Phal. speciosa C1 bloom

My Phal speciosa C1 bloomed and now it has one red petal (last time blooms were all white for some reason):



I like the shape and size of the blooms on this phal. There are three more buds on different spikes, hopefully they won't blast.

Paph. Wössner Wolke flask

Another flask from Hung Sheng orchids that I got through Crystal Star - HS 8481 emersonii x hangianum 'Bear-7'. This flask was so overcrowded with seedlings that I couldn't even count them all. Although they seem too small and skinny, they do have some roots, so hopefully all survive.

Most of them are grown into several seedlings clumps that I decided to leave untouched, so to not break the roots.
Out of flask - big mess of seedlings, I think there is at least 50 of them, but cannot say exact number:



Potted up:

Paph. gigantifolium deflasked.

Finally I received the last batch of flasks for this spring. Now there will be a series of posts with pictures of them deflasked with measuring tape, so I could track their growth.
First is HS 9050 - Paph. gigantifolium 'Cheng' x self from Hung Sheng Orchids nursery in Taiwan.
HS flasks always come in glass bottles that need to be cracked and I actually mastered this process by now: wrap bottle into plastic bag, take hammer hold the top of the bottle and hit exactly on the side of the bottom. Round bottom comes off almost clean and puck with orchids sits on it nicely.
Agar was soft and plants separated easy, there was 21 plntlet in the flask:



Potted up:



Next update in 6 months...

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....