I think I am ready to Purchase

[rmack5]

Sorry, I forgot the camera, but I have some pics of what I purchased. So any help on these orchids would be great. The seller just said, these are easy orchids, moderate light, water every 3-5 days. Now the research begins.

[rmack5]

Just had one more that I bought

[blackorchid]

I think the plants in the first post are supposed to be easy to grow. Paph. Honey is a primary hybrid between phillippinense and primulinum. Paph. primulinum, as I heard, is a fast grower and very easy to grow and blooms for a long time. So I think the Paph will do fine under your condition. Peggy Ruth and Twinkle are really famous hybrids and easy to grow. I think it should be the same for the Dgmra, easy to grow. Personally, I had the Twinkle and they spread like crazy. Keep this guy at Intermediate to cool location because one of its parent is a cool growing species (O. ornithorhynchum, I don't know about the other one though)
About the orange flower, I think it's a mix between the 3 species Oncidium, Cochlioda, and Odontoglossum (Oda = Cochlioda x Odontoglossum). Cochlioda and Odontoglossum are cloud forest orchids so generally, they prefer cool night and very high humidity. Therefore, I figure this hybrid would like a lot of humidity, Intermediate during the day and Cool at night. Any suggestion?
As for light, keep them medium including the paph. A bright East Window is good enough.
I think the last one is gonna be a little tough. We hope more people will give suggestion on this.



P/S: I love the Peggy Ruth. So charming!!

[rmack5]

Thanks so much for your help. I asked the grower for warmer, moderate light and moderate humidity... and you see what I got. Upon returning home, I researched the orchids I purchased on this forum. I did find that some of them are cooler orchids... So what does that mean really? I guess I really need to know some temp ranges. Why do you think the last one will be hard. I thought oncidiums were easy to grow.

[blackorchid]

Warm-growing Oncidium are easy to grow but some requires intermediate to cool temp. Odontioda is definitely a cool grower (with high humidity) and I just find them hard to grow because it is hard to get those environment indoor. Basically around 70s in the day and lower at night. I hope the hybrid will be easier due to hybrid vigor. Try to give them Intermediate temp. Hope they do well.