Mites attack

Nowdays I am busy fighting mites on my paphs. Good thing they are on totally different level, isolated from my other orchids.
I never saw the actual bugs but here are the symptoms.
Rusty orange traces on the leaves:



And underside:



Indented damages on the leaves:



All the above pictures are of one plant - Paphiopedilum emersonii II, it took the most damage.
I am annoyed at the bugs for ruining my paphs and mad at myself for not paying attention - I probably could check on them more often and notice those pests traces before it's gone so far.

I have used the Safer's Endall insecticide on Monday, then yesterday. Then I freaked out that insecticide could collect in the media and damage the roots. So I unpotted each of them, washed thoroughly plant and pot and potted into fresh chc.

I think I am going to repeat Endall next weekend, meanwhile - will use cotton swab with alcohol to wipe the plants every third day.

I don't know what else can I do.

Blooming continues

I am amused by the phals that span their blooming time for several months producing sequential buds on the same spikes.
Here is Phalaenopsis Vio Vio. I checked my log - it opened first bloom back in June. Since then - it always has a flower on. When one wilts - new bud is just ready to open. It is on fourth bloom now and fifth bud is growing:




I also like how heavy textured the flower is and of course the fragrance.



Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi 'red' stays in bloom since beginning of May. At first it had one flower on each spike at the time. Now it is producing clusters of blooms. I wonder if it is something that all cornu-cervis do, or I just got lucky with this particular plant:



It is also somewhow hard to photograph as a whole plant. Picture always comes out either blurry or wrongly focused or with too much shine.



Equalacea coerulea actually just started blooming recently, it now has two blooms opened and third bud growing. I like how crisp and delicate the flowers are:



The whole plant is extremely cute:

Paphiopedilum Fanaticum

I bought this Paph back in spring but forgot to log it in.
It is still alive and growing, althiugh lost couple of bottom leaves and looks kind of short.



Together with Paph. Fanaticum I also bought Paph. Magic Lanthern. I didnt forget to log that one in, but today I removed it from the list. The brown patch at the bottom was rot that was spreading to each next leaf until none was left.

Phalaenopsis violacea 'red'

Here are the small seedling and the tiny seedling of Phal. violacea 'red'.



The little one dropped out of the moss where the main seedling was wrapped. I assumed - it is the same type.
Maybe not. If it survives, in many years, I might find out.
I bought the seedling against my rule of only mature plants again because you don't see that many of violacea 'red' mature plants for sale here and I have this idea of collecting all types of violacea and bellina.
So, it was a legitimate purchase in some way.

C. aurantiaca x L. angereri

C. aurantiaca x L. angereri is growing a new pseudobulb.



Normally with all other my catts it wouldn't be a big deal - most of them grew more than one p-bulb since spring.
However it is a very big deal for C. aurantiaca x L. angereri because since its appearance here last fall it didn't grow a thing until now.
I mean there were new roots of course but all catts grow new roots like crazy, I wanted a new growth that potentially could flower some time in the future.
Stubborn plant was just sitting there doing nothing and I was questioning the usefullness of this purchase.
So, I was really happy to discover this little nub growing into new bulb.