My Complete Orchid Collection

[Leafmite]

Great to get started young! You will have wonderful speciman plants to show off, someday!
My Sharry Baby was only fragrant on sunny days and as Ohio isn't exactly a sunny place, I quickly lost interest. It found a new home. Oncidium Twinkle, oncidium cheiroporum, and Burr. Nelly Isler 'Swiss Beauty' don't seem as affected.
I'll bet you can really smell that nodosa, though!

[ron-in-norcal]

Good job! And nice thanksgiving photos, too. I started growing plants when I was really young.

[The Orchid Boy]

Nice orchids you have. How fragrant is the B. nodosa? What does it smell like? Hopefully my O. Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance' will be fragrant all the time because it is usually very sunny here and I grow under T5 lights.

Originally Posted by Kevinator

Actually Brenda, I can only get a very limited amount of orchids per year since I'm actually thirteen. I know, shocking isn't it ?

Same with me. My parents restrict my orchid buying. They did let me get a $125 orchid though. As you said before: "I know, shocking isn't it ?"

[Kevinator]

The B. Nodosa is somewhat fragrant at night. Its not as fragrant as you may think it is. I found that the night after fertilization, the orchid's smell is enhanced. For Sherry Baby, perfect conditions are needed for full fragrance. My plant is putting out its third spike in two months (the second one being distorted and ugly like a ball) but it is short. It still hasn't opened yet.

P.S. I divided the Sherry Baby and gave one to a friend of mine who wanted it. Unfortunately, it did not survive long in his house and died =(.

[dendro king]

i want to buy a b. nodosa soon, how much did the psychopsis cost?? nice orchids, ill have to put up a pic of mine......im waiting for my sharry baby to spike, it should smell lots coz its in the sunn all day.
ill try fertilising my neostylis so the smell is stronger tommorow morning...... i love fragrant orchids!!

[Brenda Aarts]

Originally Posted by The Orchid Boy

They did let me get a $125 orchid though. ?"

Out of curiosity, what is your $125 orchid?

[The Orchid Boy]

My $125 orchid is a 2 growth, blooming sized Paph. sanderianum.

[Brenda Aarts]

Originally Posted by The Orchid Boy

My $125 orchid is a 2 growth, blooming sized Paph. sanderianum.

Nice, good choice, they're amazing ! Good luck with it.

[Kevinator]

Hello Dendro King!

Online, the plant would cost sixty dollars because it is so rare. However, I live only twenty minutes away from Norman's Orchids and they had it priced twenty dollars cheaper. This is just one of the advantages you get from buying plants in store. Heck, my Angraecum was fifteen dollars less when I bought it in store (By the way, their website is Orchids.com)!

I am planning to enter the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show with this plant in March. Any suggestions?

[dendro king]

Thanks...... I'll have a look on their site soon......
But I live near a orchid nursery and the lady loves me! It's the advantage of being a kid I think!
You should definitely put it in the show! Good luck