Show your orchids!

[zozo]

And a <"Lipstick vine"> (Aeschynanthus radicans). The Lipstick Vine is actually my "cuttings pot" from earlier in the year, but I've failed to pot them on. These are a lot easier to kill, so it is worth having a spare.

Shake my hand!... I had one very beautiful and rather large and lush for over a year... And then all of a sudden like the devil out of a box it died on me and I have no clue why. Well, I suspect it was because watering it with tap water still was too hard with Gh5 and caused salinization of the soil.

 

[mort]

I don't think they mind @zozo , we have very hard tap water here in Norfolk and our lipstick vines do really well (we haven't had any rain water to spare until this week and I'm to lazy to warm it up in the winter). I think the key is to not over water them and let them dry out in between watering. I have A. marmoratus as well and it doesn't like to be to wet either.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I think the key is to not over water them and let them dry out in between watering.

Definitely that is the key, but I think all these the plants have a <"finite life span"> and eventually the old plant will die. I've found this with all the tropical epiphytic Gesnerids. Because they root so easily from cuttings (including leaves) I'm imagining that in the wild they will naturally root into accumulations of leaf litter in branch forks etc.

These are all still clones from the same plants <"I had in 2012">, and I've owned the Columnea's since 1985. I've had a lot of other Gesnerids, but they all need warmer more humid conditions than I can manage or have fallen victim to Vine Weevils and/or laissez faire mangement.

They're some cracking Petrocosmea and <"Streptocarpus"> / <"Streptocarpella"> species for a cool glasshouse, I just don't have anywhere to put them.

cheers Darrel

 

[Tyko_N]

Liparis condylobulbon (probably, bought as an unlabeled plant about a year ago), the flowers are barely half a centimeter across, but on the other hand this stem has produced almost 50 of them so far.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
This one has <"had an outing"> in this thread before, but it is doing a better at home than it did in my room at work.




cheers Darrel

 

[dougbraz]

Whilst the more "normal" orchids are great fun (of which I have quite a few), it is also really interesting when you grow MICRO-orchids such as these which are flowering on a wine cork (the infamous "banana for scale" doesn't really work here...).
Probably hard to come by in the UK, but luckily I live in the tropics and these are not that rare at all..
Enjoy -
Doug

 

[dougbraz]

Again, living in the tropics it is easier to acquire some lesser known orchids - which makes it all the more "fun" really. This one is Aeranthes arachnites which is fairly easy to grow and an interesting light green colour.

 

[aquawoman99]

dougbraz would you sell or ship some of these?

Last time I got screwed by trying some guy off of craigslist without any background information or criminal report. Tbh, idk if it's cool or sad I trust people on here more but my town just sucks in general

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Still not an orchid, but this is 2022's incarnation of our <"dead relatives" Christmas Cacti">.



cheers Darrel

 

[foxfish]

I have got a lipstick plant that is quite old, around 12 years I think.
It lives inside in the winter and I keep it trimed back every spring before it goes in my outside party house.
Also had some early cactus flowers, almost finished now ….

 

[foxfish]

I have not re potted my Paphiopedilum as yet but they are back in flower….

 

[Ehcosbie]

I have not re potted my Paphiopedilum as yet but they are back in flower….

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Amazing, what a display!

 

[foxfish]

Full bloom with over 30 flowers

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

.... Still not an orchid, but this is 2022's incarnation of our <"dead relatives" Christmas Cact">.

The last one, had this one for the last twenty years since my wife's grandma died. It gets a prune when you open the freezer door. I've also had this one for twenty years, Haemanthus albiflos.

Cheers Darrel

 

[Ehcosbie]

Hi all,

One of my hybrid orchids is in flower. Don’t know the name of it though.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

One of my hybrid orchids is in flower. Don’t know the name of it though.

I like that one. It will be <an xCambria">, but I don't know which one.

cheers Darrel

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Hi all, I still haven't re-potted the Coelogyne. This is how it looks in 2017.

You can also see the fern (Dryopteris filix-mas on left of image) that has "seeded" itself into the pot.

cheers Darrel

This is the 2023 incarnation. It is still hovering somewhere in between life and death, after division into four bits.

This is the best section.

Cheers Darrel

 

[PARAGUAY]

Hope they pull through ,look like they will

 

[foxfish]

My lipstick just starting to flower.

 

[Tyko_N]

Not an orchid, or especially good looking, but it's the first time any of these has flowered for me; Dracaena fragrans (possibly, although it's not very fragrant).