Bl. Morning Glory

I posted about Bl. Morning Glory exactly one year ago - in November 2011, when it just arrived from Clouds as a seedling.

Since then it grew many new pseudobulbs and roots.
Somewhere down the road I moved it to a larger pot.
Here it is now:



Recently I noticed that some bulbs started to grow something papery-white from inside the leaf:



I am guessing that's where the flowers might eventually come out from.
Am I right?

Vanda bensonii

Here is what used to be a rootless cutting and now the roots are bursting out of the pot:



The coconut husk seems to have a nice effect on growing roots, at least I noticed it with cattleyas and vandas:



Vanda bensonii is now concentrating on growing some new leaves too. I am not sure how long it would be before it blooms, but am happy that it became a plant from a cutting and keeps growing.

Dying Phal. Lea Marie Salazar

There is not much to say, the pictures will tell it all:







One of those black spots from the last picture appeared on the newest leaf on the crease when it was still unfolded, small and growing. The leaf broke and started to blacken by the edge. I cut black stuff off but the edge became black again. I was cutting that leaf until there was nothing left to cut and the black stuff went inside.

I have no idea what those black patches are. I rubbed them with alcohol, sprinkled with cinnamon with no effect. They don't seem to get larger rapidly, if leaf didn't break, plant would probably still be ok, although with damaged leaves.

Now it is somewhat isolated and I am not throwing it away because of all the money I spent on it - there is a spike, maybe it will grow a keiki.

Dendrobium cochliodes

Three seedlings of Dendrobium cochliodes:



Each of them is now showing the signs of new growth:



It is strange because I am not very good with dendrobiums and even worse with dendrobium seedlings.



They grow pretty large so my babies have long way before blooming.

Phalaenopsis venosa

I got this plant for a while, it arrived here during summer, I just forgot to log it in.
There is not much I can say about Phalaenopsis venosa, never saw one blooming in person, but read somewhere that flowers smell like crushed centipede. Since then I decided to smell crushed centipede but never had a chance yet.



My plant used to be a keiki because I found the remainings of an old spike that it was connected to the mother plant with. There wasn't much roots but maybe it improved lately, plant has started a new leaf recently.
Hopefully I will have a chance to smell the flower before I will find the crushed centipede.