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That is the spike emerging. Can't remember when it finally bloomed late summer / early fall. Really massive flower.

If I can get them all to grow well, I'll have a lot of extras ...

Funny this should show up today. These are about a year out of flask.Growing pretty well in the compots. Afraid to repot them. Don't want to lose any. I have been researching and searching the web but not a lot of info out there. How do others grow these?

They are if you purchase them from Hengduan Biotech. You can even get copies of the CITEs from China.

I bought several and had them delivered to a show. The plants were extremely small. The flasks were shaken pretty bad. I had to deflask everything immediately. Nothing survived. I have purchased over 100 flasks in the last three years. I have lost almost none. I get all my phrag flasks from...

you will notice two have some sphagnum on top. They really don't like this. I tried several things. Fine bark & rock & perlite seems to give the best result (50%, 25%, 25%).

and yet vietnamense is now legal.

Someone needs to work with DFG to get permission to breed confiscated plants. That's what Antec labs did back in the day to get vietnamense legal. I think this was also done for several other new species.

illegal in the US. eBay stuff is some guys in Thailand. Lot of illegal stuff on eBay.

Wow, nice! I have one of those and judging by the size of yours, I have a long wait ahead of me ...

Lot of places on amazon which have really large perlite. For medium (1/4 - 5/16") the only reliable place I've found is waldor orchids.

I bought some venus fly trap seeds. They grew into big cactus ... All of the hot peppers seeds I bought were not even peppers. I don't buy seeds except from established companies now.

Have you ever seen 'hall's classic' FCC/AOS from 1996? These petals are thin. Although the FCC doesn't mean that it might not be correct either.

roths are always worth keeping. Hard to get rid off even when you have to many. If it grows well for you and bloom regularly, the color and shaped are always fine!

Me too!!! Can't wait for the insignes to bloom. I also prefer the flowers as mother nature intended. Just hope I can keep them alive.

Just purchased three jungles collected paphs from an estate sale: spicerianum 'st albans', insigne sanderae 'halls classic' and insigne 'harefield hall'

charlesworthii fairrieanum coccinium spicerianum

Wish I took the pictures when the flowers were younger.

Both of mine passed away before they bloomed :(. Good luck with yours.

These grow like weeds for me. One of the few I can reliably bloom every year. I have noticed that the shape, size and color vary on the same plant every year. I've almost got rid of two because of the shape. The next year the shape was great, although the color wasn't as good. I would say this...