Monthly Status Reports - April 2008

[gmdiaz]

!!!!!Kiki!!!!!

Your flowers and your home are so beautiful! I love everything! Including that lamp (WOW)!



I just bought that Ascda. Blue Tahourdin x Neof. falcata 'White Flamingo' AM/AOS. . .Thanks, Marilyn!. . .and it came in spike! BIG spike. So I can hardly wait to see if it will bloom pink or blue. I am hoping for BLUE BLUE BLUE.

I'll post a pic for ya in it's own thread. . .feel free to tag your photos in with mine! Be so much fun to see what we get.

[Ross]

Originally Posted by quiltergal

Ross that damned white stuff is still falling here today, and sticking! Did I say I was sick of winter?

75 degrees here today and my daughter is planting peas and spinach. I feel your pain. Been there done that. We seem to be ducking all the storms here lately.

[quiltergal]

Thought I'd post a couple pics of my Den. showing where it blasted at the apex a few months ago, and the new spike growing out from under the last leaf. The plant was on my bottom shelf with the other tall plants and I think it may have gotten too cold (low 60's at night, mid - hi 60's day) causing the spike to blast before it ever really got started. When I rearranged things to accomodate my spiking Phals it ended up on the top shelf. It's a few degrees warmer up there and gets lots of light. Anybody got a different theory?

[Ashley]

Never posted to one of these before and still only a small collection my many standards but just happy a most of my collection is still in full flower.

4 Phal Noids
Vanda Siam Ink
Ascocenda Springtime
Phal malibu bistro
Ascocenda yanisa Gold
Miltonia Noid

Might be a few more by tomorrow off to the Harrogate Spring flower show should be hundreds of nurseries there so must be a few orchid stands.

Kat

[quiltergal]

Oooh Kat! Tell us what you bring home!

I remember last year when I only had 10 chids. Now I think I have around 40+, and I've given some away! I'm running out of room quickly. Maybe the birthday fairy will bring me an orchidarium? Probably being too optimistic!

[kavanaru]

ok, here we go...

Phal. Mini Mark
Phla. equestris
Aerangis citrata
Cattleya skinerii var. oculata (sold as alba, but...)
Rossioglossum Radown Jester
Sedirea japonica
Lc. Chyong Guu Swan 'White Jade'

in buds:

Sedirea japonica Daruma
Promenaea limelight x Prom. Citrata
Doritaenopsis Purple Martin (spike)
Phal. Pink Panther (spike)

[shakkai]

Terri, That re-spike is amazing! Thanks for showing us! What a great little Den! I, too, remember when I just had a dozen - was it just over a year ago, and before I joined Orchid Board?!!? I remember just about the time of the first project I participated in, have 40-odd. There was a poll at that time about how many orchids were in your collection.... Well, I've tripled that now, and I still have more to come. Good grief!! It sure has been fun!

Kat - tell us what you got!!

[shakkai]

PS. Some more pics of things that are in bloom...

Den. williamsonii - still in flower since last month:


A better pic of Coelogyne ochracea:
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The two Miltassia NOIDs:



And the flower has now opened on the Leptotes bicolor. This is a self cross of the cultivar Leptotes bicolor 'Head'

[cb977]

Originally Posted by quiltergal

Oooh Kat! Tell us what you bring home!

I remember last year when I only had 10 chids. Now I think I have around 40+, and I've given some away! I'm running out of room quickly. Maybe the birthday fairy will bring me an orchidarium? Probably being too optimistic!

I distinctly remember being asked how many chids I had about 2 yrs ago...and my answer being 58! I thought then...This is getting crazy!




Shannen, your blooms are gorgeous!

Kat, we're waiting patiently to hear what you got!

[cowboy51278]

Originally Posted by cb977

I distinctly remember being asked how many chids I had about 2 yrs ago...and my answer being 58! I thought then...This is getting crazy!




Shannen, your blooms are gorgeous!

Kat, we're waiting patiently to hear what you got!

this time last year I can remember thinking 60 is way to many I should cut back. I went through and counted while I watered thurs morning. I was shocked at 171. I really need to update my list on here. I think when I hit 200 I need to stop til next spring.....hopefully thats when a greenhouse will spring out of my yard and I can move all my chids out there.