Phal. LD's Bear Queen seedlings

I received my shipment from Kingfishers and there was a flask with LDBQ. They could stay in the flask by the size but I noticed that medium was quite dry and crumbly, and roots of the plantlets were silvery grey, not green, so I decided to deflask right away.

Here is the result:



There are 25 seedlings in total. I kept them in the warm water for a while hoping that silvery grey roots will turn green, but some of them stayed grey still. Hopefully the new roots will start growing soon...

Deflasked seedlings update

Phalaenopsis Hawaii Dragon Girl grows much faster, but they were also larger sized when I took them out of flask. Unfortunately I lost two of my "pick-of-the-litter" from this batch to some kind of rot. The edges of the leaves got watery, see-through, I freaked out and threw them away.
Here is what's left:



There are still too many for my limited space, so I am planning to leave 15 largest ones for myself (back two rows), and get rid of the 5 compots at the front. Two of them (with larger seedlings) are already spoken for. The other three might have too small seedlings, so maybe I should just throw them away. I don't know if they are worth the space, even though I can see them growing.

Phal. Bedfrod Nonpareil seedlings are much slower.



I am thinking of throwing away two compots in clay pots that were just protocorms without any roots when I deflasked and being newb - potted them too. Now I know that too small ones might as well be eliminated at the beginning.

Phal. gigantea

Something is going on with gigantea seedling. Two bottom leaves are getting yellow and will drop soon:



Usually when a bottom leaf is dying like that I don't worry because it seems like a normal process, but when there are two leaves doing it simultaneously - I am not sure anymore.
The roots are fine and bottom part of the stem looks green and healthy.



There will still be three more green leaves when the two yellow ones will drop, hope it is enough for now...

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 fasciata 'Shaffers'

Multiple old spikes on fasciata 'Shaffers' started to look yellowish and rough, so I decided to cut them off and repot the plant.
Two new spikes that I discovered last winter turned into basal keikis, so cutting off the old spikes might also help the plant to grow the keikis faster.
Unpotted it showed some new roots grown:



Potted into fresh moss:



I think it might look spectacular with three crowns when they all will be ready to bloom...