Phal. violacea var. sumatra

Phalaenopsis violacea var. sumatra arrived last summer totally dehydrated almost with no roots but with a small leaf start. After spending full time in the humidity trays it started some roots, grew another leaf, but bottom leaves stayed wrinkled.
Now in the orchid tank I noticed that bottom leaves don't look that bad anymore.
It is the time to graduate the plant from small clay pot to 3-inch plastic net pot (I just got a batch of 25 pots from ebay and will be gradually replacing 3-inch clay ones with them).
Roots look fine:



All repotted and ready to go back in the tank:

Phal. equestris orange

Equestris orange lives in the tank number two.
It is one of the few that had issues with high T5 HO light and displayed burgundy coloration on the leaves:



Meanwhile roots were growing like crazy and I thought about repotting it because one root started to stick out of the bottom drainage hole.



But then I discovered a spike start and decided to wait with repotting.



I figured that I have several equestris hybrids, two types of equestris species - blue and orange but still don't have the regular form. That's wrong, I have to get one...

Neofinetia falcata `Shojo`

I finally found time to repot my one and only neofinetia.
The roots were ok:



I chose slightly larger pot but put small plastic net pot turned upside down under the base of the plant:



Neofinetia now lives in my orchid tank and gets high light. I am still hoping for blooms but doesn't look like I am going to get them this year. Maybe it needs to mature both new growths before flowering, I don't know.

Paph. St. Swithin update

This is just to document development of the bud on St.Swithin - about a week after the last post.



The fact that it came out a bit more from the leaves makes me think that it is growing even in my low humidity and brown stripe going through the top of the bud is probably there by design.

Lueddemanniana: more blooms

Couple more buds opened on Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana.



I really like this plant, the fragrance is incredible too.



I think lueddemanniana is becoming one of my favorite species.



Here it is with other phal - hybrid with really long name. Both have very nice fragrance: