My Leptotes unicolor orchid is blooming now
One of the mini orchids from O&M is bloming now in the nano. It came in bud so I cannot claim the honor, but it is quite lovely!!
A light upgrade in the orchid room
I really love the light fixture I got this summer in order to accommodate the growing collection and the new flask babies. In fact, I like it so much that I decided to get a second one. So, I sold the three “can” fixtures I had at the top of the window and got a second nebula hobby installed […]
Flask baby orchids status report
The flask baby project is progressing nicely… here you see the Phalaenopsis amboinensis babies.
The UK kids from Equatorial Plants are growing slowly… oh so slowly. For some you can see clear growth, especially Cattleya schilleriana and D. cyanocentrum. Even Paph. bellatulum and Phal. amboinensis (in the picture) are looking good, some are growing faster than others. Promenaea rollinsonii are […]
My vanda has decided to blom!!
My little princess (Ascocenda Princess Mikasa “Blue”) purchased by Roellke at the Gothenburg International Orchid Show in October has decided to flower. Two stalks are in the making… This is my first vanda, I am SOOOOO excited!!
The mystery paphiopedilum orchid
So, I am fianlly going to find out what this little one looks like. It was the second orchid I bought after moving back home to Sweden and it is probably som kind of maudie hybrid but fact is, I do not know what it looks like. After about a year and a half of growth it has finally decided to bloom! So […]
Oh oh… trouble in paradise!
Okay, looked into the nano cabinet last night and it seems like I have a fungus problem on my hands… Two masdevallia orchids, tuerckheimii (left) and guttulata (right) are affected. Dang!!
As much as this sucks, I think I know what the problem is … when I watering water is dripping from the orchids hanging above these guys. With this many plants in the nano the […]
My first semi-hydro orchid project
I decided to give semi-hydro a try – finally! I have been dying to try this for years and really do not know why it took this long to just go for it…. Anyway, here is my new Maxillaria variabilis (red) from O&M in s/h leca. I will return with a status report.
Learned something new, again!
Today, I had to replant all my orchid flask babies. I learned that the aluminum baking trays I was usng for pots, when put in water on leca do not last… do not know what causes it, but the bottom is entirely “eroded”. Then of course, the moss is wicking up […]
How it all started…
I got a question today… How it all started, the orchid obsession that is (his words not mine).
Well, it’s almost a little embarrassing to admit, but it was a teen infatuation that opened my eyes to orchids actually… Who? Morten Harket, naturally you remember the singer from the 80s group A-ha… Apparently, he grew orchids and the rest, as they say, is history.