V. Pat's Delight Purple Blue

[FSUOrchids]

I think this time I was able to get the actual color with my new phone..last year when it bloomed it looked completely different in the pictures than in reality.

This plant has 5-6'' flowers. No fragrance.

[tucker85]

Beautiful!

[LovePhals]

Beautiful Blooms! I notice your Vanda has black spotting on the leaves- and one of my Vandas going into bloom has spotting just like that, is that from high light? My vanda has it mostly on the lower leaves. I have seen you grow many vandas and I am new at them, so thanks for the input!

[RosieC]

Really gorgeous, lovely colour!

[Picotee]

Gorgeous! Love the big round, flat 'dinner plate' vandas.

[AussieVanda]

Solid looking blooms, great colour depth. Have you lost a few lower leaves?

[FSUOrchids]

This is an older plant...it does get a lot of light.

I've only had it for a year or so. I'm not sure what happened to the lower leaves but they just seem to have been removed or something. It has about 4 feet of roots that are not in the picture.

[Sak_ikim_lol]

Great flowers!!!! Congratulations!!!

About spottings, well, I´m not an expert about fungus, but plants growing outdoors can have certain spottings and marks due airborne. To avoid them, here in Yucatan (that is very humid and hot, good facts for developing fungus and bacterial problems) I decided to just only watering the roots (I have my vandas growing in the typical plastic baskets under shade cloth) and only the rain or every month, water touches the leaves that after I dry by hand with paper tissues :-). Indeed beginning from the top to bottom leaves and I don´t use the same tissue for more than one plant. This was the way that I stopped guignardia in some plants when they arrived and I don´t have to clean water spots due the hard water that we have here. I don´t like to use chemicals. So keeping leaves and axils clean and dry as possible is a good way to have pretty vanda plants. I think...

Mario

[WhiteRabbit]

Fabulous!

[Gthumbz89]

That is awesome!!