More keiki?!

Phalaenopsis pulchra is growing something simultaneously from the two nodes on the same spike:



I am pretty sure both are the keiki. Am I right?

Vanda denisoniana x Trudelia pumila

Primary cross between vanda denisoniana and trudelia pumila should be on a smaller side. I am not sure if it will take denisoniana fragrance.



It is a blooming sized plant, but I might not see flowers for a while since the roots are very sparse. Hopefully plant will grow more roots.

Old seedlings

In the summer 2011 I have purchased 8 seedlings of phalaenopsis species. They were unfortunate enough to be mailed right at the end of postal strike and got overheated a bit.
Anyway, half of them didn't make it, the other four are still alive: two of them are actually growing nicely. Now, since there is still some room in the heated humidity trays, they can take advantage of warm humid conditions, maybe it will boost their growth a bit.

I have repotted both into fresh sphagnum moss, roots look fine.

Phalaenopsis violacea var mentawai:



Potted up:



Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana:



Potted up:



Other two - tetraspis and pantherina are next.

Repotted javanicas

Got these two plants of Phalaenopsis javanica last spring from Ten Shin Gardens. They were supposed to be blooming sized but never bloomed yet.
I decided to put them both into heated propagation trays together with phalaenopsis seedlings to take advantage of hot and humid conditions of that "phal-paradise".
Both were repotted into fresh moss and clean pots to make sure that nothing funny gets into those trays.

Unpotted javanicas showed some new root growth:



Now potted into new pots with fresh sphagnum moss ready to go into humidity trays for their "orchid vacation":



Here I digged out an old picture of them on arrival, apparently they grew two new leaves each:



Does anybody have Phalaenopsis javanica? How do you convince it to bloom?

Seedlings

I was bored last weekend and decided to move my phalaenopsis seedlings around, again.
There were actually several reasons to do it. With pots being on the heat mat I noticed that they dry out too fast, so I wanted to increase the layer of sphagnum moss in the pots, get rid of net pots and was really curious about their roots conditions.

The roots were fine and growing on the most of the seedlings. I didn't loose any of them yet. Since they were out of pots - I did sort them by size, again, created several compots to use valuable space on the heat mats more efficiently but still left some of the larger ones single. Here is what came out of it.

Phalaenopsis Bedford Nonpareil:



It is amazing how much difference in size is between the largest and the smallest seedlings from this flask.
Since heat mats make the tray bottom pretty warm I decided to raise pots above and placed each of them on the plastic net pot or vanda basket. Then I could leave a small layer of water right there in the trays, so humidity jumped to 85% with temps around 28 C - almost Borneo conditions.

Phalaenopsis Hawaii Dragon Girl:



Dragon girls are more consistent in size.
The only problem I have now - a lot of condensation on the clear plastic domes that cover those trays. I have to wipe them a lot.

Since rearranging seedlings free-ed(is that a word?) some space in the heated trays - I will put some of my other seedlings in there. Phal. gigantea will be first to get in.