Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Blooming orchid Cattleya aurantiaca 'SVO' 4N x angereri 'Peter T.'

My second attempt at orchid video creation. I think this one is better. It is best viewed with 1080p setting on full screen.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Video of my orchids

I made first attempt to create a video of my orchids. As simple as it sounds, after all orchids are still objects that don't need to be reminded to pose and smile etc., I don't think it was a successful attempt. The lighting is weird, the focus does not stay where it should.
I am posting it here anyway just to keep record and compare to the future ones(if there will be) to notice improvement(again, if there will be)...
I used camera from my cell phone LG G4 which supposed to be good, so all the faults are from my limited expirience.



Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Vanda pumila

Vanda pumila in August 2011 when I just got it:


Vanda pumila now:


Roots totally covered and consumed little log that it was mounted on so I had to put it somewhere to keep roots from going everywhere.
But this post is not about growth, it is about spike (marked with red arrow):



And it's not like it is first spike I ever discovered here. There was already one few months ago, but it is still at the same stage as I found it. I hope this one maybe go somewhere.

Here are two spikes visible, maybe first one was just waiting for second one to bloom together?


Sunday, January 17, 2016

My tanks re-arranged

Here is my grow area now:



Two reptile tanks in the corner of our unfinished basement.














Friday, January 8, 2016

Paph. Wössner Wolke seedlings

Here is one more update on my seedlings. This was the flask with most population. When deflasking they were so clumped together that I couldn't separate and count them, so I just planted them in groups.
Now, when re-potting, I separated each seedling and counted them - 57. It's like two flasks in one bottle.




Smaller runts will probably not survive, but I decided to keep all of them for now, surprisingly they had quite nice roots.