What orchid Excites you the most when it blooms?

[Kevin_PR]

I already know what most people are gonna say, "any orchid that blooms" but come on there ha to be 1 or 2 that really put on a show you can't help but tell everyone its in flower.

For me it is Epidendrum ilense. Absolutely love it, cute fimbriated lip. I did a hybrid between Brassavola nodosa and Epi ilense, never got to see the blooms.(All seedlings died after a couple months.)

Of the orchids that are going to bloom I'd say Oncidium carthagenense is looking pretty spectacular. It has 2 spikes that have been developiong for the last 3 months. One is 5' tall ang growing the other seems like its gonna top off at 7'. I hope all the buds make it there are hundreds.

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Epidendrum ilense is very nice (again first time seeing this). I must say from my collection, it is Bulbophyllums I love the most, and my #1 is Medusae. Being said, I have never had my Dendros blooming and I really really really can't wait for my Anosmum and also all nobile dendros to bloom for the first time, I am pretty sure than I will re evaluate:-)

[Sharry]

1) Mine: Oncidium hastilabium: This thing has a five foot tall stalk. It lasts as a cut flower so one year when it bloomed I took the stalk to work.

2) What I covet: A monkey- form Dracula and a red mini catt.

[Kevin_PR]

Originally Posted by Sharry

1) Mine: Oncidium hastilabium: This thing has a five foot tall stalk. It lasts as a cut flower so one year when it bloomed I took the stalk to work.

2) What I covet: A monkey- form Dracula and a red mini catt.

R u willing to trade anything for a piece of that Onc.?

[Vanda lover]

Vandas of coarse. Huge, netted flowers suck as pachong blue.

[czygyny]

My Phal Baldan's Kaleidoscope x Golden Treasure in that has produced nearly 20 or so long-lasting blooms at a time when it's happy. It's always a highly anticipated event for me.

[RosieC]

For me recently it was a NoID Zygopetalum. Simply because it was on a long road to recovery from getting down to just one rootless, leafless back bulb.

I don't think I have one plant that excites me more than others when it flowers, it's usually those which have been longest since they last flowered.

[WhiteRabbit]

Right now, it's my Cym. dayanum. Had it four years before it bloomed for the first time last autumn! So I am very happy and excited to have recently spotted three spikes on it! I was worried that last year's blooming might have been a freak accident ;p

Any that spike for the first time in my care - more so if I have had the plant a few years without it blooming.

C. intermedia v. coerulea - just love the blooms!

Should I manage to rebloom V. coerulea, I shall be extremely excited about that!

And should I ever get blooms on Cym. tracyanum (propagated back bulb), that will be very exciting, too!

[Island Girl]

My Restrepia striata... I didn't think I could get it to bloom, in my heat... But it has been blooming all summer long, since May... One flower after another... I think it's on it's 35th bloom? love it.

And Brassavola nodosas, I love them too, and the fragrance? Oh, it's intoxicating! (but have killed a couple over the years, so haven't gotten any to re-bloom... It was one of those "one thing after another" type deals with these guys for me... But, I'm on my way this year *fingers crossed*)

[Island Girl]

here is a pic from my phone, just a pic of one flower (have better pics on my camera, with ALOT more blooms on the whole plant), just so y'all can see