Miltoniopsis "Red tide 159"

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Here is my milt. that I purchased a month ago!!

The blooms don't live up to it's name though...

not that they arent nice, they are a nice velvetly maroon colour (it looks more red in the picture, they are very dark and purplish in reality ), but... I personally would not have named it "Red tide" haha

[Dorothy]

It's still a beauty Morse Code Man ..
Is this one fragrant?
It reminds me of a NOID I once had

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the flowers just opened, so they probably won't have any scent for a few days, but the tag says it should have fragrance

It looks almost the same, but yours had a different mask on the large petal, and there is blight red in the center, mine is all pretty much one colour. pretty similar though . It could be a red tide, since there are different ones, i have 159, and I know there is a real red one that is 'red tide 160'. ps yours was soo nice!!!

[Dorothy]

Thank you
It had 30 blooms at one time on it at it's peak ..
I don't know what it could have been - A NOID is a NOID
but it was stunning fully flowered ..
and it was scent-less

( kind of like me .. senseless )

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Originally Posted by Dorothy

Thank you
It had 30 blooms at one time on it at it's peak ..
I don't know what it could have been - A NOID is a NOID
but it was stunning fully flowered ..
and it was scent-less

( kind of like me .. senseless )

What happened to it?

I hope this one smells as good as my other milts oh well I ll have to wait a few more days ...

[Dorothy]

It was severely pot-bound when I bought it .. When I repotted it after it bloomed, I found the roots were a dried out, tangled mess .. I trying to save what pieces I could but nothing took
I think I overwatered it then underwatered it .. it was one of my first orchids and I didn't know what I was doing .. I chalked it up to a learning experience ...

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do you have any miltoniopsis now?

I find I can't grow any orchids in bark other than phals and phaphs... the rest need to be lightly potted in spagh moss. I kill any roots when they are in bark haha. Anyways, my milts seem to be okay in moss, and are growing lots of new roots

[Dorothy]

No milts now .. despite loving them - I hesitate buying another .. Milts and oncids don't grow well for me so I tend to stay away from them .. if I do try any oncids, it would be a tolumnia ..
though, I have looked for smaller sized milts in the past..