Lots of Phals, Including one I think might be special...

[Rowangreen]

I've just bought 30 phal seedlings on eBay! Some I'll keep, some to sell on. It's been a very tense wait for them to arrive! Especially today: according to tracking they were loaded into a van about 5 this morning, but they didn't arrive till about 4pm! I haven't fully unpacked them yet (just taken their outer newspaper wraps off), but it looks like they've arrived in amazingly good condition. A couple of bent leaves and maybe a bit of cold damage on a few, but most seem in perfect health, and they all look like they will be fine!

Anyway... they are mixed hybrids and species (all labelled... I'll do the list later!). There's several were on my wish list. But one in particular I spotted as something unusual in the auction group shots...

First pic is all the plants.

Then there's my 'special': roots (with a drop of water on them to show the difference between dryish and wet) and two pics, one with flash and one without.

[reliablefool]

I don't care what it is...give me that special one! :P Never seen a phal with coloring like that...beautiful.

[Rowangreen]

It's a Sin-Yuan Golden Beauty: I believe they often do have a reddish cast to the leaves, but I've not been able to find anything matching this. Bodens have a plant on their 'stem propagations' page with similar leaves, but the roots on that look more normal.

[Rowangreen]

Here's the list...

Flores summer (floresensis rofino x sumatrana)
5 x amboinensis (white) x sumatrana Palawan island
bellina
3 x Bronze Maiden ( mannii x schilleriana)
2 x lueddemanniana
3 x tetraspis x lueddemanniana 'red Taiwan'
3 x Essence Yuhmei (floresensis x violacea)
David Lim (amboinensis white x gigantea)
amboinensis
Kenneth Schubert x Phal. hieroglyphica
2 x floresensis rofino x Princess Kaiulani flava
2 x Man Force (floresensis x mannii)
2 x mariae
Kuntratri Rarashati x lindenii
Penang girl (violacea x venosa)
Sin-Yuan Golden Beauty

[Phal-lover]

I recently got a Phal with color similar to that. It had been sitting in a bucket of water for over three weeks, and is now changing back to green. This probably isn't the case with your little beauty, but I thought I'd share the possibility.

[Rowangreen]

Interesting! Have you got a picture of yours?

[Leafmite]

Sometimes when they get high light, they get pretty red. I had my mini-phal in too high of light for the summer and it was pretty red. The red roots, though, are something I have never seen in red before. Pretty cool.
I have heard that cooler weather and high sun are two factors that can bring out the red in the leaves.
Still, you never know!

[Rowangreen]

I think it's the same pigment phals get in light, but I don't think that's all it is. For one thing the roots are red even under the medium! The tips of the roots do look greener, so I guess I'll have to wait and see if new growth turns red or stays green.

[WhiteRabbit]

I have noid Phal that has become quite red this autumn. I haven't moved it, but the window it's in gets mire light this time of year. And definitely gets cool temps now... Doesn't have the red roots, however - but the newest root nub is reddish ...

[Rowangreen]

I have a noid that gets very pink root tips: I think it's fairly normal? This one the tips still have some of the reddish colour, just greener compared to the rest!

I'm thinking I might write to some of the big phal growers if I find the time and see what they make of it. That's unless it decides to turn green the next couple of weeks... but I doubt it somehow!