Vanda season is here!!!

[Sak_ikim_lol]

Well I think that I´m doing something good. Three vandas are blooming at the same time. I think they are acclimatized and feeling fine with the Yucatan weather. Under my care Pure's Wax and Pat's Delight are blooming for a second time and for the first time a NOID (it supposes that is a Robert's Delight but well until I see the flowers I will know it, last year it didn´t bloom) is having a wonderful thick flower stem. So I'm sharing my happiness with all of you. Hope you like them!!

I think the beautiful apple green leaves are a sign that they love me...

Regards from hot and humid Mérida after a monsoonic-like afternoon rain.

Mario

[AussieVanda]

Great looking colour on the leaves!

[Paul Mc]

Congrats!!!

[silken]

The plants and blooms are beautiful. How do you keep the leaves so pristine? My one Vanda was fine until this past winter when I got spots on the leaves. And not from leaving water on them either as I never get them wet. Maybe I should hose them down now and then.

[hanzy08]

those are very healthy looking plants!!

[WhiteRabbit]

Awesome!

[Sak_ikim_lol]

Originally Posted by AussieVanda

Great looking colour on the leaves!

Thanks!!! I think my vandas are receiving a good amount of light. I grow them under 50/50 shade cloth. Here the sun cuts the stones!

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Originally Posted by Paul Mc

Congrats!!!

Thanks!!! Indeed when I started growing vandas in 2013 I had many doubts (well now I have other ones, hehehe) but certainly reading posts in OB and asking about vanda growing was a great info source!

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Originally Posted by silken

The plants and blooms are beautiful. How do you keep the leaves so pristine? My one Vanda was fine until this past winter when I got spots on the leaves. And not from leaving water on them either as I never get them wet. Maybe I should hose them down now and then.

Thanks for your lines. Well, maybe my merit is on the last 7 or 8 leaves that they developed under my care. My vandas have this leaves condition due I don´t wet them. Just when raining (and sometimes if is a night rainfall I dry them after). Here we have hard water and when I started growing them I see how the salts stay on leaves and I began to clean them, but I see that I would bruising the leaves when I rub inside the leaves specially when I bend the longitudinal vein trying to cleaning. So I decided to do not wet them. During dry season months I clean them (once a month) early morning with purified water and dry them with paper napkins, beginning from the top because I don´t want to propagate guignardia or any other fungus from lower leaves to the top ones. And I don´t use the same napkin on another plant. So because the plants are in plastic baskets, with free roots swinging in the air, when watering is just the roots. Besides they are under 50/50 shade cloth and is a kind of protective shield against hard rainfall, birds (hummingbirds are always around near heliconias), etc. so I have little problem with spots. But indeed always there are exceptions. Last week there was a night rainfall and my Vanda tricolor (spotless until that) developed an ugly black dot and I´m having again some fungus prob with a Sansai Blue leaf tips. Each vanda has its own requirements.

Thanks again!!!

Mario

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Originally Posted by hanzy08

those are very healthy looking plants!!

Thanks!!! I have a small collection so I can keep them fine. Vandas are like pets... I must to take care of them when waking up and when the day is over and I go to sleep But I´m not complaining, I like it!

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Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

Awesome!

I will update when more buds open!!!

[Bud]

How exciting for you....You have the atmosphere and temperature to grow Vandas well....

[Sak_ikim_lol]

Originally Posted by Bud

How exciting for you....You have the atmosphere and temperature to grow Vandas well....

Indeed!!! I´m very happy! You can imagine my first days growing vandas trying to understand how to read requirements for a good growing and adapting to Mérida, watching them (I knew about phals, catts, species... but no vandas) and specially how to watering. After more of a year I think more or less I understand them :-). Indeed I'm still understanding Sansai Blue (maybe because coerulea) and tricolor. They are blooming size but no blooming after a year. We will see...

THANKS!!!

[Sak_ikim_lol]

UPDATING!!!!! :-)

Pure's Wax and Pat's Delight. The NOID is still opening but I hope somebody can guess the name. (I don't think that is a Robert's Delight as the tag said)