New Year, new orchid project?

[Leafmite]

Ecuagenera will actually mail the orchids to your home when they reach the country where the show is held. I have gotten orchids this way (in a group order). They do tack on a fee but for what I was ordering, the orchids were still cheaper than buying them elsewhere.

I will try to find some time later to Google each orchid and try to find vendors for them and post the links. For ones that are too expensive or just available from one vendor or not available in other countries, we will need to decide what to do.

[rbarata]

Ecuagenera will actually mail the orchids to your home when they reach the country where the show is held.

Really? They do that?
So it's a lot easier.

[Salixx]

I can second Leafmite. Ecuagenera was at a show Florida and shipped plants to me up in little ole' NH. They all came in good and only one to ever struggle is a Masd. glandulosa... And that's 100% on me.

They all did come bare root except for a single mounted one.

[rbarata]

Ok, choose a small one but not miniature.

[FairyInTheFlowers]

I'm at school, but I came across the idea of Euchile citrina or mariae. Euchile mariae is pretty small, and I'm fairly sure it's an intermediate grower.

[orion141]

I like the looks of Isabelia virginalis as well! I would also consider a miniature epidendrum to be fun but would prefer if one selected was not only available bare-rooted from ecuagenera.

[gngrhill]

I would also like to join in depending on the plant chosen. Small works better for me also, and I prefer ones where the bloom is large compared to the plant size. I like to be able to see it

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Just looking online at Andy's and J&L to look at some of the suggestions and found Stelis. They both have multiple versions of them and they are intermediate, shade to light, small and they are listed as easy to grow and bloom multiple times a year and one even says in bud or bloom constantly. If we picked that genus, everyone could pick the variety they wanted. I don't know if they are available in other countries, so some others would have to check that out.

[rbarata]

I can get easily a Stelis ciliaris but the flowers are so tiny. Maybe not what you were looking for.

Now I need your help in finding the name of a genus that chaught my attention... a genus that blooms after the leaves fall off, with large flowers and thick pbulbs at the base and thin at the top. I think the flowers are mainly red.
Does it ring any bell?

[Leafmite]

Does anyone want to take charge of this project? I am going to be a little busier than expected. I wanted to look up each orchid to ascertain availability but I barely had time to check in today. :|

rbarata, are you thinking lycaste? Cyncnoches? Catasetum? The latter two often have leaves when they bloom but the first usually blooms leafless. I do not think they are always red, though, so you might be thinking of something else.

[gngrhill]

Originally Posted by rbarata

I can get easily a Stelis ciliaris but the flowers are so tiny. Maybe not what you were looking for.

Now I need your help in finding the name of a genus that chaught my attention... a genus that blooms after the leaves fall off, with large flowers and thick pbulbs at the base and thin at the top. I think the flowers are mainly red.
Does it ring any bell?

Can't help with your mystery genus, but as to the stelis, the descriptions I read vary between 1/3 inch and 1/2 inch flowers (don't know how to convert that to cm) which are pretty small, but they have multiple blooms on a stalk, so maybe they would still be showy .?.?