Recent content by richgarrison

any of your Hilo Bald Eagles look like this? - not sure if that dorsal will flatten out on future bloomings... maybe its time to dump while in flower.. ;-)

Thanx for that…. Feel free to post comparative photos here if the spirit moves…. I forget if there are a flasks’ worth of these hiding or if I just bought a few seedlings…. Maybe I’ll extend this post as sibs show up…. The leaf habit on this one is way more grasslike than MDC. And...

Not at all. Sits with the rest of the Aerangis and phals Think this was from a Louisiana orchid connection Madagascar order

I took the picture. So figured I’d post it. :)

(Memoria Dick Clements x klotzschianum) from Bill Goldner (#5531) Wish the dorsal was a bit more upright. But keeping this one til the plant shows some heft. Nice color though.

Like that dark color and stance…. Reads like Sam cross.. Would you mind posting the cross #? Or source

Had to double check. But hengduan biotech has canhii in their current preorder and ship listing.

but look at all the room you're wasting with that mexipedum!!!!!

guessing there is a bract and a bud hiding behind there? ha had to zoom in

The last photo shows what I would diagnose as erwinia on the older lower leaf. If that is infection, any of the affected surface can easily transit the infection to other parts of the plant as well as to other plants. Look for articles from sue bottom, at STAUG for diagnosis and treatment. If...

hey Darlene never mind on my post above just realized that email searching isn't much more lazy than just asking you looks like CA766 Fall River x kovachii 'Peruvian Love' from march of 2020... does that match yours?

Banrot is my goto.... includes both thiomyl and etridiazole... drench and spray...

ha welcome to the club... you may find the following resources useful.. https://staugorchidsociety.org/culturepests-diseases.htm - scroll down to the section on "Anthracnose - Colletotrichum and Glomerella" also https://www.hark-orchideen.de/orchideen-krankheiten/ you can select the 'EN'...

funny thing is for me, i've started grabbing the rhizome with a wire and pulling that back into the pot (doesn't work for everything... but the longer the rhizome the easier) and using a tray or pot scheme that supports it... in plastic pots. i end up using galvanized wire to poke through...

ahhhhh that's truly nice!.... :)