Recent content by JustinR

Cool and very unusual. Seems to be pretty rare, could you post a photo of the whole plant for posterity?

Nice pouch on that one, congrats. From the photo it appears that it does not have glossy leaves, is that not diagnostic for this species? Or perhaps it is just the photo does not show it?

beautiful plant and photos, very elegant

Nights dipping into the 50s should be no problem for delenatii, I think it is considered to be intermediate rather than warm? At least that is my experience.

Thanks for the info and background. That victoria-mariae is actually a hybrid doesn't surprise me, it was pretty cheap and already in spike. Pretty cool that I got a kalinae, it is an interesting plant.

Sequential bloomer. It's kind of an odd one with big round leaves. Vegetatively it reminds me of a cabbage for some reason :D . It grew pretty fast from seedling to flowering in 2 years. The comparison photos are with victoria mariae.

Nice blooms! I agree with BigCatt that the background is all important. If you can use the depth of field control on your camera to blur the background it will emphasise the beauty of the flowers. You can use a tripod with timer release, single focus point on e.g. the lip of flower and shallow...

If you are on a budget and have the patience I suggest to look at purchasing seedlings instead of flowering size plants. Its a lot of fun and you will become a better grower. Then you can also better appreciate why they are not cheap as chips.

I had a greenhouse fire that killed everything > 10 years ago. It was covered by the insurance, plants included. But I imagine their willingness to payout would depend on the nature of the greenhouse (private / non-commercial), the conditions of the insurance and the cost of replacement.

Beautiful plant, even without flowers :D . You might need to trigger it into flowering somehow, but I have no idea for this type of hybrid how you best might do that. I noticed that a lot of my paphs seem to be triggered by decreased day length / cooler / dryer conditions. But I wouldn't dare...

wild guess: trianei x Toshi Aoki

The plant looks pretty healthy, the browned off part of the plant looks like an old fan that has already flowered. It is natural for the old fans that have bloomed to die back. So probably no urgent need to repot. If new growth starts to die back I would repot it immediately.

Wow that is an amazing coerulea form of Dupreana, congrats. For comparison I have this tipo form which flowered recently, I think it was an import from Brazil.

Interesting topic, I asked myself the same question and for Cattleyas I would agree. For paphs it might vary from species to species and there are so many variables, 30 degC in the sun will stress the plant a lot more than 30 degC in the shade. I noticed that some of my paphs were getting...

I think wallisii is a synonym of eldorado. It doesn't seem to be that hard to get these days, the M. Ito clone is regularly offered for sale over here in the EU (though there might be some doubt if that clone is a true species). You could also consider some of the bifoliate species: aclandiae...