Ok, admit it.....what have you bought lately 2014 edition!!

[MattWoelfsen]

I just bought this Vanda (Neofinetia) falcata Ito-Seikai 糸青海. Photo comes from the vendor Seed Engei.


Ito-Seikai 糸青海 by MattWoelfsen, on Flickr

[upnorthorchids]

Okay, so I had the chance to go back in to town today, and the reddish-orange (true color, my photos show too much red) peloric mini phalaenopsis was still in the floral section of the grocery store! I should have asked for a discount since it was after Valentine's Day, but $12.99 is okay for me. Bonus: my wife loves it. And fittingly, it is in her kitchen window above the sink.

"Teacup Phals" are new for me.

Please let me know if this is not a true peloric, since it is an unknown, but fits the bill, right?

Adam~

[Daethen]

I say it is a peloric. Very pretty.

[weederwoman]

Are these mutations that might be caused by chemicals
and will not repeat at the next bloom, or are they permanent? I'm not sure how to apply the term peloric.
Thanks

Laurel

[AvantGardner]

Went and visited Marilyn at Windy Hill Gardens for my birthday! It's all I want to do for my birthday every year. I came home with this

Windy hill haul 2/16/14
Paph Greta Kooiker (Shin-Yi's Pride 'Windy Hill' AM/AOS x parishii 'Green Spiders')*
Paph (stonei 'Jean' x Kolosand 'Windy Hill' HCC/AOS)*
Paph kolopakingii v. topperi ('Jamboree' HCC/AOS x 'Jeanie's Green Giant')*
Paph haynaldianum ('Orchid Inn' x 'Jackie' AM/AOS)
Paph stonei (Jean x MBG)
Paph. kolopakingii var. topperi 'Jamboree' HCC/AOS x gigantifolium 'Dark Warrior'
Paph sanderianum x sib
*Paph Cereal Killer (Apple Jack 'Windy Hill' HCC/AOS x Zephyrus Grand Macabre 'Burgundy Glow' AM/AOS)
Mexipedium xerophyticum 'Oaxaca'

All plants NBS except sanderianum which is a large seedling (8" ls). I might see that one bloom before the kids are off to college...

[Sharry]

The second pansy orchid from Safeway two weeks ago has unfurled. About a year ago, I purchased some pots supposedly designed for cool growing orchids. This purchase will be chance to test them.

[Subrosa]

Just got an unexpected windfall. so I treated myself to a couple of SVO orchids. Ordered an Aip. Gunter Gerlach 'Ron K' x Stan jenischiana 'Catorce' AM/AO and my first Catasetum, an Fdk. After Dark 'Morning After' x Ctsm pileatum 'Green Gold'. Can't wait!

[palm521]

some other orchids found their way to my greenhouse (no idea how or why, but i think it was my alter ego)

1x bulbophyllum longissimum
1x huntleya wallissi
1x cleisocentrom gokusingii
1x masdevalia tovarensis
1x haraella odorata (retrocalla)

i am now reaching 300 different species in cultivation, plus no idea how many unid species that i am waiting to see in bloom to ID then. Waiting for the H&R ones.(posted a in page 7)

i should be traveling to the states in march 16 to the 21, sadly i wont be there for the santa barbara show, but at least i am ordering a few orchids, and some other from thailand.

do you guys know if thailand can ship to the states without problems? was told that as long as CITEs and phyto is in place plants enter without issues? please share the experience!

Cheers!

Antonio.

[upnorthorchids]

Originally Posted by weederwoman

Are these mutations that might be caused by chemicals
and will not repeat at the next bloom, or are they permanent? I'm not sure how to apply the term peloric.
Thanks

Laurel

Hi Laurel,

I, too, have seen these "mutations" in grocery store orchids and thought for sure it was chemicals or fertilizers. That was until I saw a post referring to a "peloric phalaenopsis", so I searched the word 'peloric' in google and found hundreds of photos, mostly phals, that show this and similar formed flowers.

Rather than refer to the form as a mutation, I like to think of it as an "appendage", sort of like on space-age bearded irises which have flounces, horns, spoons, or even pompoms at the end of the beards.

The second bud opened on my mini phal, and it has consistently shaped petals to the first flower on the stem, so I assume it's in the genes of this plant.

Happy for sure!
Adam~

[palm521]

peloric is normally a mutation that will stay forever and present everytime it blooms.

(should be like that)

cheers