And now in full bloom

Micranthum pouch grew much bigger and now looks weirdly inflated. I like it.




Side view:



Armeniacum unwrapped its petals some more:



Side view:



And shot of my happy parvi couple together:



Wondering if micranthums pouch is still growing...

Two paphiopedilums are almost blooming

Well, the flowers are not opened completely yet, but of course I could not wait.
They are Paph. micranthum II and Paph. armeniacum II.
My first surprise was - how much the armeniacums flower is larger than micranthums. I never actually see them pictured together and for some reason assumed that micranthum bloom should be larger. It appears not:



Another surprise - how fast the micranthum bud developed comparing to armeniacum. I mean the time from discovering the bud and todays status.
Here is the micranthum as of today:



I am sure that petals will unwrap much more, but not sure if pouch will grow any larger. I like how delicately intricate the middle part is on micranthum, armeniacums is much simpler and bulkier(todays picture too):



To see the real shape of the blooms I would have to wait until the flowers will open completely, probably next weekend. So this was just a preview.

Developing pouches

I can definitely see a nice and full pouch on Paphiopedilum armeniacum II now:



It looks like it is wrapped into petals around. Wondering how long before they will unfold. The color is nice and bright yellow already...

Paphiopedilum micranthum bud started to show some pink color and veining and pouch is rounding too:



This one has shorter spike and bud is nodding down more. Would be nice to have them both in bloom together.

Paph micranthum II

The bud on paphiopedilum micranthum grows amazingly fast:



The flower stem looks very different from smooth and velvety stem of paph armeniacum.





Clouds orchids put out their new catalogue and it includes quite a few parvisepalum hybrids. Of course eventually I would like to get them all, but for now thinking: Fumi's Delight, Lola Bird and Dick Wagner.

Micranthums

I didn't post these micranthums because they looked like growing spikes, so I was afraid to jinx it. Well, one of them blasted anyway, so there is no point to be supersticious anymore.
Good thing - one bud is still alive, although it seems like I am very good at blasting them, so be as it will be.
Paphiopedilum micranthum II:



Its spike close up:



Paphiopedilum micranthum III - blasted, dried and browned. Hope the plant will survive and produce new fans soon: