Show your orchids!

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Bit of a <"sad update on this one">. I've lost my Pleione. The leaves died off a bit earlier than I was expecting in 2022, but I didn't think anything off it. I don't water them through the winter, so it was only about a month ago that I went to repot them and found their weren't any pseudobulbs or any trace of them. I've still got the Azalea.



cheers Darrel

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I don't know what variety it is, it was a remaindered bulb, bought after christmas in the supermarket. I've had it for ~10 years, and it has had to put up with a fair bit of neglect (and being eaten by Large Narcissus Bulb fly).

This is 2023's incarnation. It has had another run in with the <"Large Narcissus Bulb fly"> since 2019, but that has meant that it now has two flowering size bulbs.



cheers Darrel

 

[zozo]

Once every few years, the Bulbophyllum sikkimense in my little Wardian Case pops a flower... 🙂
This is the 2nd one in 5 year time...

 

[G H Nelson]

Mini Orchids
Not in the same league as the plants on here, at least I ain't killed them with kindness Yet!
Yellow Orchid 2nd year flowering...after re-potting with sphagnum moss only.
Purple Orchid I will re-pot when it stops flowering!




hoggie

 

[Myrtle]

Finally I can contribute! My Restrepia in the @arium has flowered 🙂

 

[Tyko_N]

Liparis flowering again, went from a couple of stalks last year to seven this year, it seems happy in the paludarium. The Paphiopedilum 'Maudiae Femma' has also put out a bud finally, I've had it for a few years now and tried it in various spots, but this time is the first I've got it to flower.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Another non-orchid (and a <"serial appearer"> in this thread), but our bathroom "Amazon Lily" (Eucharis "grandiflora") has decided that autumn has come early in 2021.

I'll post 2023's photo.



cheers Darrel

 

[LFNfan]

Not a patch on others' orchids but mine are starting to flower this year. Just simple phals. First flower is an event I do look forward to this time of year.

 

[foxfish]

Christmas cactus were looking good on Christmas day!

 

[LFNfan]

@foxfish Wow! Do you get them to flower every year?

 

[foxfish]

@foxfish Wow! Do you get them to flower every year?

Yes, in fact they both flower three or four times a year but always punctual for Christmas!
The closer one is probably 40 years old, the other one is only about 5-6 years old.
The older one has huge thick stems and I trim it regularly throughout the summer, the other one had yet to be trimmed.
Both live in hard cat litter, they are outside from April to October, I spray every day with rain water if it is not raining. In the winter they come inside my unheated conservatory, I still spray every day.
I feed them with liquid feed in a spray bottle throughout the summer and add a little chicken manure to the pots in April.

 

[LFNfan]

Ok, that's some regimen, obviously gets brilliant results!
My missus thinks my orchids get the special treatment having a weekly dunk in some RO water with orchid fertiliser in it!

 

[Majsa]

Just wanted to show you this little surprise. Last year my paphiopedilum callosum had a double bloom (an old picture below) and one of the spikes just didn't seem to die off. I was hoping for seeds but didn't really believe it. But today the pod burst open!

This is probably the end of it since I don't know anything about flasking!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

and one of the spikes just didn't seem to die off. I was hoping for seeds but didn't really believe it. But today the pod burst open!

It must have been pollinated.

This is probably the end of it since I don't know anything about flasking!

I'd try sowing them in the pot with the mature plant. It probably won't work, but you don't have anything to lose.

cheers Darrel

 

[Majsa]

Hi all,

It must have been pollinated.

I'd try sowing them in the pot with the mature plant. It probably won't work, but you don't have anything to lose.

cheers Darrel

Thanks for the tip, I did that. At least it makes me feel much better than just throwing them away.

 

[foxfish]

I dont think my 50 year old orchids are as spectacular as usual but still not a bad display, I did split one pot last summer and I will do the other big pot this summer.

 

[Cornelius]

I saw these 2 specimens at the local garden center

 

[hypnogogia]

They look very unnatural.

 

[The Miniaturist]

They look as though the flowers have been marbled like the endpapers of a book.
I thought the dyed ones were bad enough, why does everything have to become so 'artificial', nature doesn't need to be painted over like that!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

They look as though the flowers have been marbled like the endpapers of a book.
I thought the dyed ones were bad enough, why does everything have to become so 'artificial', nature doesn't need to be painted over like that!

I saw these 2 specimens at the local garden center

They look very unnatural.

Beyond horrible.

cheers Darrel