Twice a year I drag in all my 100+ orchids, one by one, into the shower so I can flush through the growing media extra thoroughly. I usually rinse through the media with just clean water without any fertilizer every 4-6 weeks or so, in addition to this “big rinse”. It is important to do this as excess fertilizer, minerals and salts build […]
Since most of the orchid flask babies from last summer has moved from the nursery I thought it was time for a new set of little ones. It takes time to look after the little ones, but I really enjoy following their development. Here we have the new gang from Equatorial Plants plus a bottle of Sedirea japonica seedlings I bought from […]
I this is one of the nicer looking Cattleyas there are. The shape and subtle coloring really appeals to me. It is a cool to warm growing medium sized Cattleya with nice long-lived, fragrant, waxy flowers. My clone does not have a very strong scent, but you can definitely smell it in the early morning when the sun warms it up.
I bought this orchid earlier this summer […]
This sucks!!! I found red spider mites (Panonychus ulmi, or rött spinn in Swedish) on a plant I received in a trade a while back. What really upsets me is that the plant arrived infected and I did not know what to look for. I have never had to deal with spider mites before, but the horror stories I […]
My adorable little Phalaenopsis Mini Mark ‘Holm’ bought from Karge in April is now finally blooming! There are two spikes with 9 buds, four of which has already opened. This is by my estimation quite possibly one of the very best man made hybrid results there are. At least in the Phalaenopsis family. The distinct shape and beautiful coloring is a triumph […]
I have been dreading sitting down and really figuring out how to fix all the stuff that broke when I upgraded the blog software to the latest version. Practically all the external plugins stopped working, but most developers were quick with fixes – but not the most important one, the one I use to manage photos. Kind of disturbing to be so reliant on one person/plugin to make the blogging a pleasurable and smooth operation, but […]
Finally it is time for some summer vacation!!
The vandas had to come with us to the summer house since they require daily watering. And why not? After bringing one (the princess Mikasa) on ski vacation last winter, I figured that all of them deserved a few weeks at a nice little red cottage by the coast for summer….
It […]
I am having some problems with a few plugins on the site after doing the latest WordPress (the blogging software) 2.8 upgrade. As much as it really sucks, I am working on figuring out what went wrong and how to work around it. Until then the images might not work as desired – popping up as new windows instead of lightboxes, not enlarging as they are supposed to etc. etc. etc.
Thanks for being patient!
The beautiful and fragrant first flower faded just a few days ago, and there she goes again… Bud number two from the lovely Ms. Phalaenopsis bellina has started to open. And just like the song (apparently inspired by a seductive street walker), she is indeed quite seductive – although I would definitely not call her a streetwalker. This lady has class!
There is something uniquely special about orchid […]
This weekend the remaining Cattleya schilleriana flask babies moved out of the community pot to single occupancy dwellings.
Since I mounted the first few babies several months ago and placed them in the warm vivarium, I wanted to try growing these in intermediate conditions.
I mounted the strongest one and hung it in the window, the remaining little ones went into pots. Since schilleriana likes well drained media I placed them […]