Vanda lamellata

[TOMMYMIAMI]

Bud, breath taking for me, the color is just amazing, and the shape, beautiful orchid! Love it!

[Bud]

Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI

Bud, breath taking for me, the color is just amazing, and the shape, beautiful orchid! Love it!

Thank You for the visit and your encouraging words, Tommy!

[nikkik]

Wow, Bud, this is a beauty. I've seen some plants where the color and pattern wasn't as eye appealing as yours. Great job!

[Bud]

Originally Posted by nikkik

Wow, Bud, this is a beauty. I've seen some plants where the color and pattern wasn't as eye appealing as yours. Great job!

Thank You, nikkik!

I really do appreciate your kind encouragements....

[Picotee]

Congrats on that beauty, Bud. I'm beginning to think my lamellata may never rebloom. Heaven only knows why. Too much sun, it burns. Less sun, it sits there laughing at me while my other vandaceous do their thing. Good thing it only takes up very little room so I can outwait it.

[Bud]

Originally Posted by Picotee

Congrats on that beauty, Bud. I'm beginning to think my lamellata may never rebloom. Heaven only knows why. Too much sun, it burns. Less sun, it sits there laughing at me while my other vandaceous do their thing. Good thing it only takes up very little room so I can outwait it.

Thank You !

-I had this outdoors starting spring and the sun is up at 6am then by 11am the other buildings around me shade them from the hot midday sun....by 4 pm the sun again shines on them until the setting sun....

weekly fertilizer and there is no rest....even in winter on my south facing window it gets water regularly....

the temperature is 80F to 90F in the day and it gets 60 at night in the colder months (a month of constant 60F night temps and it spikes)

good airflow either outdoors or an electric fan indoors is a must.

[Picotee]

Originally Posted by Bud

Thank You !

-I had this outdoors starting spring and the sun is up at 6am then by 11am the other buildings around me shade them from the hot midday sun....by 4 pm the sun again shines on them until the setting sun....

weekly fertilizer and there is no rest....even in winter on my south facing window it gets water regularly....

the temperature is 80F to 90F in the day and it gets 60 at night in the colder months (a month of constant 60F night temps and it spikes)

good airflow either outdoors or an electric fan indoors is a must.

Mine is outdoors under 50% shadecloth, watered all year, regularly fertilized. I'm thinking maybe it needs colder night temperature to spike. We do have occasional night drops during winter, but perhaps not long enough to do the job. Thank you, Bud.

[Bud]

try also fertilizer every other week in colder months and December to February don't feed fertilizer at all....but water must continue its regimen.

I have a sneaky suspicion it is sulking =maybe you disturbed the roots too much when you repotted it.

[Picotee]

Originally Posted by Bud

try also fertilizer every other week in colder months and December to February don't feed fertilizer at all....but water must continue its regimen.

I have a sneaky suspicion it is sulking =maybe you disturbed the roots too much when you repotted it.

Yep, it's sulking alright. But not due to disturbing the roots. It's still in the same basket it came in. Just the same, thank you for your input! I will discontinue the fert as you suggest. Maybe that will shock some sense into it. LOL.

[Bud]

Its not to shock it....but if you read about equatorial orchids= they have only two seasons: the dry hot summers and the wet monsoon rains. The rains feed the plant by washing debris and bird droppings from the trees....and in the dry summer months it is not fed at all only the morning dew waters it.