Two new Minis! :)

[NYCorchidman]

So I gave in to my weakness (or to the atractiveness of the pretty flowers) when I saw cute little phals at Trader Joe's last night.

There are always a few mini, but last night, I saw lots and lots of truly miniature phals. I just wanted a closer look. Most looked bad with many of the buds/flowers dropped or dried up.
Some did look good. I initially picked four, one orange (never seen this color on phals before) mini, one equestris hybrid, and two that I ended up buying!
The other two I didn't buy, I put them down because they had some brown spots on the leaves and flowers.
I hope to see the healthier versions of the same color soon so I can have them too!

The light pink one is actually much darker in person, quite small but flowers are big (3 in across). I have a similar one bought at TJ last month but this one is much darker and has more flowers.
The super mini is Zuma's Pixie. So cute with tiny red purple flowers on two delicate spikes.

The pink one came in very small plastic pot that is again housed inside a green plastic pot. The potting media looks really bad, dark and mushy. hmmm

Zuma's Pixie has perfect roots with clean media that was super dry, so I just gave it a good watering.

I will have to say buy to one or two large phals so I can stack up some more of these little cuties.

[Paul Mc]

Very nice!!!! Good finds!

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely

[Im Just Saying]

Pretty blooms and fat roots to boot!

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by Paul Mc

Very nice!!!! Good finds!

Indeed, isn't it?
I love stopping by that store and leaving with something pretty like these.
and such great price, too!!!

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by Im Just Saying

Pretty blooms and fat roots to boot!

Those fat roots sure do look healthy at a first glance, but they all have dead black tips.
I need to change the media soon as they look pretty bad. I'm just not very comfortable messing with the roots in fear of bud blast.

Kind of puzzled...

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

Lovely

I wish the pictures came out better. These are really cute and lovely!

[The Mutant]

Oooh, you have a Zuma's Pixie too? I have its older sister here and it's a BIG Phal. I thought I would get something like the one you have, not the mother of all Zuma's Pixies.

Mine is growing really well, but it's so big and, well, ugly (with roots pointing in every direction, impossible to get down into the medium) so I don't know if I'll keep it or not. I'll keep thinking during the winter and I'll see if I'll try to find a new home for it in spring or not.

Your Pixie is a darling though.

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by The Mutant

Oooh, you have a Zuma's Pixie too? I have its older sister here and it's a BIG Phal. I thought I would get something like the one you have, not the mother of all Zuma's Pixies.

Mine is growing really well, but it's so big and, well, ugly (with roots pointing in every direction, impossible to get down into the medium) so I don't know if I'll keep it or not. I'll keep thinking during the winter and I'll see if I'll try to find a new home for it in spring or not.

Your Pixie is a darling though.

Yeah, I know what you mean about those large standard sized phals. I try to avoid them as they take up so much space with their huge leaves spreading all over and their crazy roots also going all over the place, (and if you don't check them often, they always stick to something nearby).
They do have large impressive flowers, which makes it hard to avoid them.

My little Zuma's Pixie is so small, but very cute. love the color too, a bit darker version of queen beer.

[NYCorchidman]

a better picture of Zuma's Pixie in the day light.