BOOYAH!!!!

[Leafmite]

Congratulations on those laelias! Wow!

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Congratulations to everyone else, too!

[GardenTheater]

Woohoo, good growing everyone!
My phals don't spike until Feb/March and one noid is still blooming.
2 L. pumilas are blooming
Laelia Santa Barbara Sunset has 2 shoots and maybe a third. It's a great bloomer. If all goes well I should get 2 or 3 spikes.
Laelia anceps looks like 3 to 5 spikes--it's just beginning to send out shoots so I'll be optimistic.
Aergs. luteo-alba rhodosticta has a spike
Brassocattleya Marcella Koss 'Pink Marvel', AM/AOS came with an empty sheath from vendor. I keep looking for bud as it's suppose to bloom in fall.
Brassolaeliocattleya Sylvia Fry 'Supreme', AM/AOS also came with a sheath from vendor and is a spring bloomer...very long wait.
Good thing RJ will have plenty of photos to post, while I'm waiting for these.

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Forgot to mention the Masd. veitchiana has two tiny spikes. This one is outdoors and I move to garage when temps freeze. I have had it a year and this will be first blooming under my care...fingers crossed.

[DweamGoiL]

None of mine are spiking. These mealybugs really did a job on my orchids. At least, I am that much closer to showing them the door.

Nice job, everyone!

[kindrag23]

Originally Posted by DweamGoiL

None of mine are spiking. These mealybugs really did a job on my orchids. At least, I am that much closer to showing them the door.

Nice job, everyone!

DANG YOU MEALYBUGS!!!!

[RJSquirrel]

mealy bugs try to run and ruin your fun
you got to smak em back when they attack

I had mealys one time and I ended up tossin out the plant after it gave me its last flower. Got a 3rd place ribbon on it too .

I swore I would never have mealy bugs again...

But on a 'nother note. Im sad the bowringiana is losing the buds. I got plenty others but its so hard to see your buds after 2 years of hard growing just fall off. I dunno. The plant has gotten so big If I cant get it to bloom properly it will have to go bye bye..

found more sheaths today too...so Im not all bummed out ya know.

[The Mutant]

Hmm... All my Phals are quite happy with their mommy this year, while my Paphs are busy with other things I think.

The Phals that are spiking:
Princess Kaiulani 'Miki' (it's its third attempt at flowering since I bought it last year, I hope it'll make it this time).
Schilleriana
Stuartiana
Wiganiae (second flowering for this year)
Ambotris (second flowering for this year)
The Mutant (my peloric NoID, second flowering for this year)
Tzu Chiang Orange (still flowering from previous two spikes)
Queen Beer 'Tiny Doll' (recently repotted and I cut the two spikes it had, so it could focus on establish itself in its new, gigantic pot. It immediately put out a new spike and a new leaf...)
Miniature NoID that looks like Jiaho's Pink Girl (second flowering)
Lindenii
Celebensis (discovered the spike just a minute ago)
Bernice Maskin (I think the spike has stalled though)
Sogo Vivien 'Golden Vivien'

This means, that out of 26 Phals, there's only three that are not flowering or being in spike... Wow, getting rid of those reluctant bloomers, seems to have paid off.

When it comes to my 48 Paphs though, things look really different. Here's what's in spike at the moment:
Paph. Something Unknown... I bought it as a henryanum, but it looks like it might be a villsoum, or a villosum hybrid. We'll se when the bud opens.
I might have two others in sheath, but it's too early to tell, and they've been quite busy fooling me this summer...

One of my two Phrags is spiking too, which makes me very happy.