Paph. Holiglory x Paph. charlesworthii "thanksgiving"

[jreidsma]

Hi everyone

In the other thread we discussed getting this orchid. I have chronic daily headaches and migraines, I was in bed sense six hours ago with a headache and woke up to this orchid in the kitchen:




I am going to figure out more care tomorrow with my freetime at school, I hope I can keep it alive as it was $27

It looks pretty good health wise to me so far, I will inspect the roots later on once I get the soil right and everything.

Any care suggestions are appreciated

[PrognatusAfera]

I'm sorta new to orchids, especially slippers, but I just had to comment anyway and say THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

[WhiteRabbit]

Beautiful!

[jreidsma]

I have better-gro special orchid mix, for all epiphyte orchids and it says paphs right on it I will use it and maybe mix in some coconut coir.

It is a very beautiful plant

[Susie11]

Great buy! I love charlesworthii and I can see a lot of it in here. Good luck!

[cbuchman]

Great color and it must have made you feel better

[jreidsma]

It did help me get through the rest of the day Almost brought me to tears.

The longer I look at this plant, the more I love it

[jreidsma]

Here it is after I repotted it with new soil and checked its roots over:






The soil it was in was pretty good quality that I could tell. It was a really soft loose mix of what looked like wood and some other decomposing stuff. I think what is called humus or something?

I put it in about a 40:60 or 50:50 mix of the coconutcoir/fiber, and bark/orchid specialty better-gro mix that I use for everything else orchid. It said great for paphs on it.

No root rot that I could tell, the roots were a bit stiff to being moved but I didn't really test their softness, as I didn't want to break the hundreds of tiny hairs on it.

Hope I am doing it correctly