Project Phoenix

[Akhenaten]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

Beautiful colors. :

Thank you But it's not as transparent as I thought.

Swampy tropics of the cold Andes in my refrigerator

[WaterWitchin]

Ooooh... really like the colors and shape of the reddish one! The little semi-transparent white ones... about the size of a gnat?

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Akhenaten

Blooming of new Lepanthes tsubotae :rest17:

Spectacular little flowers, wonderfully photographed!

[DirtyCoconuts]

i agree- did you get a new lens or camera? these are a cut above!!!

[Akhenaten]

WaterWitchin, Roberta, DirtyCoconuts, thank you so much.
I use Xiaomi POCO phone and supermacro in it.

[Akhenaten]

I had an overhaul scheduled for January, a small one, of the orchid placement system. As a result, there was space for movement on the balcony and space on the wall to accommodate the new 15-25 pots in the vertical gardening modules.

In October 2021



Now



I managed to allocate a whole shelf for blocks and make a huge horizontal block. Wrapped the entire shelf in hygrolon. Water flowing from the pots and from the blocks impregnates the hygrolon, it increases the humidity. If roots grow to it, they will be happy





And a semi-wick for B. polliculosum. It also gave out flower stalks, but not my achievement A completely new plant, I bought it in December 2021.



And this is a giant curtain, supposedly Sophronitis brevipedunculata, but the tops look a lot like S. coccinea.
This is his bald side:



I put him on a horizontal block, let him crawl Gave him freedom, light, food

And hairy side



And here it looks like Angraecum aloifolium is up to something



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And now review from November 2021. Today 10 of February 2022, -38C (-36,4F) outside.

C.aclandie albescens Cocobongo, seedling. Leaves 4-5 cm. Bulbs 1-2 cm. An adult has 8-10 centimeters. And the leaves are 6-7 centimeters.
Came like this:



Removed from previous planting in shallow bark. Planted on a bare cork. The brightest light, a single morning daily spraying and yes, you still need to be warm. Fertilizer once a week. A month has passed. New growth.



Due to childhood, without a bud, and from that, immediately rapid growth of the roots.





Classic Aclandian behavior. Growth, minus flowering, roots. As soon as the leaf is unfolded, it will immediately give out new growth, probably.


Another, correct flower in matamorosii



And a couple of close-up photos, through the glass
L. telipogoniflora






Lepanthes golondrina. The buds are quite large, not smaller than those of telipogoniflora. The color promises to be wine, the shape is an equilateral triangle.







Lepanthes golondrina one of the large-flowered lepanthes, with a unique, as usual for lepanthes, flower architecture.









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Lepanthes teretipetala



Lepanthes sp. mini Red. Flower has 2-3 mm. But very effective



Lepanthes tsubotae




My fridge started charging cutbatrson candles on the hygrolon tree for Christmas.
"The Christmas trees are set ablaze
With gold-gilt fire in the woods..."
Osip Mandelstam







month later






As it turns out, Utricularia graminifolia is a vicious invader of swampy, brightly lit lowlands. And beautiful. I like this Utricularia more than moss. And then it bloomed. Massively. Blooms a second time. But only today considered the color. The flowers are absolutely fantastic in shape and color: a blue rounded smooth mantle, on it is a white puff with bright purple veins in folds, behind it is a white kanmuri with purple straight strokes.








Finally I waited for the white swallow One of my three Trisetella hojeri gave out a single bud. But the form is reference









Size is 6 cm (2'')


Hybride Sophronitis acuensis x Laelia milleri










My Sophronitis pygmea, as if from Floralia, flourished in torment



First so



Then so



finally okay



Prepares another bud. Another pygmy is preparing to bloom.

[Roberta]

Ah, room for more orchids! You have done an amazing job of "packing" to optimize space!

A question about Bulbophyllum polliculosum... Mine is in its second year in my possession. The culture notes that I received with the plant indicate that it should receive much less water, and no fertilizer, during its dormant (leafless) period. Mine gets some water, but less, and no fertilizer, in winter. Less severe than the "instructions" indicate but a bit of variation. It seems to be doing well - I have not had rot issues, I am hoping for it to rebloom. Does your arrangement allow for managing the leafless dormant period versus its growing time?

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Everything is growing so well! The Den. cuthbertsonii are amazing. They love their refrigerator.

[Akhenaten]

Originally Posted by Roberta

Does your arrangement allow for managing the leafless dormant period versus its growing time?

Thank you so much!
My last polliculesum died in absolutely dry dormant. I try to grow in hemi-wick technique grow. But hygrolon moist only twice per week, don't always. I try and will see.

[Roberta]

I have also found that "dry" needs to be tempered for most orchids. I do "drier" not "dry" except for the Catasetinae... and kill a lot fewer orchids that way, and they bloom (In places where the ones that get "dry rest" live, most get dew even if they don't get rain. they don't stay seriously dry for very long... I learned that the hard way)

[nemesis]

GOOD-NESS!!!! this is incredible, and the photos are to die for!!!