Cattleya loddigesii '#6'

[Rosim_in_BR]

This is in flower now, or was... I'm afraid I made a mess earlier. While I was photographing it I dropped the pot and the flowers almost broke off. They are severely hurt now... my disastrous hand and me!
This is just regular as to the color or form, but what I like in it are the dark purple lines in the middle of the segments. Makes it very singular.

[Dorothy]

Beautiful!
Love that frilly lip and the delicate color

[cb977]

Another beauty

[Frdemetr]

Hi Mauro,
I think you are the third brazilian in this board! You have 2000 orchids, I'm envy! I have ~150 plants, mainly Stanhopeas and Bifrenarias, but also rupiculous Laelias, Cattleyas, Coelogynes and "others". Unfortunately you joined us after the OB Project 4 time, I'm the only brazilian! May be you can join us yet, I received my Aerangis today! Are you near S. Paulo (southeastern Brazil just under Tropic of Capricorn)? Your lodiggesii looks very nice for me, congrats!
Um abraço e Bem Vindo à Bordo!

[smweaver]

That's a beautiful flower, Rosim. And don't feel alone about dropping your plant. Last year I decided to take some close-up photos of a Cycnoches hybrid that had taken me three years to grow to blooming size. Apparently I got a little too close to the blooms with the camera. When I pulled the camera away after the photo was taken, one of the side petals (sepals?) fell off! I had hit the flower with the camera without even realizing the damage that I was doing. It was quite humbling--and it would have been embarassing too if there had been any witnesses in attendance other than my dog. Congratulations on your flowering--and welcome to the board.

Steve

[Rosim_in_BR]

Hi, Frederico!
I have joined just a few days ago and really could not take the time to read everything there is on the site. I can see that there is a huge amount of info. I am a bit confused about the OB Project you cite. Is it a contest? If I can be of any help for the Project you can count me on.
Nice knowing you like Stanhopeas and Bifrenarias. I like them too, although I have just a few of them. My grh is located in Itatiba-SP, and that's why I give the tropic of Capricorn as a guide. I live in Santo Andre and Itatiba, I mean I keep going back and forth between these two cities.
Obrigado pelas boas vindas. Está sendo muito legal.
Mauro

[Tindomul]

Very beautiful! I once droped my camera, tripod and all onto my Phalaenopsis. I was very angry. But the plant has recovered. ANd then there was the time I droped a Phalaenopsis. It fell 6 feet, as I was holding it above my head to look under it. It survived too. But the worst is when my girlfriends baby cousin decided to have a fit and smashed the Phalaenopsis I gave to her as a gift on to the floor. That did not survive.

[Rosim_in_BR]

Good to know that I am not alone in this!!

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9

Very beautiful! I once droped my camera, tripod and all onto my Phalaenopsis. I was very angry. But the plant has recovered. ANd then there was the time I droped a Phalaenopsis. It fell 6 feet, as I was holding it above my head to look under it. It survived too. But the worst is when my girlfriends baby cousin decided to have a fit and smashed the Phalaenopsis I gave to her as a gift on to the floor. That did not survive.

Tindo, I might be able to top that. Picture number 7 in calendar pics is of Phal Pink Twilight. Before I became bored with black backgrounds I had placed some black flock cloth behind this spike and was photographing it. This image is the first one I took. I was rearranging the plant for better composition when the cloth and the weight that was holding it came crashing down breaking off the spike! The plant survived till last year when it seccumbed to a hail storm. Maybe we should start a thread where we can all share our foux pas?

[Tindomul]

LOl. Perhaps we should. I'll go ahead and do so. The one that was killed by the kid was in full spike as well. I had bought it from the NY International Orchid Show this past April.