I'm not sure of the ids, but there are noid phals, one of which blooms every spring, one of which bloomed a couple of years but each leaf is the same size so I guess it's happy despite not blooming? The leaves are small but very nicely shaped, very different conformation from the phal which blooms reliably but iirc the blooms look the same. It looks happy but it doesn't bloom anymore, I think that might be due to a light I can't turn off. I don't control the building
All the phals I remember have white flowers or at least at successive bloomings after the one the store presented they were much paler to white but well formed. I'm pretty sure they had pinks or yellows variously but no fragrant phals. And they weren't the dyed ones either, I think those colors look hideous on flowers and I hate glofish colors on live fish also. Is that a common experience (blooming with pale to white colors, not hating glo-tones on living things)?
There are what I think are mini cymbidiums, and they are just now starting to grow pbulbs with a nice squat, round base and the leaves are becoming more ovate and it overall just looks juicier which makes me hope it's getting ready to bloom. There are more leaves down in the centers waiting to rise than I've seen before, it has been producing about five leaves, now it looks like they will be putting out six this year. We have some temps in the 40s F in the winter, so hopefully that's cool enough to trigger them to bloom.
There's a noid Vanda, one problem I have is that if a package or a tag ever ends up loose someone will pick it up and throw it away. It has four leaves and four roots, up from two leaves and two roots as a 2" Better-gro bag orchid, from Lowe's I think, which of course I couldn't inspect the roots before purchase. They were mostly rotted. It's been probably three years since purchase and once it grew a couple of nice but still small leaves it has just elongated two of its four roots, and not grown any more roots or leaves for at least the past year, it just grows two of its roots longer and longer so it's got a span 36 inches root-tip to root-tip and it frustrates me. There's a little swelling on the stem where I think a root is about to emerge but it moves so friggin' slow, grrr!
The most recent are what I thought was listed as a Catt. but the tag gave Bc. and I was a bit disappointed that it was an intergeneric when I thought it was genus, but my mom wouldn't be that concerned about a detail like that I don't think so I just went ahead and mounted it. It was trying to divide itself so I went ahead and cracked the rhizome, and ever since Mother's Day I've been anxious to see new roots, because it almost instantly shed all its roots when I unpotted it (Yes, they did have lots of nice, active tips, they didn't arrive mostly rotted). Maybe 2-3" left per division and today I finally decided to add a bit more sphagnum underneath, and I saw a brand-new root on the newest growth, which I didn't see on my first examination this morning!!!! I went ahead and put a bit more sphagnum underneath, I went very sparsely with the sphag on initial mounting and I want to make sure it has more than a few minutes worth of moisture and that towards the cork is the darkest direction. The other division hasn't shown a new root yet, although the newest growth is further along in its development. Its new growth is lifting up from the mount so the spot where roots would grow is basically in open air. I stuffed a clump of sphagnum under there and I'm hoping for the best
She also has a Brassavola nodosa which has a new root just about to hit the cork and the new growths look like they're starting spikes, unless that's just the pointy tip of the sheath and it just looks all juicy and plump and tall because it's not dry yet? With small plants I know not to necessarily expect blooms the same year or even necessarily the year after. I do hope for quick blooming though
The Bc. and Brass. came from Waldor and they were packaged well with no broken structures and the roots were in decent shape but they were a little too moist for my taste - and quite a few roots were already gone on arrival. All of my orchids have come from Hausermann or Andy's.
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