Phal. stuartiana in bloom!

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Got this little guy at the Grand Valley Orchid Society show couple months ago. It was in spike at the time, and gosh waiting for these to open felt like forever.

When I first brought it home there were a couple more buds at nodes below the top of the spike. Those blasted. I thought eh oh well, a bit expected with the change in conditions. So then I had the main four buds. Finally within the last week they started to open. I'll be dammed though if one of the buds didn't start to blast right after I gave it a bit of water. Then two blooms open and a second bud blasted!!! So I'm still happy for the two flowers but that makes me nervous.





I included this pic because actually right now the flowers aren't as stark white as the above, and as they were at first. They've got a tint of yellow to them which you can see a bit in the image below. Not sure if this is normal or a bad sign, nervous after losing two buds.