The Mutant
Well-Known Member
Has arrived! Weeee! I'm sooo happy! I've been looking forward to getting this guy ever since I booked it a bit more than a week ago and now finally it's here. :rollhappy:
It feels so thrilling having a completely new orchid genus in my flat and I can't stop running into my kitchen to take some sneak peeks at it in case I've it was just a dream (it's still there so I think it's probably real).
It looked to be in great shape to my newbie eyes. The leaves are firm and so are the roots. It got a little bit of damage on two of the leaves from the transportation, but nothing else. I cut off a yellowing leaf, put it into a fine-grade bark/sphagnum/perlite-mix and placed it on a pedestal together (but still a good bit away) from the Phal crew. I managed to coax it into a 3.5" pot and I really hope it'll like living with me.
It has a bud, but I'm expecting either an abortion or a bud blast since it has spent two days in a dark box only to end up in the hands of an utter newbie. The odds are not good for this spike.
One question though, did I plant it deep enough into the substrate? I've read the "substrate level"-thread and hope I've gotten it right.
Oh, it's a Paph. cermanense or Paph. bullenianum var. ceramensis as I think it's also called.
It feels so thrilling having a completely new orchid genus in my flat and I can't stop running into my kitchen to take some sneak peeks at it in case I've it was just a dream (it's still there so I think it's probably real).
It looked to be in great shape to my newbie eyes. The leaves are firm and so are the roots. It got a little bit of damage on two of the leaves from the transportation, but nothing else. I cut off a yellowing leaf, put it into a fine-grade bark/sphagnum/perlite-mix and placed it on a pedestal together (but still a good bit away) from the Phal crew. I managed to coax it into a 3.5" pot and I really hope it'll like living with me.
It has a bud, but I'm expecting either an abortion or a bud blast since it has spent two days in a dark box only to end up in the hands of an utter newbie. The odds are not good for this spike.
One question though, did I plant it deep enough into the substrate? I've read the "substrate level"-thread and hope I've gotten it right.
Oh, it's a Paph. cermanense or Paph. bullenianum var. ceramensis as I think it's also called.