hung Sheng Brown Eagle


Paph. helenae


Phrag. Grande


Phrag. Creek Cascade


Aerangis


Dendrobium


Group of paphs


Paph. Fumi's Delight


New paphs from the show

I got a few new paphiopedilums at the Montreal show last weekend. They are all parvisepalum type.
Paphiopedilum emersonii, 4 seedlings from Ten Shin gardens:



Paph. micranthum var. eburneum, 4 seedlings from Ten Shin also:



And three mature plants, vietnamense, Mem. Larry Heuer and Wossner China Moon:


Sunday, October 5, 2014

Paph. hangianum seedlings update

I deflasked them in March 2014. Here I found a picture of a tray with larger seedlings from May 2014:



Since then seedlings from tray were moved to pots. I know that it would be better to let them be in that tray for as long as possible, but about a month ago I discovered a scale on one of the seedlings in the tray. I freaked out and splitted them into pairs to control the infestation better. I was checking them every day and wiping the leaves with alcohol every three days for a month. Now it seems that scale might be gone, but plants probably got a major setback with transferring into pots and stressing the leaves with alcohol.
Here they are now:



Interesting, that I have four flasks of other paphiopedilum types seedlings in the same tank but none of those were affected. It's like stupid bugs knew to attack the most expensive ones!