phal bellina ponkan x bellina blue
 

its nice, not much scent. one flower spike died but 2 others are still going.


had a growing black spot on one of the leaves that I chopped out, seems to be growing faster now.

Hi,
beautiful vibration of color in the center.
Even the shape of the flower, being so slender, is attractive .
Congratulations
Nicola

Very nice, I echo Nicola 's comments.

That is very pretty. And those leaves, wonderful.

Beautiful!

It's hypnotizing me.....

Yes, gorgeous!

How did you get yours to rebloom? I usually bring my phals into my bedroom when it's time to set a spike because I open the window at night and they get the cooler temps and bingo! spikes appear. I'm hesitant to do this with bellina or violacea since they like their warmth.

How do you do it? :)

I grow them under lights at the moment in my living room, its rather warm in there most of the time but gets even warmer when the lights are on.

the lights come on from at 11 at night till 11 at morning, its usually about 80f plus under the lights when theyre on and 70f when theyre not.

will probably get warmer when its summer but will move them to my new greenhouse for a few months.

afaik they need more warmth and a bit more moisture to flower, think it also helps that under the lights I get continuous growth.

some of the orchids on the same shelves don't like it that warm so I'm moving them to my bedroom. think I'm just lucky that the bellinas and violaceas like my conditions.

its flowered again, wasn't attacked much by spider mites unlike some of my other orchids. will try to get a pic a bit more in focus later.

What a lovely flower! Congratulations!

Wow it's grown a lot since it's last flowering

thanks. its doing well, I had another more vigorous bellina but I made the mistake of leaving it in the greenhouse too long without checking it and it died.

they seem to grow really fast once they reach a certain size.

seem to grow better than violacea's for me, its probably not warm enough for them most of the year.

Oh, it's beautiful, I'm going to show it to my own tiny bellina baby for encouragement!

they have very nice flowers but don't grow very fast when small. I have a few seedlings and they aren't doing much yet.

hope your bellina keeps on growing steadily :)