Phalaenopsis lobbii

Here is someone I was ready to throw away on several occasions, but every time was letting it stay:



Phal. lobbii has bad-hair day everyday. New leaves would come out damaged from the beginning and I could never figure out how to grow it. I tried to mount it, grow in a clay pot. Finally I just stuffed it into small net pot and hanged on the wall of the orchid tank.

Now it seems like the plant grows something beside the new root - a spike or a keiki:



The thing is so small that looking at it with bare eyes I thought it was just fat root split into two parts. With macro lens now I see that it is a separate growth.
I hope it is a spike.

Phalaenopsis lobbii

I took Phal lobbii off the driftwood mount. I don't think it liked it there: at first it seemed that roots were too dry, the spikes dried out too, so I covered roots with moss, but then noticed whitish-gray mold growing under plant. I freaked out, scraped the mold with alcohol and decided to just pot phal lobbii like all the other small phals.
Here it is now. There are no spikes anymore.

Mounted mini phals

Here is yet one more mounting I just created. This log of a driftwood came from the pet store too. I put several small mini-phals and one haraella baby on it. There are 4 plants in total on the mount, from left to rght they are: Phalaenopsis gibbosa seedling, Phalaenopsis parishii seedling, small seedling of Haraella retrocalla and last but not least - blooming sized Phalaenopsis lobbii with two spikes.
I put small dab of sphagnum moss under each plant. Hopefully they will be ok. I killed one Phal lobbii potted into sphagnum, this one I decided to mount.



Small Haraella retrocalla baby came off the large one when I potted it on arrival. I will label it Haraella retrocalla II.