Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel

Phal Lyndon Equator Jewel dropped almost all its buds from two spikes. I don't really know why it happened, but I already had two more phals that wilted one of the buds on the spike. The conditions in the tanks seem to be perfect for them so I have no clue what went wrong there.
Anyway, Lyndon Equator Jewel managed to keep one bud and opened it yesterday:



The colors are more bright then the last blooming, but shape is somewhat different. It looks more like the second plant of this cross that I have. Also the flowers seem much smaller than the blooms on the second plant.

It still does look pretty, hopefully next blooming all the buds will survive...

Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel

Slight correction to the previous post about spikes on Phalaenopsis Lyndon Equator Jewel.
Apparently it has not two - but three new spikes at once:



Crazy little plant, it is not that strong to handle so much.
I hope it will be smart enough to stall at least one or better two of those spikes.
I would prefer it to grow more leaves and roots instead.

Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel

Here is one more nice surprise. I took out my Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel to water today and discovered not one but two new spike starts:



It finished the previous blooming by last September and shedded old spikes. Now it is growing several new roots, a new leaf and two spikes. What a performer!

My blooming phals

I took my blooming phals outside to make a group picture yesterday. Here they are - Phal. Vio Vio, Lyndon Equator Jewel, Brother Gelblienosa and bellina II.



Phalaenopsis Vio Vio already totally lost first bloom, second bloom is wilted on the picture and there actually another bud is growing under the third flower.
It is amazing how long the blooms last on the Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel.



Too bad they loose the color with age and older flowers look like there were bleached.



My favorite of all four of them is Phal. bellina II. It is fully opened now and smells incredible:

Blooms update

I was out of country for a while and that's the reason for no posts. Meanwhile my phals continued blooming and here are the results.

Phal Buena Jewel x equestris alba has many flowers now and I noticed that blooms fade with age. Pretty pink blush around the white middle almost disappears on older flowers and lip color washes away:



They are still pretty and as a bonus - I discovered slight fragrance during sunny part of the day.


Phal. Vio Vio is working on a third bud. The flowers don't fade.

Phal. Buena Jewel x equestris 'alba'

This phal was racing the spikes with Vio Vio and I was wondering which one opens first.
Well, even though Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel came in second, and opened today - it is still pretty.




Thanks to the post on the Orchid Board with picture of this cross, I expected something similar, so no disappointment here.



I think mine has a bit different shape.

Buds update and why they don't blast

I am very happy with my budding phals. Their progress is so obvious and buds still didn't drop (it usually happens to the most of my phals).
This is the Phal Vio Vio, it is now clear that there should definitely be two blooms:



Spike on the cross of Buena Jewel and equestris alba grew more and it now looks like I will have not one but three!!! flowers (if everything goes well, of course):



All of this is very unusual for me because normally the buds on my phals would grow to some degree and then wilt and drop (happened on fasciata 'Shaffers' and speciosa C1). Well, the reason of all the buds misfortunes was a low humidity. I mean it seems to be fine for noIds but fancy named ones like it more humid.
Recently I bought a flask of phal babies and was looking to buy the humidity trays for deflasking times. When I bought some - I realized that they are large enough to fit mature plants too. Needless to say, I went and bought some more and now my phals seem happy. The trays have see-through domes with ventilation holes that can be opened and closed. With opened holes they keep steady 80% humidity.

Here is how they look:



And with dome on:



Now our house is overfloated with those little orchid houses and I need to water them not as often as before.

Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel update

Just wanted to log the progress of a spike branch on this phal.



It grows really fast and already shows little baby buds:



Doesn't mean much because they can still blast.
The end of the old spike doesn't look alive and seems to have a browning point. I don't know if I should cut it off or just let it be.

Phal. Buena Jewel x equestris alba

Phalaenopsis Buena Jewel x equestris alba can have absolutely unexpected blooms, at least according to this thread on Orchid board.



My plant arrived with an old spike that had browning end. Since there was not much roots too, I thought, I should cut the spike off, so plant could concentrate on getting stronger.
After all I forgot to cut it, but after couple of weeks I noticed that one of the nodes on that old spike activated and now there is this:



I think it could be either a new branch on the spike or just a flower.
I am very curious what my flower would look like. This is a relatively new hybrid, it was actually registered in 2009 and has a name - Lyndon Equator Jewel. Although I didn't find much references to this name on the web, I will log it under Phal. Lyndon Equator Jewel, because, well, it is the plants real name.