Big haul from orchid show in Montreal

On Saturday we drove to Montreal for an annual orchid show held by Eastern Canada Orchid Society. It was not a big show but had wonderful plants on the display and of course lots of orchid vendors. I made a pretty large purchase overall. Here is the list of what I bought:
Aeranthes ramosa(with spike)
Bulbophyllum lasiochilum
Bulbophyllum Kalimpong
Bulbophyllum eberhardtii
Masdevallia amplexa
Masdevallia xantina
Vanda cristata
Vanda sanderiana
Vanda tessellata
Vanda tricolor v. suavis f. alba (flask)
Vanilla planifolia variegata

New purchases from Paramount Orchids

I made a small order online, just two plants - Vanda javierae and Angraecum magdalenae. They arrived by express post, safe and sound:

New purchases from the show

Two paphs from Piping Rock. Smaller one is the sanderianum seedling, larger one - the blooming sized Prince Edward of York, which is a primary hybrid rothschildianum x sanderianum:



Responsible for this two purchases is my St.Swithin that produced the bud on my window and made me think that I can grow multifloral paphs. I hope the two new ones will follow him...

Four phals. On the back - stuartiana and Mituo Sun King (my second one and totally different from the first one), both are in bloom from Crystal Star.
On the front - Ho's Lovely Amethyst with buds and Princess Kaiulani with spoiled flower, both from Ten Shin Gardens.



Closer view of stuartiana bloom:



Closer view of Mituo Sun King:

New purchases

Here is the group shot of new phals I brought back from the show in Montreal.
On the back left-to right are KS Jadegreen 'Kung sir', Mituo Sun 'Mituo#1' x LD's Bear Queen, phal hybrid with no label.
In the middle, large leaves - gigantea x LD's Bear Queen.
Front - two violaceas. All repotted:


I will post each one separately with more pictures all of them a bit later except one - red phal hybrid. It desperately needs ID. I bought it because it resembled Phal. Lea Marie Salazar that recently died from crown rot. At home I checked pictures of LMS and pretty much sure it is the one. Now just need a confirmation of an expert. I am goingto post following pics in ID section of BLO and see what people say:

Rest of the new plants

Here are the plants that I got from Kingfisher's Orchids:



On the back left to right are - Phal. Vio Vio,Phal. Lea Marie Salazar 'Tying Shin' (both with spike starts) and flask of Phal. Bedford Nonpareil.
Second row - Phal speciosa C1 with two spikes and broken during shipping leaf (hope it will recover) and two freebies: Phal. equestris blue x Siam Treasure with flowers and small seedling of Phal. DTE x Sogo Hollywood.
All repotted into fresh sphagnum:



Closer look of the blooms. Aren't they pretty:



And one more:



Now here are three more new plants:



They are - Masdevallia veitchiana, Paph. Delrosi and small seedling of Laelia lobata alba. I won paph and masdie at the SlipperTalk fundraising auction, they both were donated by user John_M from OrchidsCanada.com and he included free laelia seedling as a bonus. Plants arrived nice and healthy and very well packed, so I am adding OrchidsCanada to a trusted canadian vendors list.

Flask arrival

Fedex delivered the package in time and it was in such a fancy box that I almost wanted to do the "opening box" video as one of those geeks opening new gadget and sniffing it on Youtube.
Inside were a much anticipated flask of Phal. Bedford Nonpareil (P. Penang Girl ‘Ching Ruey’ X P. Princess Kaiulani ‘Chin Yo’ AM), three phals I ordered and two free plants.
I will post about plants later, now about flask.
Ever since I saw that wonderful display of Lowland Juwels at the orchid show, I got this idea to get a flask and grow them all to the blooming size to see the variations in siblings blooms.
Now, I realize that this being my first attempt will not yeld that many of them at the blooming stage, but one should start somewhere and I will be happy if at least couple will survive.
Some pictures of the flask taken in low light, so not very good:







Last picture shows some dried root ends and it bothers me a bit. Maybe I should open it now?

Neofinetia falcata `Shojo`

Little plant of Neofinetia falcata `Shojo` survived the winter shipping and was re-potted into the net pot with sphagnum.
It is in the bright spot and I let the sphag to dry out completely before watering.



It is my first Neofinetia, will see if it will grow here...

Oncidium Sharry Baby

I bought Oncidium Sharry Baby at the show in Montreal. It is a small plant with just two pseudobulbs - I didn't want to pay $30 for adult flowering cultivar.

Brassavola Little Stars

B. Little Stars is a hybrid between Brassavola nodosa and Brassavola cordata. It should have fragrant green/white flowers.
I put it into full sun and it got purplish spots on the foliage. I then moved it behind other catts, hope it will be OK.

More cattleya seedlings

Although I wasn't going to buy more catts, when I saw these on ebay, somehow I forgot that I am all set with cattleyas. I bought three small seedlings:
one Bc. Little Mermaid 'Janet'
one Lc. Blue Grotto 'Takagi'
and one Lc. Canhamiana v.coerulea 'Azure Skies'
When I opened package, I found:
three small plants of Lc. Blue Grotto 'Takagi';
three plants of Lc. Canhamiana v.coerulea 'Azure Skies';
and two Bc. Little Mermaid 'Janet'!!!
Wow! I was promised a bonus plant, but didn't expect to get that many...
They all potted into chc and we'll see who will survive to earn individual label in the log:

Lc. Love Knot 'Carmela's Blue'

Lc. Love Knot is a cross between Laelia sincorana x Cattleya walkeriana, Lc. Love Knot 'Carmela's Blue' is a coerulea type of this cross and supposed to have bluish flowers. There were about four more pseudobulbs on this plant but during re-pottng I discovered that they had rotted from the roots up and bottom part of bulbs had a bit of black color, so I cut them off leaving just those that are healthy.

Bl. Aurora

This one was bonus plant that came with my order from Clouds.
Bl. Aurora is a cross between Laelia anceps x Brassavola nodosa.



I placed it into full sun and it seems to be ok for now, just a bit of reddish color on the edge of the leaves underside. Some leaves have black tips - it came with them, I don't know the cause, hope nothing serious.

C. aurantiaca x L. angereri

The actual name on the tag is C. aurantiaca 'SVO' 4N x L. angereri 'Peter T.' and it is supposed to have bright red flowers. It is the tallest of all my cattleyas.

Psychopsis versteegiana

Medium sized seedling of Psychopsis versteegiana potted into smallest clay pot with chc. I keep it on the sunny window just behind cattleyas, so it is getting quite bright light.

Orchids arrived

Bunch of phals from Kingfisher orchids complete my b-day purchases. I ordered six of them, but got seven - one was a bonus!
Here is a group picture:


Barerooted at the front is Phal fasciata 'Shaffers', it has healthy nice roots and four spikes!
In the second row from left to right are:
Phal. Kuntrarti Rarashati ‘Copperstate’ with something like tiny spike.
Phal. bellina (‘Ingrid Ohh’ X ‘Joy’)
Phal. equestris ‘Blue’ BM/TOGA X self with basal keiki
and Phal. amboinensis
Large ones at the back are
Phal. equestris var. alba with strange round hole on the leaf(hope it is nothing serious) and bonus plant with long name - Dtps. Freed's Beautiful Girl 'Blue' X Phal Equestris 'Alba' (I copied the label) and with very pretty flowers.
I am happy with the plants and vendor.
And the blooming phal alone:

I will re-pot and post each of them separately a bit later.

Phalaenopsis cornucervi

This cute plant with bunch of healthy roots arrived together with Vanda denisoniana below. I am pretty sure on the advertisement picture it had dark solid flower not yellow with dark pattern, but at the time of packing or transition flower dried up and got lost. Now I need to wait for a new bloom to confirm it. So here it is - Phalaenopsis cornucervi with two spikes.

I know by now that Phal cornucervi continues to bloom on the same spikes, I should not cut them off. Also I really hope that these spikes would stay not yellowing as it happened to my Phal bellina. For now it looks like a little swan in the lake of sphagnum :).

Vanda denisoniana

New Vanda denisoniana is another b-day purchase from ebay. It has old dried out spike - means it is a blooming sized plant. One stubborn root wouldn't fit into vase, so I left it out causing somewhat asymmetrical look.

Cloud's orchids order

This is the batch from b-day purchases.
Bunch of phalaenopsis and vanda seedlings, again, probably years before blooming:
phalaenopsis modesta, sumatrana and kunstleri
vanda suavis and liouvillei
On the back there is cattleya forbesii which I didn't order but it was a free gift with purchase.
Also on the back is a bag with sphagnum moss to repot my phals.

Vanda pumila

This will be probably the cutest vanda display I ever had. Little wooden log with several small vandas mounted. The tag shows name vanda flavobrunnea, but I think most commonly used name of this plant is vanda pumila, so I am logging it under Vanda pumila name here.
It lives hanged on eastern window where it gets bright light with not much of direct sun.

Vanda flabellata

It actually came marked as Aerides flabellata, but after some research it appears that in 1985 it became Vanda flabellata. Roots are awkwardly wide too but I was able to squeeze it into a glass vase. The foliage is not perfect either, but since this species is kind of hard to find - I will live with it: