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I find hybrids distasteful. And then here’s one with stunning leaves that blooms for me and… then I become a hypocrite. SlipperTalkers identified this plant for me as Ho Chi Minh a few years ago. I think it’s a funny story; I made annual visits to the general city nursery where this plant sat...

These Disa uniflora are from Afrodisia. I gave a flask to my Aunt as an early birthday gift one year ago; we had been dreaming of Disa for decades. She potted them carefully in Aircone pot, in high-quality sphagnum with a thick underlayering of perlite. She had them only a few weeks before she...

I am doing a gig in northwest Arkansas for a few months and being put up in a company efficiency apartment. It has one window, facing glancingly southwest. I brought a few “project” slippers but mostly my water-culture Vandas, a Peristeria, some of my more expensive Neofinetia, a Bulbophyllum...

I’ve been home for a total of 5 days in 6 weeks but my plants seem to be doing ok so far. Some welcome surprises, including this P. concolor and also the second blooming of Ho Chi Minh this year. Here’s hoping I can get someone to water during the heat wave next week. The P. concolor coming out...

This was set up just inside the door, with a $699 price. Hadn’t seen the like before and thought some might enjoy its flame. Also, Hausermann’s is awash in Ho Chi Minhs, including this big ‘un. I was also fascinated by the lurid-sepia Grammatophyllum.

Wondering if anyone can provide a reference or experience with this vendor? https://tomorchid.com/products

Purchased from Hausermann’s last February after coming across a post in here of an absolutely stunning plant that was mounted to a large stone and clearly loved the culture; anyone who knows that photo will surely validate my wonderment. Have had mine a year now so I’ll take credit (and relief...

Picked this up for cheap at Chicago Botanic Garden Orchid Sale in 2018. It waned and waxed. Finally had 8 growths with 4 spikes last year, all destroyed when I poisoned everything through my own misunderstanding/ignorance about how my RO filter needs to be maintained. It likes to sit in nearly...

My Aunt imported this Cymbidium kanran “Pink” from Wenqing Perner in spring 2017. It was a nice-looking specimen, probably 8 total bulbs, long thick roots. She tried to grow it like her other Cymbidiums, in bark, summers outside, winter in her greenhouse. It struggled. She switched to growing...

You know how it happens. The last thing you need is yet another random grocery-store Phalaenopsis but you need a gift for somebody and they’re a BOGO bargain and you’ve never seen quite THIS particular odd color before and the plant looks so healthy and…home it comes. I got this weird subtle...

I couldn’t resist grabbing these weirdos from among a thousand delenatii seedlings. I’m sure one of you must have seen this patterning before. Can you tell me what, if anything, it signifies about the flower? I’m assuming it remains stable. I’m calling it “Motherboard,” as the pattern reminds me...

First bloom. Tiny plant insistent upon climbing up Up UP away from the medium. You can see a stalled or aborted bud on the original growth. Foliage seems dull to me, not sure what’s going on there. Probably needs repotting but I always wait until bloom fades. I love the colors; the dorsal is...

Very proud of this one. I imported two of these from Wenqing Perner in spring 2018 (I think? Time flies!). Both went through a very rough adaptation period with rapidly browning foliage; this seems to happen with every Jensoa I import. I’m not sure what causes it abs I don’t know how I turn it...

Wondering if anyone grows Dimorphorchis? I’d like to try but they seem hard to find. I do well with Vandas in water culture. Wondering if anyone has sources on these? Seedlings, compots, I’d ever be into flasks. Thanks for any suggestions/leads/tips.

As I say every chance I get, this is my favorite species. I first read about it in Dr. Koopowitz’ PLANT EXTINCTION: A GLOBAL CRISIS, in the 90s. It seemed very hard to find for sale at that time. The story of how untold numbers were ripped from Hong Kong habitat, in bloom, to be sunk into fish...

I’ve wanted to succeed with this plant for so long. I had given up ever managing it. They always died on me. In 2017, I could not resist trying again with a seedling from Hausermann’s open house. I mean, it was like $4 with the open house discount. Teeny tiny tuft of just-deflasked nothings. I...

From Paphiness on eBay in November 2018. Originally a product of Orchid Zone, he scooped up the batch and grew them out. Never had seen an orange Cymbidium before so I pounced. This plant has led me a merry chase through moss to bark to LECA just to try and keep it alive; this past spring I was...

My Sam Tsui stuff came today. Couldn’t be happier. Had to have the Paphiopedilum braemii (“New Wave” x self) because I’m such a fan of its namesake and figured this little tonsum will be a joy forever. But then I couldn’t resist the idea of a multifloral P. niveum (“Perfect Circle” x “Three...

Rescue with half a root and one leaf, August 2015. This is 3rd blooming. It didn’t bloom at all until 3 years ago, when it threw up 5 spikes with 58 buds. Only about 30 opened then. Last year, one spike with 22 flowers but it only lasted a week. This year, off two mature bulbs, 5 spikes, 87...

So many stellar choices… tempted toward the Paph. tigrinum but which one??? Always the same (stunning) photo. P. tigrinum seems challenging…and large…hmmmm. The wardii album is exquisite… https://orchidinnusa.com/flask/?sort=featured&page=5