Recent content by JawDroppingSlippers

Hi! I’ve dabbled in drying my orchids too after I started collecting paphs about 3 years ago. I usually purchase in-spike or blooming sized plants and catalogued the flowers through photos and dried specimens, just in case the plant never bloomed again in my indoor environment. Fortunately since...

I’m ten months into my paph hobby and membership in this forum and I can truly say it’s been rewarding. I’m in awe of the results from plants purchased in-spike, but also tested my luck by purchasing blooming sized Henryanum and Fairrieanum plants and now they’re in bloom or in spike! Though not...

Paph miniature purchased from OrchidWeb in May, now in bloom! For size comparison, I placed it by my third-time blooming moquettianum.

I purchased this Paph. moquetianum x sib ('New Dimension' x 'Red Pouch') from Orchid Inn in March. Blasted the first flower, likely when I moved it from its comfortable enclosed environment, to a hotter drier open area for its first photo 🤦🏻‍♀️. Learned my lesson and was more careful this...

Thanks! The longest leaf is 8inches. The plant width is 12inches. If I had staked it vertically, the overall height would have been 24inches tall.

Thank you for the compliments. It‘s a Paph. philippinense x sib ('Super Twister' x 'Alford' AM/AOS). I read somewhere in this forum that higher humidity helps with twisting so I had this very close to a reptile fogger while in spike, about 8-12 inches away. The last bloom is starting to open up...

Paphiopedilum Tomiko Moon (Moon Stone x Tomatillo) plant about a week after the last treatment. The lip seems deformed probably due to the stress it’s been through. Also the area it was isolated was a bit drier. 3 1/2 inch flower. Thank you for all the advice and suggestions.

After purchasing the Paph philippinense from Orchid Inn in February, it quickly grew a spike and by April the first of four flowers started to open up. Over the past month as the flowers matured, the petals started to twist 😊. The first three flowers opened nicely, but as the tip got heavier I...

Done. Thank you Ray!

It’s been 3 months now since I started my small paph collection and I found my first mealy bug behind a bud on a Tomiko Moon that was three weeks ago. I used 70% alcohol on a swab to take it out (photo was taken a day after removal) and swabbed a few more areas that appeared to have fuzz. Two...

Glass bowls- Instead of pebble trays, my mottled leaf paphs are in 12 inch bowls that I got at a craft store. Other than regular indoor air movement, there’s a HEPA unit a few feet away that helps fans the air. After I found a mealy bug in a fairly newly purchased Tomiko Moon, I was hoping the...

LOL. When placed on the edge of the pot to avoid roots, it just seemed easier to gently coax the spike to a straighter position with bendable craft wire. I later changed it to black wire which is not as shiny 😆

Finally in full bloom 😊

As a Paph novice, and after watching three of my Maudiae types bloom in February, I’m thrilled to watch my first multifloral paph open up today 😊. It’s not as exotic as the specimens I’ve seen in this forum, but I’m grateful to start off positively with these easier-to-grow hybrid plants. It’s...

Excited to watch my first Paphiopedilum start to bloom. Her lip(pouch) appears fully formed. Hopefully in the next few days she’ll be more upright with a proud dorsal sepal. She’s a maudiae type paph of the vinicolor variety. Full name - Paphiopedilum Hung Sheng Bay ´Bruiser’ x Chou-Yi Apple Web...