Vanda Blooming times

[Vanda lover]

Originally Posted by denvervet

Sounds like Vanda's like your location! So does a basal Keiki get taken off at some point or just leave it there? Thanks for solving the mystery.

I think that vandas are very adaptable as long as you can give them their basic needs. Light is very important, but mainly in the summer. Humidity, regular feeding and allow to dry a little between waterings. I'm in Canada but have no problem blooming them. You get to know what they want.
Keep in mind that the hybrids bloom much more easily and more often in most cases.

[denvervet]

I am not good yet at knowing if something is a hybred or not sorry to say. I am getting better at Orchid names but I am not there yet. I just love Vanda's and Brassia when they bloom. I have a Brassia that loves being on top of my 120 gallon turtle aquarium and its ready to bloom again, it blooms about every two months, increible long flowers.

[Vanda lover]

Brassia are great! I have one too. I also have a brassidium, which is a hybrid. It is a cross between a brassia and oncidium. It is fragrant, but the spider's legs aren't as long because of the oncidium. A lot of the vandas for sale these days are hybrids, crosses between different vandas and sometime have other orchids added in that are a related species.

[Paul Mc]

You can tell something is a hybrid by one of the ways it is designated on the tag. The first is by looking at the second name - if it is a capitalized word then it is a hybrid, all species are designated by lower case. Some growers never give a new name and instead designate with something akin to Phal so-and-so x Phal. so-and-so. The x designates what one orchid was breed with to create the hybrid. Another one is the use of parenthisis or quotation marks after the two part name, for example Phal so-and-so (Windy Delight) or Phal so-and-so "Windy Delight." To my knowledge, these are the only ways to tell if something has been bred/hybridized or not. I believe the last example may be more of a breeding designation rather than a hybridizing, but don't quote me on that one, lol... Still learning this myself.