Project 2021: Phalaenopsis deliciosa - Page 17 - Orchid Board

tmoney · #**161** 08-28-2021, 04:04 AM

they look good sade....im starting to think that with all of our orchids we are having great results with foliage growth but our flowering’s are not doing so hot. hopefully this winter we get better results with the phals, but on your first blooms with this you have more than one open flower....our always dropped immediately before the next one opened. and the others that have flowered for us have put on only a few blooms and they don’t seem to last nearly as long as they did when we bought them in flower from the nursery. starting to wonder what we could improve on to promote better blooms....

SADE2020 · #**162** 08-28-2021, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by tmoney

they look good sade....im starting to think that with all of our orchids we are having great results with foliage growth but our flowering’s are not doing so hot. hopefully this winter we get better results with the phals, but on your first blooms with this you have more than one open flower....our always dropped immediately before the next one opened. and the others that have flowered for us have put on only a few blooms and they don’t seem to last nearly as long as they did when we bought them in flower from the nursery. starting to wonder what we could improve on to promote better blooms....

I am sorry to hear that.
Was you who mentioned the same with the Doritis as well?

Mr.Fakename · #**163** 08-28-2021, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by tmoney

they look good sade....im starting to think that with all of our orchids we are having great results with foliage growth but our flowering’s are not doing so hot. hopefully this winter we get better results with the phals, but on your first blooms with this you have more than one open flower....our always dropped immediately before the next one opened. and the others that have flowered for us have put on only a few blooms and they don’t seem to last nearly as long as they did when we bought them in flower from the nursery. starting to wonder what we could improve on to promote better blooms....

Sounds like textbook example of low humidity and/or underwatering.
In Phal, flowers are the first things to go if the plant feels like it's too dry. They tend to get used to it, but it can take a few years of below average blooms.

How high is your RH?

SADE2020 · #**164** 08-28-2021, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr.Fakename

Sounds like textbook example of low humidity and/or underwatering.
In Phal, flowers are the first things to go if the plant feels like it's too dry. They tend to get used to it, but it can take a few years of below average blooms.

How high is your RH?

Or the opposite as well, lots of water and flowers and flowers dropping or buds undeveloped

But some thing is going on!

tmoney · #**165** 08-29-2021, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr.Fakename

Sounds like textbook example of low humidity and/or underwatering.
In Phal, flowers are the first things to go if the plant feels like it's too dry. They tend to get used to it, but it can take a few years of below average blooms.

How high is your RH?

hey fakename, thanks for the suggestion. it is possible we underwater i suppose. our schedule is pretty consistent for all of them, every week, sit in their pot filled to brim for about 15 minutes. i was spraying aerials and top of mix for awhile, but have since stopped on all but the couple oncidiums, our epid, and the maxillaria. reason was that after our 2 week vaca this summer our plant sitter never sprayed and things looked amazing when we returned so i figured the hell with it.

honestly don’t know what humidity is at unless i look at the weather. we leave the house always pretty open, Mediterranean style, so it pretty close to ambient i assume. to tell a secret, my humidity gauge for the terrarium broke months ago and i never replaced that either....trying to go on feels... we are in nrw germany, and it feels like 100% humid all the time. it’s rainy and gloomy like no other here if you’ve never been. think portland

edit, just checked weather and it’s raining again today with 92% rh. been this way all week, and our doors and windows will all be open, so prolly more like 80 something inside .

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Originally Posted by SADE2020

I am sorry to hear that.
Was you who mentioned the same with the Doritis as well?

yup, same with the doritos

estación seca · #**166** 08-29-2021, 12:30 AM

This was mine on arrival, May 13 of this year:

Phalaenopsis_deliciosa_Marlows_Orchids_20210513_seca.jpg

Here is mine today after a few weeks of neglect. It did get a spray with tap water every morning. The longest leaf you see here was the small emergent leaf on May 13.

Phalaenopsis_deliciosa_20210828_seca.jpg

Roberta · #**167** 08-29-2021, 12:40 AM

Link to the attachment is bad...

I found that I didn't even have to do the rotation thing... I use Ifanview, but GIMP should work too... instead of messing with the rotation, do a <save as> - I save as the same name, but the computer sees it as a replacement and apparently resets the orientation metadata so that it comes out correct.

estación seca · #**168** 08-29-2021, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Roberta

Link to the attachment is bad...

I found that I didn't even have to do the rotation thing... I use Ifanview, but GIMP should work too... instead of messing with the rotation, do a <save as> - I save as the same name, but the computer sees it as a replacement and apparently resets the orientation metadata so that it comes out correct.

I initially used the default Gnome image viewer, and it didn't work. Then tried Gimp. I kept trying and it worked. I think the problem may have been the malrotated image was in the OB server cache and kept writing over the newer image. I waited a while before uploading the final image.

Roberta · #**169** 08-29-2021, 12:46 AM

It worked! And the plant looks great.

tmoney · #**170** 08-30-2021, 01:20 AM

looks great es! nice improvement. the one we got in flower has finished and i chopped the spikes yesterday. it has a couple new root nubs starting from the base, so i decided it was a good time to relegate it to the terrarium. i had a vacancy from something that died so, in it went. but at least the new leaf was/is still growing...

the one in s/h is slowly putting on a new leaf as well, but honestly that leaf is looking a bit yellow and sad. ill post an update of that one if warranted