Some Phals seedlings, wish me luck

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Got these 4 phals seedlings from a plant bazaar organised by local plants enthusiasts.
Wish me luck that all these will grow into flowering adults.
2 seedlings of phal violacea mentawai, 1 phal violacea x violacea 'Red', and 1 hybrid phal violacea x (auspice neihon x ludde)

I heard that phals seedlings like to grow next to each other. hmmm.. The larger seedling looks ready to be mounted soon.

[WhiteRabbit]

Aww cute!

[Bud]

Happy healthy plants....but they are at their most vulnerable stage....GL!

Adorable little plants. I can see some nice roots. Good luck.

[Orchidgirl83]

They are adorable! i would be terrified that I would kill such tiny babies. Good Luck!

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Here's an update 1 month later
All of them have a new leaf, so that must be a good thing.

[WhiteRabbit]

Yay!

[sthh]

Got this phal violacea 'mentawai' in Oct 2012 as a small seedling. Mounted it quickly, and left it in a corner and then it grew, and grew.
It is not easy to flower this plant, as it put up altogether 4 flowering spikes, and aborted 2 of them, before it put up another flowering spike, starts splitting on that, and then finally flowering. It's been quite a wait. The plant have a very long flowering spike, and likes to split into multiple spikes along those. Also has a nice and strong fragrance.

Sept 2012, plant on the top.


late Aug 2014
The flower is not fully opened yet actually when I took this picture.

[Leafmite]

Wow! Beautiful!

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Originally Posted by Leafmite

Wow! Beautiful!

Thanks. I think the flower and flower spike are actually quite yummy. Lost one spike to a caterpillar. First time it happen to any of my phal !!! This plant is so different from the normal violacae because the spike is so long.