Phalaenopsis bellina 'Chen'

Yet one more bellina joined my collection a while ago. Phalaenopsis bellina 'Chen':



I got it from Kingfisher Orchids in the beginning of summer. The plant is quite small but has healthy roots, hopefully it will establish well. I potted it into bark in plastic cup with holes at the bottom and sides. I made lots of such "pots" when moving my phals from moss to bark.

Phal. Ho's Lovely Amethyst bloomed

Phal. Ho's Lovely Amethyst came with two buds, but they promptly dropped as soon as I brought it home.
Very soon plant started to grow new bud and here it is open now:



Flower is thick and waxy with velvety texture and has strong pleasant fragrance.



Plant has lovely foliage with red tinge around the edge of the leaves:



If anybody interested in parentage and descendants of this cross, you can find it here:
http://phalaenopsis.orchideya.ca/Plants/H/Ho-s-Lovely-Amethyst-id%3d4e11e934-e2c2-43ea-8997-558b95e7ef68

Phal. 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) II

This plant was a rescue from the beginning. It came last summer together with its sibling. While sibling had two spikes and was extremely healthy, this little guy had rotten mess instead of roots.
I didn't even bother to log it here.
Surprisingly plant didn't die, grew couple of roots and one new leaf(much smaller than all the previous because of the root problems:



Yesterday when watering I noticed few small root starts along the stem. On the closer inspection, one of them looks like a spike to me (the one on the far right that grows up):



I might be wrong, it could be just a root that decided to grow up, but still it is enough to get this plant logged here ...

Phalaenopsis Penang Girl

I am very good at breaking the top on any phalaenopsis plant: mature or seedling, fully grown leaf or just tiny curled start. This one was the most annoying: I broke the top with new leaf start on the very first day after receiving seedling of Phal. Penang Girl back in summer.

The fact that this hybrid was on my wish list adds to all the grief that I went through. The same fact and also nice healthy roots made me keep the plant even though usually I don't bother.

After some while I noticed that broken leaf started to come out some more and now - there is a new growth:



There is also new root showing on the other side:



It looks like my Penang Girl might survive, so I decided to log it in.

Phal. Samera II

This phalaenopsis plant came labeled Phal. bellina x Phal. violacea. I am going to log it under proper name - Samera and this would be the second one for me.




Great thing - this one is a blooming sized one.

Phalaenopsis amboinensis var. common

Phal. amboinensis var. common came from Kingfisher Orchids almost a year ago in the fall. Somehow I managed to rot all the roots on it almost instantly. I peeled all the mushy stuff from the root strings and potted it up into sphag with just inner strings.
I was pretty sure it would be gone soon.
To my surprise plant started to grow a new leaf, then another. It was hanging on with just root strings until the spring, new leaves came out smaller than the previous ones.
When spring came - it started multiple roots at once and a third leaf.
Now it looks like totally recovered, so I am entering it here.



View from the other side:



Hope future leaves will come in a normal size with all the roots.

Phalaenopsis Vio Vio

The bloom opened today:



It has very pleasant fragrance.



Phal Vio Vio = Phal Jungo Viotris x Phal violacea.

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:

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 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!

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.

Phalaenopsis corningiana

This little phal corningiana species has nice leaves, but roots are very poor.



I was surprised to see the start of the flower spike on such a small plant.



This one should be a fragrant phalaenopsis. Hopefully it will survive.

Phalaenopsis I-Hsin George flower

Phalaenopsis I-Hsin George

Phal. I-Hsin George came from Crystal Star Orchids.



Large specimen with 4 spikes and several blooms - it has overgrown the plastic pot and needed repotting.
Here is what the inside of the pot looked like:



It took some while before all the old moss was cleaned out and some rotted roots were trimmed. Then plant had a nice warm bath in the kitchen sink:



I debated with myself on the choice of the pot and medium for some time, but then, since it seems that plant liked to be in the plastic pot with moss, I decided to keep it that way too. I stuck couple packing peanuts under the base in the middle for just in case. All repotted: