Collection of NOIDS!

[Stray59]

ordphien:
Beautiful plants! Really nice oncidiums, I especially like the mini - - and they all look very happy.
I am also interested in where you got the blue phalae. I don't know if the photo is showing it's true color, but I would definitely call the orc in the photo blue - and I agree, it looks really close to violacea species form.
Welcome to the Board by the way - what a great way to say "Hi".....
Steve

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Wrebbitrocks

dang it, i wrote a good amount to explain this but i pressed backspace by accident and its all gone

anyways, looking at the pots i think the first 3 are from matsui. the paph has culture similar to phalaenopsis. the next 2 are oncidiums both will fit to the intergeneric culture. and phals well theyre phals and will grow almost anywhere. read up on them since they have very beasic culture.

the blue one i might say is slightly different because of the species used to get "blue" but idk, i would researcg it. its lovely btw and im kinda envious as i want a blue phal. whered you get this one at again?

From matsui?
The phals I'm not worried as much about... I have several phals in my house...
About two years ago someone gave me an out of bloom phal, with a tag that said amabillis... And I promised myself that if I coukd get it to bloom again I could go buy some more phals...
Last year it threw up a spike and i rejoiced by buying more phals...
Now I know phals can thrive and bloom in my house...
Thats also my story of how i got into orchids...
The oncidiums, brassia, and paph were me feeling confident enough in basic phal care to brave some NOIDs...

The oncidiums I showed here are the two that seem dehydrated but I have hope that the new growth will have adapted better to my house...
My sharry baby hasnt changed at all since i got it... zero growth worries me...
and my brassia... The oldest bulb became severly wrinkled, a fattening growth became weak thin and floppy and new growth stalled....
Over all psuedo bulbs and me are not getting on....
and I'm rambling... sorry...

I'snt it great? I had to have it....
It was $10 at my local nursery. They have a small green house with a orchid section in it.
The lady who runs it gets mainly phals in. They always have a small section of mini phals... which is where this beauty was..

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Rowangreen

The first one is a Maudiae type paph. Because they are seed grown and every one slightly different and there are a lot of similar crosses you are not going to get closer than that without a label.

The oncidiums: definitely lots of oncidium in them!

Phals: mostly commercial hybrids, standard care.

The blue phal is likely to be Purple Martin, Kenneth Schubert or a related cross. I've found it quite easy to give my Purple Martin oedema (grrr - lost a spike to it), so don't get it cold after it's been watered! They have violacea in them. Does yours smell good? Mine smells amazing, though I only got to enjoy one flower before one of my cats knocked it off and destroyed the second spike! Hoping I'll soon have spike mark 3 and more luck with it! LOL

Perfect! This little paph has me looking at some others...

Do they? They looked like oncidiums to me but then I found out alot of orchids look like oncidiums to this newb...

Whats oedema????
No fragrance... sadly

Good Luck!

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

Nice!

Thanks!

[Wrebbitrocks]

oedema are cold blisters for orchids mainly phals. and its ok im not too good at the oncidium family either. they like it on the cool moist side which is hard to do in arizona its just trial and error. whatever survives, buy more of. whatever doesnt try once more and if it didnt work, move on. well unless you actually want it which in that case you could provide it with everything it wants and youll be happy. but i like trouble free oh and matsui is the largest grower of orchids here. their pots look like that. i have a paph from them and the name is (makuli-curtisii)-maudieae x maudieae 'napa valley' hcc/aos x sib. and ive seen alot of them with that name and they all look different. it most likely fits the bill for yours. the white oncidium is either twinkle or tsiku marguerite but the latter has pinkish on them and yours look very white. again cultural differences will cause different colours so who knows. and the last oncidium looks like one of the miltonidium sunsets (hawaiian, pacific, pupukea, rosy) of which i always see also and have the same smell, lol vanilla>lavender>catpiss

hmmm, i should have you buy me a blue one and ship it over! jp lol orchid addict talking here

[Orquidia]

Nice collection.

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Stray59

ordphien:
Beautiful plants! Really nice oncidiums, I especially like the mini - - and they all look very happy.
I am also interested in where you got the blue phalae. I don't know if the photo is showing it's true color, but I would definitely call the orc in the photo blue - and I agree, it looks really close to violacea species form.
Welcome to the Board by the way - what a great way to say "Hi".....
Steve

I love the mini.... unforunately I can't take credit for how healthy the plants are... They cam from the store that way lol...
I hope they do even better under my care...
Actually its more blue in person but not by much.... Exciting to know I found a blue phal... now I wish I could find some equestris or equestris hybrids locally...

Hi! Thank you... I hope I learn alot here...

[Ordphien]

Originally Posted by Orquidia

Nice collection.

Thank you!

[GardenTheater]

Very nice collection. I love the blue Phal too.

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by Ordphien

This is my new paph.
It hasnt changed much since I bought it a few months ago.
But it hasn't sulked either so I'm assuming it's happy enough.

This kind of paph can stay in bloom for up to three months, one of the things I love about these guys.
Unfortunately though, there are so many hybrids that look almost the same, you basically cannot find the name unless you have it already. Paphs are also mostly seed grown, so that adds to the problem of identification unless you have a name tag.

Just call it Maudiae Alba, which is a generic name for this kind of paph.