My plants arrived from Hausermann's today and look great. New root growth on the amesiella and evidence that it has bloomed before (dried spike) and the den. laevifolium has a new growth, maturing growth, and two old growths with buds (I think). Very excited!

Ugh, that photo is dark...I'll have to take some more later on.

Reliable did you get a shipping notification? I am with Ashley and ordered mine almost a week ago from Hausermann and have gotten no shipping info. I may need to contact them.

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Actually I ordered Tuesday I'm just excited! I know Hasuermann has great plants I can't wait :)

Hausermann's does not send out shipping notification. They have their explanation of when they ship on their faq page. So if you ordered Tuesday, and are on the west coast, they will not ship until Monday.

I received an email when they shipped it out. I ordered on the 4th and received an email saying it was shipped out on the 6th.

I just made my pre-order for the MOS show. They had both plants and I will get a discount and no shipping! Woot!

Hmmmm. I ordered on the third, but they do say that they ship to closer places later in the week. It could still come tomorrow. If not, it'll be here next week hopefully. I know it'll get here. I'm just excited.

I got a shipping notification when I have ordered from them in the past.

Here's my little guy! Can't wait to get home and see him! Attachment 111922

I hope you don't mind, I am going to try a similar method. I had never heard of kool-logs until I read your post. I think I am going to get some and try mine in ecoweb or coco husk instead of the moss.



I love that the logs have a water reservoir. A bonus is they are only one state over from me! I am really interested in seeing how well a cooler loving orchid grows on them...might open up a lot of opportunities for me.

Ok so I am going to wait to order. It has turned cold here in the last few days and it say's it will be into the 30's at night till at least Wed. So I believe it will be better for me to see how the end of next week will look.

I was thinking of ordering from J&L also and I'm thinking of getting Leptotes bicolor as my second plant, I mean for the project.

I have a den laevifolium. Love it, the flowers last for months.

I don't mind at all, someone else doing the project has already mentioned using a Kool-Log, and it will be interesting to see how the plants respond. Kool-Logs are supposed to be great for any orchid that likes cooler conditions and either likes to be constantly wet, or has distinct wet/dry periods. There are a lot of orchids that I'm excited to try on them, but currently I only have the Amesiella and a Den. cuthbertsonii on one that is hanging in my orchidarium. If it helps, the one in the picture I posted is the medium size.

The cool log is an excellent alternative to potting or mounting this plant. I have mine growing in an aircone pot in sphagnum moss. I did have it growing in bark, but my conditions are low humidity and it did not get enough moisture. I transferred it to moss and now, a small new leaf is starting to grow.

I am growing this like a Phalaenopis.

I ordered mine Friday and am waiting.
Joann

I ordered mine last week from Clown Alley. I ended up getting the four plants from the final polls and a few more. Didn't get the walkeriana because I just acquired a baggy baby walkeriana semi-alba 'Carmela' last fall. Picking orchids to purchase is very time consuming but I do enjoy it as I learn a whole lot of information from the process. I'll post photos when they get here.

Yay, my order shipped today! Hopefully it'll arrive by the end of the week. My other order with the Podangis for that subproject arrives tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be home from the airport before the delivery man comes!

I just brought mine home from the OS meeting...from Windswept in Time Orchids.

hmmmmm.
i cant seem to find it in canada but i'll look for it at the show! wish me luck!

If you know the vendors that will be at the show, you can call them and ask them if they have the orchid and if they would be willing to bring it to the show for you.

I got home from the airport (off visiting my mother in France) mid afternoon and within an hour BOTH my orders arrived!! :) It felt like Christmas to be unwrapping so many orchids!

My Amesiella is gorgeous and has a basal keiki! Traveling with it was Gastrochilus dasypogon and Phal Little Sister (maculata x equestris) which has 2 spikes.This was my first order from Elsner, and in impressed with the quality and speed of delivery (24h from Germany to netherlands, with other Germany growers it takes much longer)

I'll post my other order in the Podangis project thread. That one had 4 TCs....

I love getting those boxes of orchids in the mail, too...so addicting....

Isn't it wonderful that Camille, can hop on a plane to visit her mother in France? That sounds SO cosmopolitan!

I also enjoy the thrill of receiving box(es) of orchids. Unfortunately, I REALLY need to stop having Christmas every week. I'm running out of space!

Me too.. I'm also running out of excuses to tell the "boss" as to why this is different than the others that I have already sitting and growing in my makeshift greenhouse area. :biggrin:

Yeah, I've been told that in 23 days (I'm retiring), I'll be on an orchid diet! I'd rather lose weight...

That's a benefit of living in Europe, and particularly in tiny Netherlands (which is only twice the size of Massachusetts). Amsterdam is a 60-80min flight from Lyon, in France. From Amsterdam I can fly to any of maybe a dozen different countries in less than 2 hours flight time. Whereas in the US you can't even cross the country in that time...

And yup, I love getting boxes of orchids! Too bad I don't get them often enough. And I'm getting to the point where installing a second shelving unit is necessary. Which means buying more orchids to fill it! Not sure my boyfriend will agree with it...

Does anyone know in general how long these little lovelies usually take from start of spike to bloom?

Yes I would like to know as well and general culture tips from you pros, I have never grown one.
Mine arrived yesterday from Marble Branch Farms and looks very nice. I may leave it in the pot since it is in a nice bark mix in a 3" pot, Marble Branch says that it is near blooming size. It traveled with a Brassocattleya Yellow Bird.
I also received a RBY. Everything Nice 'Showtime" Free!!
So Excited!. I will post pictures later...

I'm not sure if I'll keep mine mounted, but the roots are so long that I don't know how I'd get them into a pot...

Do you have a spike on yours?

I think so...
I don't know if I should be concerned about the brown areas on it, any thoughts?

That would concern me too. Makes me think the spike is going to blast. I had one blast on my Phal Violacea after it was shipped to me. :( I hope it doesn't. I'd love to see your flowers! Maybe it's just a little dirt or something.

So I looked up some culture notes and found conflicting info. What I think I will do is grow in the pot it came in, keep it near my humidifier in front of my east window where it will get medium light, and it will be 70-78 degrees F. Water like my Draculas with only rainwater every 3 days. I have a fan going 24/7 in this area.

Just received the little cola and its companions. The cola looks okay but the shredded newspaper they used to wrap on top of the media was very moisted. I unpotted a few just to worried more. I saw brown mushy roots brown root nub and brown color at the base. I am at work and didn't have time to check every single plant but I did remove all of the shredded newspaper to make sure the roots get some fresh air. :(

I have to decide between keeping it mounted and potting it in LECA and a small basket pot or Vanda basket. I don't really like disturbing the roots but they are so much easier to take care of in a pot/Vanda basket. I will probably think about it another day. Just potted up the new Angraecum seedling from moss to lava rock and need a break from the stress of potting Angraecoids.

They all look good except that one that has black on the roots and by the base. I would cut that off and place a decent amount of alcohol in that area.

I have my old one in a 3" basket with VERY loose bark/sponge rock/charcoal mix with a layer of sphagnum moss on top. It gets watered every day (sometimes twice a day) and is on the east side of my wet wall. It gets filtered morning sun only to about 10am and then open shade for the rest of the day. It could probably take a bit more sun, and seems to be working on a spike.

The temps in my greenhouse right now are lows in the mid 60s at night and reaching into the low 80s for about 3 hours a day.

I do not put a direct fan on the wet wall to keep humidity up, however I have two fans up top, an exhaust fan, and a swamp cooler that blows pretty hard.

Here is a photo showing where it is located. I've been growing it for a year and can tell you that it needs high humidity (with moderate air movement) and no direct sun. Direct sun causes leaf burn very quickly (I lost a leaf almost immediately last year). It does grow slowly so you don't want to lose leaves.

Got mine Tuesday! They also gave me a Den. Silver King as a bonus plant!



I was thinking about how to being to mount the monticola, when I saw this. Is that a spike maybe?? I really hope so! Although, it seems so small to have a spike already. Here is a picture if all three plants also.

Sorry AUgrower but that little nubbin pointing up is a root. It is a god sign, the plant wants to grow.

I looked at mine and it is plastered to the mount so I will leave it on there.

Ha ha yea, I had a feeling it was just a root. Thanks for the help, ill go ahead and mount it then so it can grow faster!

Yay! I just got a shipping notice from Hausermann's. I should be getting my orchids tomorrow. I can't wait to see them!