Happy roots

I was watering paphs yesterday and noticed these two happy roots chasing each other in the bark. I couldn't help it and snapped the picture:



Guess, who they belong to?...

Paphiopedilum Delrosi 'Murray'. Despite last years repeated mites attack, it is still alive and growing. I think it enjoys being in the orchid tank:



I repotted it recently changing medium from chc in clay pot to bark mix in plastic. It seems to like new mix...

Phalaenopsis Vio Vio

After blooming for pretty long time Phal. Vio Vio shedded its spike and took a break.
Now it looks like the break is over - it started to grow a new leaf:



New roots are coming along too (I find it very funny when they start coming out of pot):



Vio Vio is one of my favorite hybrids, I hope it will grow new spike for me soon.

V. coerulea x C. vietnamica

I was watering my recently acquired cross of Vanda coerulea and Christensonia vietnamica and noticed two little nubbings of new roots.

One is smaller:



The other one is a bit bigger:



When I have a plant with almost no roots, seeing such new growths makes me as happy as seeing the blooms.

Psychopsis versteegiana update

My small psycho seedling grew a nice and cute pseudobulb with clean perfect leaf:



Old leaves got some black patches that don't spread but do look quite ugly, so this new clean leaf is a good sign. I do make sure to keep it away from the sun because leaves get scorched by it a lot.

New bulb also got some nice roots:



I wonder how far from blooming this guy stands.

PS. Picture of the ugly black patches on the older leaves to follow up the conversation in the comments area. What is it?

Recovering angraecum

This summmer I decided to put Angraecum sesquipedale outside so it could take some temp differences and maybe initiate blooms.
That was a bad decision because I totally forgot about it and didn't water for couple weeks in hot and dry weather.
After discovering dehydrated angraecum, I took it back inside. Roots were all dry. I repotted it adding some chc to the bark mix.

It was standing there doing noting for couple months, I was wondering if it is going to die or recover, but now I can see a new root above the media.
I think it decided to recover:

Cattleya schilleriana adjusting

I got Cattleya schilleriana at the end of September potted into plastic pot with sphagnum, so I really needed to repot it. But since they are known to be quite sensitive to repotting during the wrong time of the year (fall is wrong, spring is right) - I was somewhat worried about its adjustment.
Apparently worried for nothing. Newest pseudobulb started to grow several roots at once.



Another observation - the newest leaves are getting more reddish purple in color then when it just arrived. I am not sure if it is supposed to be or plant gets too much sun and I should move it to a shadier spot.



Plant descriptions on the web mention that leaves undersides are purple, but in my case it is the surface too. I don't know...

Bulbophyllum ambrosia update

About a month ago I got my first and only bulbophyllum - Bulb. ambrosia. I potted it into smallest clay pot with sphagnum and since the pot was too narrow and pseudobulbs grew too wide - the newest pseudobulb was sort of hanging in the air at the edge of the pot.
I had no idea how it grows and where the new growth would appear.
Now this new pseudobulb activated, produced couple roots and it seems like there is also some swelling on the actual bulb:



I totally freaked out that these new roots are exposed to my dry indoor air and new growth would have nowhere to grow.
After some head-scratching and looking through all the pots I had at my disposal I came up with this:



Plastic vanda basket is shallow, breathable and wide enough to fit existing pseudobulbs with some space for the new ones, and roots can now grow right into moss.
Hope this works out.

Phalaenopsis I-Hsin George events

After blooming George was busy growing enormous quantitiy of roots along the stem (interestingly on one side only). I have no idea what is he going to do with all of them, but I guess they are needed for something:



Roots look like invasion of giant worms or little snakes, I mist them from time to time so they don't die from thirst:



Today however I noticed something else coming above one of the roots and I think it is a new spike:



Does that mean that I-Hsin George doesn't care about old spikes anymore? I don't know, but I do like all this activity. He also grows third new leaf at the same time:



Also he leans a lot on one side, so I probably need to find some way to support the stem, but nothing comes to my mind. Wire might damage the leaves, what else can be used?

Paphiopedilum delenatii update

Old fan on Paph delenatii got so unattractively brownish-yellow, that I decided to cut it off. The cut is quite visible in front of the newer fan that is producing new leaf:



While fussing around it, my curious mind wanted to see what is going on in the pot under the chc surface. Without much thinking I pulled the plant out of the pot and was thrilled to discover two gorgeous new fuzzy roots growing out of the rotted/dried roots mess I saw last time.
Giant piece of chc stuck to them, I didn't want to disturb the roots and didn't take it off for the pictures:



View from the side:



Looks like couple of my paphs decided to give me a second chance :).

After some reading and going through the google images, it turned out that I really like the paphs of parvisepalum type (which explains why beside delenatii I have also micranthum and emersonii). There are few other parvisepalum species and primary hybrids I would like to add to my collection soon.