Now I am a bit confused … one of the buds on my Angraecum florulentum has begun to fade. The other 4 buds are thankfully developing nicely and are looking fine – so far. I really have no idea why this one bud (top left) has decided to blast on me. 😐
I have never had this happen on buds I have cultivated myself – just in new […]
True to form, the fabulous Phalaenopsis Marbella flower spike I managed to break (!) a month ago (See: “DANG!!“) has begun to grow again! YES!!
This plant is extremely willing to please, it loves to bloom, and I bummed out for quite some time after breaking the spike. Now she is bouncing back as I had hoped. So I set her back about […]
Wow, I thougth the plant I bought about 6 weeks ago was a little too small to bloom, but Look what I found when I was watering… the beginning of a flowerstalk!! Yay! This is very exciting news. I know I have told you guys before, but it was really the Phalaenopsis bellina that triggered the dream for a warm vivarium in the […]
Another success story! The Angraecum florulentum I got a little over a year ago was doing ok on the windowsill, growing (albeit very slowly) but not flowering. Ever since I moved it into the warm vivarium it has been practically glowing. New leaves are coming on several branches and I have two flower stalks with 3 and 2 buds each and they are all developing as they […]
You can tell that spring is coming. In the orchid room at least (outside it snowed again yesterday and today it slush all over the place). There are a lot of new buds forming, and one of the coolest looking ones is the Encyclia (Prostechea) cochleata flower pod. It looks like a small embryo (or an alien, whichever) is growing inside the protective […]
My first flask baby orchids have grown up enough to move out into the world. They are still small, but they are off to a good home. A quite well grown little Dendrobium cyanocentrum and a Promenaea rollinsonii baby plus a little keiki off my Gastrochilus calceolaris is now on their way to their new home with Jonas in Malmö. We have been talking about this trade for a couple of months already, but it […]
Today was spring cleaning in the nano vivarium. I took the whole thing apart, cleaned out the watering system and polished the tube. To do that I had to lift out the whole EpiWeb wall/branch assembly which gave me a good opportunity to go over and inspect each plant since that is really hard to do when it is inside the […]
While watering this afternoon I managed to brake the flower stalk off my Phalaenopsis Marbella… Last time she bloomed the stalk branched off, now I have to hope that she really wants to bloom and decides to branch where it broke istead of aborting the blooming season… #%@*&!!!
I decided to move the Ascocentropsis pusilla from the nano vivarium to the warm vivarium. It was not doing much of anything in the nano and I was thinking it might like the light in the other viv better (it’s much stronger). So, my Saturday crafts project was to mount this little thing on a tiny clay pipe along with some live moss.
I really like the […]
My dear husband found a very nice surprise for me this week. There is a second bud coming on the big Paphiopedilum American Hybrid. It is going to be nice with two of these big showy flowers at the same time. I suppose it is only fitting that he should find it, being a big beautiful American himself…
So far I […]