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Got my package from Schwerter today! 🥳 Now I just have to let them stay in the box for 12 hours (per Schwerter's instructions) to let them slowly get used to the warmer temperatures after their cold trip here. Jon inspected and approved of the package:

I was waffling about whether or not to buy this one. I've always loved the flowers but never felt confident enough to try and grow one. Also not a big fan of the plant itself out of bloom, but I decided to try something new and it followed me home from the garden center a couple of days ago...

I've frequently been checking vendors here in the EU, planning what to order when it's warm enough for shipping. As it looks now, I'll go with Schwerter as I have good experience with them. So far, these are the two - three that I know I'm going to order: Phal. Mini Mark (always loved this...

The start of me having orchids again are just some ordinary NoID Phals, bought at local stores. I bought them to see if I'm capable of caring for them without burning out again. I hope I will but we'll see. The first I bought didn't have that many roots that I could see and the substrate was...

Hello everybody! Some of you will recognize me as I was quite active here... whenever that was again. :p I stopped with orchids due to total burnout and it's taken me a very long time to recover enough to hang here again (you're very nice people after all). I was also diagnosed with autism...

I took a quick peek at the roots on my Paph. hookerae yesterday (only removed a few bits of bark), and found the root system being surrounded by this weird brown fuzz. Some kind of fungus I figured, but the roots looked healthy so I decided to not do anything about it except to try and find out...

I forgot yet another orchid that I actually managed to take two photos earlier this summer. This is my one of my two species Phals I have left (the other one is a lindenii), and this is only the second time it has flowered since I got it about three years ago. It took me some time to figure...

I completely forgot about this one. It has been in flower for about two months now, and it has faded considerably compared to when I took the pictures. I really like the colour on this one, which is why I managed to at least snap a couple of shots of it (my appletonianum and my callosum var...

So, one of the newbies decided to flower all of a sudden, which means I have flowered my second multi now, and I'm wondering why I didn't start out with these much easier hybrids in the beginning. It's not spectacular in any way, except that it looks drunk or something. I do like those dark...

Hello guys, long time no see. :) I need some advice on what to do with my little Paph. violascens since it looks like it might be in low bud. It's still not certain that it's actually in bud, but on the off chance that it is, what should I do? Should I nip the theoretical bud as soon as I...

Or, hi, long time no see! Lot of things have happened IRL (except no interesting Paphs flowering...), which is why I haven't been here. Still a lot going on so I'll probably still be rather inactive. I just wanted to stop by and share a bit of happiness with you. I got a new compact camera...

Finally! It took forever for it to open all of the buds and unfurl the flowers enough for me to take pictures of them. This is my little darling that I've had for about 1½ years now. This is its third flowering since I got it, so it seems easy to get to flower. The first time it had 3...

I'm pondering about what to repot my Phrag. Sunset glow into whenever it thinks it's done with flowering. However, if every flower is going to last almost a month like the first one did, then maybe I should repot it anyway... It's planted in a fine-graded fir bark, sphagnum, perlite mix, and...

I'm trying to help a fellow member of the Swedish orchid forum identify what could be going on with two of her Paphs. Here are the afflicted leaves in question: Whatever it is it seems to be very slow spreading as she noticed it on her Gloria Naugle before summer and now she noticed the...

I know it's impossible to tell from just the foliage, but I thought I should ask. I've had hookerae on my wishlist for a while and decided to strike right after new year and bought a BS one. It turned out to be two different Paphs stuffed together in one pot. I'm uncertain about if they could...

This is the only NoID Phal I've left and it's going to stay with me as long as I can keep it alive and happy. I bought it about 3 years ago and when I pulled it out of its pot it turned out it had no roots left. After some TLC it grew some new roots and is now a reliable bloomer. If I'm...

Because, why not? This year hasn't really started out well... I discovered what is most likely scales on one of the newest acquisitions today. They're incredibly small, but I've read that that probably has to do with their age, round, glossy, reddish brown, blisters on top of some of the...

I just wanted to ask what causes the pigmentation on the underside of the leaves to increase/decrease? Is it the light levels? Less light = more pigmentation? I'm curious because my Paph. Wössner Kolarmi has gotten more pigmentation since I got it home; I can even tell how much the new leaf...

So, what's up with my baby villosum? It has been getting these kind of really strangely coloured leaves ever since I got it home about 2½ years ago: My theories have ranged from, virus, nutrient deficiency, light issue, to variegation. It has been growing right next to my other...

I just want a bit of sympathy, since I've been repotting Paphs lately, and I hate it. The reason I hate it is because most of the ones I'm repotting, have root systems from hell! Sure, lots of roots are always nice, but not when you have to insert the bark at the bottom of the pot, piece by...