Deflasked seedlings update

It has been over a month since I logged in the status of my seedlings.
They are still alive, there were no deaths since last update. Lots of them are working on a new leaf and all grew some new roots.

Phal. Bedford Nonpareil:





Phal. Hawaii Dragon Girl:





I also noticed this little plant - it looks like it has a keiki growing on the side:



Would be awesome if it survived.

Laelia tenebrosa II

Laelia tenebrosa is the last one from the cattleya batch that I got from Clouds. I know, it can grow pretty large and I already have small tiny seedlings of this species, but it was pretty hard to pass an opportunity to get larger sized plant(it was listed as large seedling) that might flower sooner so I would be able to enjoy blooms in this life.
Since I usually try to buy mostly smallish species, I think I will be able to squeeze this large laelia in between vandas on my sunny window.



There are four pseudobulbs, bunch of nice roots, leaves are freshly green. I moved plant from plastic pot with bark mix to my preferred clay pot with chc.

Phalaenopsis bellina III

Yes, yet one more Phal. bellina. I got it in the summer with an old spike and ugly yellowing bottom leaf.
Was hoping that spike will activate and produce a bloom for me, but no.
All it did since arrival - shedded ugly yellow leaf (with my help).
No new roots, not any sign of growing, nothing.



Well, I guess it is still adjusting. Hopefully there will be some activity soon.
I now have 4 bellinas.

Cattleya kerrii

Cattleya kerrii is another one from Clouds orchids.
Supposedly the large seedling it has a sheath already. Apparently sometimes very young plants can produce sheath, but often they don't result in blooms. My case is probably an example of it.



It is a small sized cattleya too (I have to remember my space limitations), also from Brazil. Interesting that its population in the wild is very limited and according to this post C.kerrii is considered an endangered species.
Name kerrii was given in honour of english botanist Kerr who lived in the beginning of 20st century.

I like the look of the blooms, it is quite different from usual cattleya flowers.

Bulbophyllum ambrosia update

About a month ago I got my first and only bulbophyllum - Bulb. ambrosia. I potted it into smallest clay pot with sphagnum and since the pot was too narrow and pseudobulbs grew too wide - the newest pseudobulb was sort of hanging in the air at the edge of the pot.
I had no idea how it grows and where the new growth would appear.
Now this new pseudobulb activated, produced couple roots and it seems like there is also some swelling on the actual bulb:



I totally freaked out that these new roots are exposed to my dry indoor air and new growth would have nowhere to grow.
After some head-scratching and looking through all the pots I had at my disposal I came up with this:



Plastic vanda basket is shallow, breathable and wide enough to fit existing pseudobulbs with some space for the new ones, and roots can now grow right into moss.
Hope this works out.