Blc. Mahina Yahiro ‘Mishima’

[Merita]

This beautiful cattleya is giving me only 2 flowers every year, will it be because the plant is small?

[SouthPark]

Beautiful pair of pink flowers. Excellent shape and colours. Maybe 2 per stem is typical for this kind of orchid. It might even eventually produce 3 per stem in future growing seasons maybe.

[Merita]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

Beautiful pair of pink flowers. Excellent shape and colours. Maybe 2 per stem is typical for this kind of orchid. It might even eventually produce 3 per stem in future growing seasons maybe.

My concern is the growth of only one pod per year, most of mine grow more than one pod in the second year. It can also be the intense heat of the past year that stressed them a lot.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Merita

My concern is the growth of only one pod per year, most of mine grow more than one pod in the second year. It can also be the intense heat of the past year that stressed them a lot.

Flowering, and producing nice sizeable flowers like that can definitely take a lot out of an orchid. I think that as long as the orchid's leaves and bulbs look healthy, and the growing conditions are good, then that should be ok.

Your orchid managed to produce two big flowers that look great. If it had been less energetic, it could easily have done something else - such as abort one bud and produce a single flower instead. In your case - a great result!

[Merita]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

Flowering, and producing nice sizeable flowers like that can definitely take a lot out of an orchid. I think that as long as the orchid's leaves and bulbs look healthy, and the growing conditions are good, then that should be ok.

Your orchid managed to produce two big flowers that look great. If it had been less energetic, it could easily have done something else - such as abort one bud and produce a single flower instead. In your case - a great result!

Some have had a very large flower but with another pod with more flowers. This is the Mitsuo Akatsuka, it has been open for 3 weeks and measures more than 6 inches but it also has another pod with 3 flowers.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Merita

Some have had a very large flower but with another pod with more flowers. This is the Mitsuo Akatsuka, it has been open for 3 weeks and measures more than 6 inches but it also has another pod with 3 flowers.

That's beautiful! This orchid is probably going to have a really nice rest after this flowering season!!

[Merita]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

That's beautiful! This orchid is probably going to have a really nice rest after this flowering season!!

The photo is turned away because I still have not found an application that I like to change the size and use the phone to pass them to the ipad. How do your photos look great? How many pixels should they have to post them in the forum? I am in another forum that accept up to 300 kb, much easier to reduce them.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Merita

The photo is turned away because I still have not found an application that I like to change the size and use the phone to pass them to the ipad. How do your photos look great? How many pixels should they have to post them in the forum? I am in another forum that accept up to 300 kb, much easier to reduce them.

Merita ----- OrchidBoard does have an image processing software that it uses after we upload a photo.

The orchidboard software does its thing after we've uploaded our image. I think it can accept images of megabyte size ..... but mobile phone photos that are side-ways will not be automatically rotated by the orchidboard software. So a photo editor software would need to be used to rotate side-ways photos prior to upload.

The orchidboard software will accept large images and then it reduces them down to a smaller image .... such as with the rough dimensions of 1024 pixels across and 768 pixels wide. These are rough dimensions for cases where the original photo has a width to height pixel ratio of 4:3. So just depends on the ratio of the original photo.

Interestingly, if we do upload a photo that is already around 1024 x 768 pixels, I notice that orchidboard's software will still process that already-reduced photo. It basically removes more information from it, so the actually gets reduced. In other words, if we upload say a 1000 pixel by 600 pixel image ..... orchidboard's software will still produce a roughly 1000 pixel by 600 pixel image .... but with reduced quality! It compresses the original image - throws out information.

Anyway - for regular Microsoft Windows operating systems, there is a nice free photo editing software - Paint.Net - that's exactly what it is called --- Paint dot Net. That's what I use for resizing or reducing or rotating my photos prior to upload. But - once again - the orchidboard software does allow large size file uploads. But the final image that gets shown after processing will be around the size of 1024 x 768 pixel (if the original image was 4:3 ratio).

[Merita]

Originally Posted by SouthPark

Merita ----- OrchidBoard does have an image processing software that it uses after we upload a photo.

The orchidboard software does its thing after we've uploaded our image. I think it can accept images of megabyte size ..... but mobile phone photos that are side-ways will not be automatically rotated by the orchidboard software. So a photo editor software would need to be used to rotate side-ways photos prior to upload.

The orchidboard software will accept large images and then it reduces them down to a smaller image .... such as with the rough dimensions of 1024 pixels across and 768 pixels wide. These are rough dimensions for cases where the original photo has a width to height pixel ratio of 4:3. So just depends on the ratio of the original photo.

Interestingly, if we do upload a photo that is already around 1024 x 768 pixels, I notice that orchidboard's software will still process that already-reduced photo. It basically removes more information from it, so the actually gets reduced. In other words, if we upload say a 1000 pixel by 600 pixel image ..... orchidboard's software will still produce a roughly 1000 pixel by 600 pixel image .... but with reduced quality! It compresses the original image - throws out information.

Anyway - for regular Microsoft Windows operating systems, there is a nice free photo editing software - Paint.Net - that's exactly what it is called --- Paint dot Net. That's what I use for resizing or reducing or rotating my photos prior to upload. But - once again - the orchidboard software does allow large size file uploads. But the final image that gets shown after processing will be around the size of 1024 x 768 pixel (if the original image was 4:3 ratio).

Thanks for the explanation, I will not make further reductions, the ipad does not say the size of the photo but the email of the phone does. The photo is turned away because I straighten it on the phone, I did not remember that it could not be uploaded. Greetings.

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by Merita

Thanks for the explanation, I will not make further reductions, the ipad does not say the size of the photo but the email of the phone does. The photo is turned away because I straighten it on the phone, I did not remember that it could not be uploaded. Greetings.

Most welcome Merita. My photos are generally in the ratio 4:3 (horizontal to vertical ratio), or 3:4 (vertical to horizontal ratio). The original file sizes are quite large. I generally resize the megabytes size files to relatively small ones --- around 180 to 200 kilobyte, with pixel dimensions roughly 1024 x 768 or 768 x 1024. After uploading these small files to orchidboard, the orchidboard software then does some processing - resulting in similar pixel dimensions, but the file size becomes 80 kilobyte or so. A reduction in quality occurs.

Even though not always noticeable - an orchid flower image of rough size 1024 x 768 pixels AFTER it goes through the orchidboard processing is generally less sharp than the same dimension image (around 1024 x 768 pixel) before upload to orchidboard.

I personally don't mind the extra compression that the orchidboard software does to the uploaded files. Merely saying that the flower images uploaded by orchidboard users are likely to be much more spectacular and sharp
(prior to upload) than what results after the upload. It's the extra processing that the orchidboard software does that reduces the image quality.

That is - a 200 kb 1024 x 768 pixel image before upload versus a 80 kb 1024 x 768 pixel image that results after the upload (due to compression done automatically by orchidboard software).

Also - the reason why I keep referring to dimensions like 1024 x 768 pixels is that the orchidboard resizing software will resize automatically large images down to dimensions of roughly these dimensions ---- in general that is.