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Lagoon 06-06-2012 06:30 AM

Oooo weeee gorgeous colour!

RosieC 06-06-2012 06:44 AM

Thanks Gloria,

A few people have commented on my greenhouse thread that they are surprised how large this flower is, you can't get a sense of scale really from the pics I've posted here.

Here's my shot of my greenhouse mounts with the masdi at the side. Gives more of a sense of scale.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7...e4514dcf19.jpg

Lagoon 06-06-2012 06:47 AM

You can't miss that beautiful large flower for sure!
Rosie, you're grow area looks so well put together and so clean - looks just great! :bowing

RosieC 06-06-2012 06:50 AM

:coverlaugh: well it's clean because I've just give in the 'spring' clean out after the winter... thankfully no pics of it as it was just before that :)

Lagoon 06-06-2012 06:56 AM

Loooooooooooool!! You make me laugh Rosie, I didn't even think about that one, ha ha. You clean up well :biggrin:

silken 06-06-2012 11:06 AM

It's gorgeous! I think I must get one!

Tindomul 06-06-2012 02:07 PM

As always, I love it when your veitch flowers. Just beautiful!!
I also had the problem with new growths getting out of the sheaths on a few of my Masdies (when I had a bigger collection). I found that increasing ambient humidity and not frequency of watering helped a lot in taking care of this problem. If left unchecked your orchid could die from investing so much energy into making leaves that never live long enough.

RosieC 06-07-2012 05:19 AM

Thanks Tindo,

I do try to keep humidity up when I can, I think that when I'm forgetting to water I'm also forgetting to do anything about humidity (regular water on the greenhouse floor helps) so for me the two are linked.

I bet it's high just now, didn't look this morning but it's been raining all night and the door was open so probably high humidity in the greenhouse :)

I'm not to worried about the growths as while are couple of struggling to free from the sheaths there are lots that appear to be doing fine. At one time when I first got this they were all doing it, so one or two out of so many growths is not so concerning.


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