Phal. bastiani first bloom

[fishmom]

I received this plant in a trade in 2014, as a rooted keiki. Last year it threw a bloom spike which did not bloom, but now that spike is blooming along with one of the two new spikes that grew this year. Very satisfying!

[camille1585]

That's beautiful, and must be satifying to grow a plant from a young plant to blooming. I love Phal bastianii, and sadly had to throw mine out last year due to disease. Your photos remind me how badly I want to replace it.

[billc]

That's very nice.

Bill

[jcec1]

That's a good looking plant. Mine is just coming into bloom as well now. It's spikes last for years and produce lots of keikis too.

[Ray]

In time - and not all that much time - it will become a plant with a mass of keikies, and I urge you not to remove them, but to repot the thing into a larger, shallow pot. "Mom" and "babies" will all bloom together and put on a tremendous show.

Mine is in a 10" octagonal plastic basket that I set into the bottom of a 5-gallon bucket to trap humidity, and I must have had 20 keikies on it. I gave a few a way, and the plant died back to the mother plant during the abuse of moving, but it is recovering nicely now.

[No-Pro-mwa]

Really pretty. Wow, Ray I would have loved to see it in all it's glory.