I have Six Phals in flower just now!

[RosieC]

Thanks everyone

My living room is just wonderful at the momment. I also have a phrag with two flowers (and long tails) a Paph Pinocchio with two flowers, a Den Phal hybrid and a Restrepia all in flower in my living room. I was going to show pics of some of those seperately, this is just the Phals.

[Call_Me_Bob]

Originally Posted by RosieC

Thanks D.

I just don't know what it is about the one with 29 blooms. It has masses every time it blooms and it's also a big big plant (16 big leaves). It was just a standard size Phal when I bought it and the one I bought at the same time is far far smaller.

I repotted spring 2009 and should have put it in a bigger pot, I only just squeezed it back in the 12cm pot it had come in. I then intended to pot it up to 13cm pot but didn't get arround to it then realised I had left it so late it was opening flowers again... so now there is virtually no medium in the pot, just as MASS of roots.

how do you get so many leaves?? mine lose their bottoms leaves from time to time. usually after growing a new onw

[marydaniellesantos]

Oh wow! They really are lovely, and so many blooms! They must be very happy!!!

[Undergrounder]

Wow congrats Rosie! Those are flowering great!

[RosieC]

Thanks everyone!

Originally Posted by help

how do you get so many leaves?? mine lose their bottoms leaves from time to time. usually after growing a new onw

I'm not sure, there must be something in my culture but I don't know what it is. I generally don't get leaf loss on any of them, except very ocasionally, and on all of them leaf loss is a lot slower then leaf growth.

The exception of course is the ones I almost killed with poor quality medium, but this one luckly missed that repotting, and the the others are now recovering and gaining leaves again.

[Call_Me_Bob]

hm thats weird

[peeweelovesbooks]

Great growing! Lovely sprays of white. I like that.

[Leisurely]

Rosie those are very impressive looking. Do Phals bloom throughout the year in the UK due to the cooler temps there?

[RosieC]

Thanks Jerry,

Usually they are just in the spring, but (I think) I kept them too cold over the autum/winter and so rather than spiking then they just went dormant. Then as spring came round and it started warming up again they started spiking (and also going crazy on root and leaf growth at the same time). The spikes then took several weeks to develop, giving me summer flowers rather than spring flowers.

I was actually really worried in the early spring as I had NO spikes and thought I was going to get no flowers this year.

[Lagoon]

Beautiful phals and beautiful photos!