Phal. Mituo Sun King

Cross of Mituo Sun 'Mituo #1' and LD's Bear Queen.
Crystal Star had several plants of this hybrid with blooms. I was selecting the best flower (in my opinion of course), they had different colors since they are seedling population not clones.
Here is what I ended up with:



The flower is very thick and seems heavy. It has faint fragrance, smells like opened package of the baloons.



Now for the sad part. Plants were wrapped into plastic, I was concentrated on selecting a flower and didn't even look at the foliage. At home, unwrapping the plant I discovered black rot in the middle where new leaf should come out. Of course I sent the picture of it to the vendor and she replied right away that I should bring it back for refund or exchange. The problem is - I really like the bloom, there weren't any other with such shape and color.

Black stuff seems to be dry, but I don't know how far into the middle it goes. Otherwise it is very strong plant with nice roots and there is a nubbing of the second spike coming out. I can bring it back to Ottawa show and get another plant, but in reality I would like to save this one.
I spilled some hydrogen peroxide into the middle and keep the plant out of tank for now to make sure there is no humidity around the black stuff.

Any suggestions/opinions for me?

Vanda denisoniana x Trudelia pumila

Primary cross between vanda denisoniana and trudelia pumila should be on a smaller side. I am not sure if it will take denisoniana fragrance.



It is a blooming sized plant, but I might not see flowers for a while since the roots are very sparse. Hopefully plant will grow more roots.

Phalaenopsis BaShi Blackspot alba

As the name suggests Phal. BaShi Blackspot should have spots, but the word alba in the name should make it all white.
This hybrid was registered in 2005 and produced by crossing
Brother Redland Spots and Yungho Gelb Canary.
I am not a big fan of spotted and harlequin phals, but really liked the shape of the bloom on this one. Hope this alba is really alba and will have just white blooms



Plant itself is quite substantial in leaf span and has nice roots. I potted it into clay pot with sphagnum just like all my phalaenopsis plants.

Ascocenda rescue

Here is an ascocenda hybrid that I am trying to revive:



It has all brown and dried up roots, the leaves are a bit dehydrated too. I put it into vase just so I can see what is going on with those old brown roots and hoping that maybe some of them still have the life inside and might produce new growth.

It resides in the kitchen beside the sink, so I would fill up the vase often having it there and wouldn't forget about it.

We will see if this rescue operation will succeed.

Oh yeah, the cross is - Ascda. Suksamran Sunlight x Khun Nok, it should have orange flowers.

Vanda Somthawil

Vanda Somthawil is a primary hybrid between Vanda merrillii and Vanda denisoniana.



The flowers will have fragrance, I am really looking forward to get this one to bloom.
I potted it the same way as all my adult vandas, net pots with sphagnum at the top.

Vandachostylis Sri-Siam

This cute vandaceous is an intergeneric primary hybrid (is there such thing?) between Vanda tessellata and Rhynchostylis gigantea:





The roots were so much tangled into the plastic basket that I could not easily free them up without damaging. So I decided to keep the basket and just placed it into clay pot adding the sphagnum right inside the basket. Hope it will work.

Pictures of Vandachostylis Sri-Siam that I found on the web suggest that it should have nicely waxed dark red flowers with some fragrance.

Vanda coerulea x Christensonia vietnamica

The cross between Vanda coerulea and Christensonia vietnamica is not registered anywhere. I am not even sure how the flowers would look, but hoping for something interesting.



The plant itself is very small, but mature, since there is an old dried spike, although location of this old spike is strange - usually vanda spike appears between third and fourth leaves on one side from the top of the plant. This one sits between second and third leaves, but maybe it is normal for such a cross.

The roots are very sparse, so there will be some time before it re-establishes and will be ready to bloom for me.
Due to very small size this vandaceous is a candidate for a spot in my new orchidarium (when it will get here) on the top shelf close to lights which might be too bright for phals.

Dtps. Anna-Larati Soekardi

Dtps. pulcherrima x Phal. parishii = Dtps. Anna-Larati Soekardi



Yet another phal with cute flowers to be.

Dtps. Liu's Cute Angel

Dtps. Jiaho Cherry x Phal. lobbii = Dtps. Liu's Cute Angel



I find all crosses with lobbii or parishii just adorable. Plant is small but sturdy with nice roots. Since lobbii is a mini, I don't expect it to grow very large and maybe my little plant is actually a bloom sized one.

Phalaenopsis corningiana x Coral Isles

Cross of corningiana and Coral Isles.
I expect something red and fragrant.

Phalaenopsis Crimson Cherub 'Chiayi'

Phalaenopsis Crimson Cherub 'Chiayi' is a small plant, but it is blooming size phal.
I really liked the pictures of its blooms found on the web.
Can't wait for mine to flower.

Phal. cornu-cervi 'red' x Tsay's Evergreen

I think this might produce interesting flowers - Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi red x Tsay's Evergreen.



There are two old spikes that are not active and one new spike, I hope it will bloom soon.
Plant itself reminds me of my cornu-cervi 'red' by its growth habit, has few nice roots. Yellowish patch on the right leaf - hope it is just a sun damage and nothing serious.
Can't wait to see it blooming.

Paphiopedilum Fanaticum

I bought this Paph back in spring but forgot to log it in.
It is still alive and growing, althiugh lost couple of bottom leaves and looks kind of short.



Together with Paph. Fanaticum I also bought Paph. Magic Lanthern. I didnt forget to log that one in, but today I removed it from the list. The brown patch at the bottom was rot that was spreading to each next leaf until none was left.

Phalaenopsis Tzu Chiang Crisna

Phal. Tzu Chiang Crisna is a large seedling:



Now looking at the picture here I realized that I should have cleaned the leaves from those ugly hard water spots after repotting.

There are some named clones of this hybrid, I saw pictures of at least two of them -Phal. Tzu Chiang Crisna 'Nancy' and Phal. Tzu Chiang Crisna 'Fuller'. Both are quite nice.
Mine didn't have any additional names in the label, so it probably won't look like any of those two, but should hopefully be pretty anyway.

Phalaenopsis Mancervi

This cute little bushy phal is a primary hybrid between cornu-cervi and mannii.
Plant has nice root system and an old spike.



Spike is not active now, I hope this hybrid reblooms on old spikes like cornucervi does, so I didn't cut off the spike.

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 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.

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?