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01-26-2013, 01:34 PM
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What's your biggest?
 I am curious as to what your biggest phal..that isn't a gigantia is? Here's mine. Love to see some pics.
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01-26-2013, 01:52 PM
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 Mine is baldan's kaleidoscope
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01-26-2013, 04:51 PM
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Impressive! Especially to this notorious Phal killer  |
01-26-2013, 08:18 PM
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Wowie orchidsarefun yours is beautiful congrats!..I had one of those...killed it  . Mine is a nobby's amy.. when I first got it it had branches and was huge. This is my re-blooming, hopefully next bloom cycle it will be acclaimated to my surroundings and give me a bigger show.
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01-27-2013, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by mattryan
Wowie orchidsarefun yours is beautiful congrats!..I had one of those...killed it . Mine is a nobby's amy.. when I first got it it had branches and was huge. This is my re-blooming, hopefully next bloom cycle it will be acclaimated to my surroundings and give me a bigger show.
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the funny thing is that I also have a Nobby's Amy and I got it about a year after the Baldan's. Its tiny....yours is a specimen in comparison !
I go to orchid nurseries as often as possible and have yet to see a bigger phal than mine, but it comes with its own unique problems - like repotting and keeping it stable ! This is the first year I had 3 spikes too.
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01-27-2013, 01:44 PM
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Here's 2 of my biggest in bloom. The pink one is schilleriana with the longest leaf at 9". The spike is 24". The only way I can manage watering and keeping the spike intact is to hang it off one of my Colmanara.
[IMG] [img=http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/7/dsc01317mn.jpg][/IMG]
The yellow one has a name tag buried somewhere it the rootmass but I can't quite remember what it is. The longest leaf on this is 10".
[IMG] [img=http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/809/dsc01319v.jpg][/IMG]
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01-27-2013, 03:24 PM
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The biggest Phal besides the gigantea is Phal. doweryensis 'Highjack' AM/AOS
Phal doweryensis 'Highjack' AM-AOS LUR_5882 by kentucky4, on Flickr
I like the bloom habits of the doweryensis because it blooms multiple times a year. The spikes also occasionally branch.
I have a couple of gigantea x doweryensis seedlings I am hoping will pick up the dowery's bloom habit and branching.
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01-27-2013, 04:21 PM
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That is one neat looking flower Brooke! I've never seen that before, thanks for the pic.
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01-27-2013, 06:27 PM
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Wow!! to state the obvious... quite lovely and robust.
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01-28-2013, 04:11 PM
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Thanks!
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