Saturday, August 6, 2011

Repotting paphiopedilums

Having several paph species, and looking for some info on care, medium etc., I came across a video tutorial on re-potting paphs and phrags. It looks useful and seems to make sense. Although my paphs were just recently potted into coconut husk chips, I will keep the video here for future reference, since, I am sure, they are not my last paphs...

Friday, August 5, 2011

Angraecum sesquipedale

I got this angraecum from orchid show in April. It came with mealybugs which took a while to be noticed. Plant was brutally wiped with alcohol at the base of each leaf, I had to use thin wooden skewers to get the pests out from tightly growing leaves. That involved some physical damage to new growth too. Nevertheless since then angraecum has grown new leaf and couple fat green roots. I check it regularly in fear of another mealies attack, but so far so good (knock on the wood).
Curious if it is a blooming size and when should I expect the blooms. I know it flowers at christmas time, but would it be this or next christmas?

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Phal noid blooms

There are only four buds. First one just opened. Nothing special, just regular noid phalaenopsis.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Phalaenopsis violacea

Phalaenopsis violacea came with dried flower on old spike but spike was yellow, not green and fresh, so I decided to cut it off. Now I don't know if it ever will give another spike:

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

First homegrown vanda spike

About a month ago I moved my Vanda Roberts Delight 'Garnet Beauty' to the large window where it gets full sun from the morning until 2:00 pm and here is the reward. At first I wasn't sure, it could be just another fat root, but now it definitely looks like a spike: