Monday, October 20, 2014

New paphs from the show

I got a few new paphiopedilums at the Montreal show last weekend. They are all parvisepalum type.
Paphiopedilum emersonii, 4 seedlings from Ten Shin gardens:



Paph. micranthum var. eburneum, 4 seedlings from Ten Shin also:



And three mature plants, vietnamense, Mem. Larry Heuer and Wossner China Moon:


Sunday, October 5, 2014

Paph. hangianum seedlings update

I deflasked them in March 2014. Here I found a picture of a tray with larger seedlings from May 2014:



Since then seedlings from tray were moved to pots. I know that it would be better to let them be in that tray for as long as possible, but about a month ago I discovered a scale on one of the seedlings in the tray. I freaked out and splitted them into pairs to control the infestation better. I was checking them every day and wiping the leaves with alcohol every three days for a month. Now it seems that scale might be gone, but plants probably got a major setback with transferring into pots and stressing the leaves with alcohol.
Here they are now:



Interesting, that I have four flasks of other paphiopedilum types seedlings in the same tank but none of those were affected. It's like stupid bugs knew to attack the most expensive ones!


Sunday, September 28, 2014

Phal. I-Hsin George in full bloom

George is now blooming on all spikes:



I really have to repot it into larger pot becuse now it looks like there are more roots than potting medium in the current pot. I should do it after he is done blooming.

Orchid tank is filled with wonderful fragrance.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Paph. callosum deflasking update

Callosum seedlings are out of flask for almost 5 months now:

Tray 1



Tray 2



I didn't loose any of them yet. Yellow leaves at the bottom came from flask, I was hoping they would fall off, but they still didn't.