Help!! I just broke off a little eye.

[Rosiefuture]

Hi Annette, here's a pic of my plant taken a couple of days ago. I've had it about 3 years and it's probably trebled in size and it now has 8 new growths on it. It's outside all year round, I just brought it indoors to take the pic.

[Queenslander]

omg. Marion, what size pot is that. My bulbs, are lying flat, looks like one on top of the other. I intend to move mine from pot into wooden hanging basket. I'm told, they don't like being moved, just let them stay in the one pot for 10 years or more. I can't get over how they are standing up like that, like monoliths. At the moment, it is in the greenhouse, but I might consider moving it to under the shade of a tree. I don't know how it is going to like our hot summers, around the 30c mark. I suppose just keep misting it. Have you upsized your pot, how did the cristata like that?

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[Rosiefuture]

Originally Posted by Queenslander

omg. Marion, what size pot is that. My bulbs, are lying flat, looks like one on top of the other. I intend to move mine from pot into wooden hanging basket. I'm told, they don't like being moved, just let them stay in the one pot for 10 years or more. I can't get over how they are standing up like that, like monoliths. At the moment, it is in the greenhouse, but I might consider moving it to under the shade of a tree. I don't know how it is going to like our hot summers, around the 30c mark. I suppose just keep misting it. Have you upsized your pot, how did the cristata like that?

It's 18cms wide at the lip and 17cms tall. I repotted it into that at the end of the summer. Mine was actually in a hanging basket and I decided to put it into an upright pot. This is the third time of repotting, as I said it's grown about 3 times the size in about 3 years, it didn't seem to be phased by the move. It would just be nice now to get a few blooms!

Our summers here in Perth are very hot and dry, often a week or more at a time of 40c temperatures. Our winters are cool and reasonably wet, but this winter just gone was our driest on record, and our sunniest.
During summer it probably gets watered 3-4 times a week and in winter it gets whatever rain comes. It's under shade cloth on my back patio with most of my other orchids......well not counting the ones under the side patio and the ones hanging in trees and the ones under the ficus and the frangipani and the mulberry tree!

and the 100 or so indoors.......

[RosieC]

Sorry, didn't manage to get time to take a pic list night. I'll try again later today.

[Rosiefuture]

Originally Posted by RosieC

Sorry, didn't manage to get time to take a pic list night. I'll try again later today.

Now Rosie that just won't do!....hehehe

No probs

[Queenslander]

Marion, it doesn't seem to be a fussy orchid at all. If it's had that many moves. I may have been told wrong info. about this orchid. Being patient is a virtue isn't it. We all want to see the little pet's flowers. They are like our little children. A little Phosphorus fert. might do the trick (like Orchid Bloom booster) I think now is the right time. As a new shoot is starting on mine. I live in Brissie, I think we have a better temp. Best of luck.

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by Rosiefuture

Now Rosie that just won't do!....hehehe

No probs

Arrhhh and again

I've had a couple of evenings when I ended up not getting home till late and then basically ate and went to bed.

Really hopeing I got home on time tonight.

[RosieC]

OK, here we go.

This is on an Encyclia cochleata (or whatever it's now called). The eyes on this orchid are pretty clear and elongated, on others they can be more hidden and on my Brassia tend to look dried up. They can stay at this stage for months, possibly even years... then suddenly get going and turn into a new growth (like the one on the far side of the p-bulb in this pic.

[Rosiefuture]

Thanks Rosie! That actually answers a lot of questions. I've seen these little things on various orchids and wondered why they didn't seem to do anything. I have seen several that look like that one on my Phaius Tankerville. I've just thought of them as pre-growths which I suppose is what they are. Thanks a lot for that!