My Lady Isabelle is in bloom! 😍
First blooms ever! Now, if only my Roth would bloom simultaneously!
Does the yellow stem mean this one is a female with spores…?
Hi! I found someone who has one. We agreed I would hold off on purchasing to see how my orchids fare over a cold, dry Midwest winter.
My current collection is actually doing amazingly well so far! I have new growth on my catasetums and on several paphs and on my 3 phrags!
Thank you for the info. I’ve apparently always heard the word “keiki” used incorrectly to mean a spike. Now I understand the difference. Appreciate the replies,
Hi all - hoping to pick the collective brains and expertise here. I have this phalaenopsis that I got from my local nursery. It isn’t a special species that I am aware of…when the blooms faded I left the spike because it had several nodes that appeared healthy and likely to re-spike. Sure...
Hey! I thought I’d kick this out to the “tribe” for opinions and input.
I was doing my usual watering today and checked soak water with my BlueLab pH/Conductivity combo meter. For what it is, I’d call that a high quality meter! My unfiltered, untreated tap water measures alkaline and relatively...
I’m sure this isn’t an award worthy bloom. But it’s pretty to me and makes me smile! Hopefully it does the same for folks here :)
Forgive the white flecks on the leaves and bloom. It’s a treatment cocktail I use for pests and bacterial and fungus.
Just chiming in with another nod for Orthene. I just knocked a mealybug infestation out and several of my paphs were in bloom. No negative effect on the plant or bloom or bud.
On the worst plants, I followed up with this on the top of the medium (image below). 1/2 tsp sprinkled around was...
Not sure if non-orchids are allowed! I saw someone posted a pretty wandering Jew on here. So, maybe I’ll be forgiven if this isn’t allowed.
But, I do absolutely love my ant plant! It was a bonus from an order from Orchid Web! Hydnophytum formicarum. It was very hard to NOT buy their recently...
I know it’s a long shot! I want to find a Paph Winston Churchill!
I know OrchidWeb/Orchids Limited will have a bulldog type cross in the spring. I was hoping to find a true W. C.
I have a rescue doggo that I named Winston Churchill and thought it would be fun to have a paph of the same name...