Anitum disaster

Here is another confirmation of the rule "the less you fuss with orchids - the better they grow". I was so worried about anitum flask: if it gets too much light, if there is not enough air flow, if it started to rot from the bottom as everyone suggested they would. So I kept checking and checking on them until my clumsiness played evil and dropped whole big phalaenopsis plant right on the tray with poor anitums.
Needless to say there is a lot of damage - broken top on one, lots of broken and bent leaves on others, tray jumbled up, so I had to literally repot them.
As it always happens, the biggest and best were affected the most.
Here they are after disaster:





Not sure about survival now and feel quite down: instead of giving them good start I managed to make sure they get a huge setback. If I could I would go and get another flask to do everything right from the start, but unfortunately have no such luxury, only maybe next year. Darn it...

Phrag. caudatum: unexpected event

I got Phrag. caudatum 'Fortuna' from Ecuagenera last year, it was quite small plant and I thought it was few years from blooming.
To my surprise:



This is actually the only phrag that does good for me. All the besseae and kovachii hybrids are still sulking and I am thinking about getting rid of them while they are still alive.
Now, of course this sheath can be totally jinxed by my post and dry out, but until then I think I can see a small bud inside:



Fingers crossed....

Paph. superbiens deflasked

Paph superbiens x sib is the second flask that I got from Ching Hua. I really like the leaves on barbarta types and since my callosum deflasklings are doing ok, I figured this one should too.

Bathing in a bowl:



Look at those amazing roots! 22 plantlets were in the jar, all pretty uniform in size, no runts:



Potted up:

More pics from the show

Cattleya guatemalensis:



Cattleyas display:



More displays:





Gigantic Rhyncostylis gigantea:

Deflasked Paph. anitum

Plantlets in anitum flask were overgrown, so I decided to deflask right away. The actual name of cross is Paph. anitum x sib ('特優' x '#100-1') and it came from Ching Hua Orchids.

Puck swimming in a bowl:



I liked how soft agar was, no problems washing it off. Plantlets separated relatively easy, but couple pairs didn't want to untangle -I left them as is. Counted 16 plants, not 20 as advertised:



Brown leaves at the bottom didn't look healthy so I peeled them off. Leaves are long and tangled, hope they will straighten up. Potted:



I created natural shade from large phalaenopsis in the corner of small tank. Anitum lives there now: