Local orchid club meeting booty!!!

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Rosiefuture

Hi Damian, you are in the eastern states aren't you?

What a great haul you got! Don't you just love buying from orchid clubs! I love the cat, magnificent colour.

All my orchids are outside, I'm trying to talk hubby into letting me build an orchid house.

Marion

Hi Marion,
yep in West Gippsland, Victoria.. Thanks Truly I can't imagine anywhere else I could have gotten the same plants in spike mounted on such big pieces of treefern for the same price ..

Actually it's motivated to me attend all my orchid meetings early so as not to miss out

I think my hobby GH was under or around the $200 mark, how are your orchids doing with the lower humidity [of being outside as opposed to be enclosed inside a GH]?

[Lagoon]

Nice score Damien, Love the SLC - beautiful color

[cb977]

Great deal, Damian!

I just LOVE anything with C Chocolate Drop as a parent

[Ross]

Damian, I hate to rain on your parade, so to speak, (just think of me as Simon Cowel) but your Mum get the best part of the deal! Her's was free! You had to pay for yours. Get it....? Just kidding! Really! Great luck you have there kiddo!

[Tindomul]

Wow!! Nice Slc.!!! Those are some of my favorite Catt types . Great haul!!!

[daemondamian]

Thanks guys I couldn't go past that glorious lushious deep red


I've also discovered it is most fragrant early in the day.

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by rsfrid

Damian, I hate to rain on your parade, so to speak, (just think of me as Simon Cowel) but your Mum get the best part of the deal! Her's was free! You had to pay for yours. Get it....? Just kidding! Really! Great luck you have there kiddo!

Yeah I get it!

[Tindomul]

ITs fragrant too!!! Nice!

[Mahon]

Originally Posted by daemondamian

Thanks All I did was take in my Cochleanthes aromatica 'Magnifica' and fill in card.

Great job blooming it! Any pics of your award winning plant?

Originally Posted by daemondamian

Someone brought a blooming Dracula cordabae...

...I always wonder how they do it The change in temperature, I would think, would make the flowers wilt, droop, sag, or do anything but look good...

spelling is Dracula cordobae...

-Pat

[daemondamian]

Originally Posted by Mahon

Great job blooming it! Any pics of your award winning plant?



...I always wonder how they do it The change in temperature, I would think, would make the flowers wilt, droop, sag, or do anything but look good...

spelling is Dracula cordobae...

-Pat

Thanks Pat,
the judges at the meeting gave a talk about some criteria and I learned that there is an ideal flower to leaf/bulbs ratio and all the blooms should look their best
at the same time.

My Cochleanthes only had 1 bloom on it, which was really on it's last legs and died the next day and the other bud on the plant chose not to open until after the meeting of course!

Maybe when it gets bigger it might do that

Here's the link to my blog entry I made on it, which has photos of the first bloom:

Cochleanthes aromatica 'Magnifica' | Orchids Online

And here's a link to a photo of the second bloom just after it opened but still in the opening 'out' stage:

CaromaticaMagnificanewbloomBIG.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

One of the judges was saying that you often people with draculas have a spray bottle at shows and every now then give them a mist..

Thanks for the spelling correction

I wish I had a photo, it was gorgeous It was growing in a net basket in sphag-a medium I hate and couldn't get right [too wet = rot] so I took all my Pleuro. alliance out of it... strangely the Cochleathes is in sphag but doing fine .