Random Stuff - Just Some Orchid Bits and Bobs

Not a huge amount going on in the orchid growroom at the moment, but some blooms, spikes and buds, and some 'chat' about some of the plants' progress. There's also an update on the Bifrenaria - the mount that was put in a pot.
As always, thanks for watching.

[denisenoak]

Of course you have something to do with your orchids today! You have to tend looking at them! Never a dull day!

[sherrywalker]

Your Vandas look awesome! Don’t ditch your Vandas Roger! They’re breathtaking when they do blooms and last forever

[orchidsadutchy]

What you said about soggy pseudobulbs on oncidium-type orchids reminded me of something I read once in a Finnish orchid forum about a coelogyne cristata, which started to produce foam from a pseudobulb. The bulb was getting yellow and suddenly foam started to appear from the top of the bulb. The owner put photos for the others to see, and the plant was nicknamed "champagne cristata". 😁 There was probably a colony of bacteria multiplying inside the pseudobulb. Oh, that dendrobium rhodostictum looks lovely! I bought my first latouria dendrobium, a cross of den. Nora Tokunaga and den. aberrans. It's tiny and cute. It looks like your den. polycenae x aberrans, but less spotted. The one that was in bloom in the show was much more spotted, and I thought mine would look the same, but when it bloomed, it has almost no spots at all. Hopefully the next time it will be spottier (now I made up that word, didn't I?). It's exciting that the bulbophyllum you got from Archy is making a spike. I'm curious to see how it will look like. Hopefully my bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann 'Buckeberry' will bloom someday. It's a beautiful plant. The blooms are so interesting. What do you think of the fragrance? I kind of like it. I have only seen these in bloom at orchid shows. Your dendrobium victoria reginae looks like it will make lots of blooms. The orchids love being in your greenhouse. I wish I could grow my orchids like that. What you said about specimen size plants, that occasionally are splitted up by nurseries and sold, I recently had the opportunity to buy a small division of a specimen show plant from Currlin Orchideen. It is a cultivar of leptotes bicolor, called 'Giant Open'. The blooms it makes are bigger and open more than the regular bicolor. Apparently they still have divisions of their plant for sale at their webshop. I wouldn't have known it was a division of a show plant if I hadn't asked them more about this cultivar. I have a good feeling about this plant. About tolumnias, I have 2, and the one that wasn't doing well is now making a spike. She was very dry for months and almost died, but then it started to make new roots and now I'm happy I didn't give up on it. I will make a video about it. I don't really know what I would do to that cattleya you have in a mount. It's really a hard decision. I love that tolumnia with peach coloured flowers you have in bloom there! So pretty! What is its name?

[rosefame]

Your white vanda has to be my favorite flower in your grow room. I think that they really like the baskets that they’re planted in. Very nice that they bloom more than once per year. I don’t have any more room for them, sadly or I’d have to try my luck with that one. I like how long that the blooms last on it also. More than 2 weeks now right? Have a good day.

[davidmayo]

I have several mini vandas that have some beautiful spikes and blooms at or even less as big as you two you could come across some of them...if you like the vandas but limited for space. Your cinnamon twinkle is fabulous! I am still looking for a nice cinnamon one. I mount or repot cattleyas whenever I can get to it....never have had an issue or aborted buds as I do it in bud also...good luck in whatever you decide to do!

[becik]

Don't worry Roger you are not only one with confused Den. My Den. Spring Dream Apollon also mix Autum with Spring and is flowering like crazy ;)

[angiemiller]

I would love to buy one of your vanda's but I live in the USA and I am afraid you will not want to ship it here. If you do, please let me know. Thanks, Rodger, and keep up the great videos. I do so enjoy them!

[vickieescobar]

Sadly I think you're right about the Cattleya mount. If it has new growth it's now or later...may as well be now.
I know what you mean about not having much to film, but I so miss when there's not a video to start my day....between the slow down of plant maintenance and less videos to watch I should probably get other things done!
And the car thing....just went through that myself...1000. Dollars later....she runs like a top! But sure cut into my entertainment budget.
I have 6 spikes on one of my Cymbidiums...which is quite a feat here in S. Florida....hasn't bloomed since 2009... Trouble is I'm not even sure what prompted it....so not sure if I can replicate next year! Why it and not the others I also don't know.
Maybe you can get back to painting with all the time on your hands;) Whatever you do, know that we'll be here whenever you do load a video...enjoy your time!

[glendaurmacher]

Roger,
can one possibly cut the old or dead parts without a total remount or repot? Just snip the dead canes off and treat with peroxide &cinnamon?

[thelmashaw]

Hi Roger I bought a very healthy large vanda 3weeks ago it has two spikes with beautiful deep butter yellow flowers with red spots the roots are plentyful and about 18 to24 inches long There are 13pairs of lovely healthy leaves.I would value your advice on watering I put it in the bucket every day up to now. The temp is up to76f daytime and down to 66f during the night The other thing is how often do you change the water in your bucket Hope you can help as I really want to keep it healthy Thanks Thelma Shaw

[marygorchidsmore]

Your twinckle red looks very nice! Like your Peterkump! It has been in bloom for ages, how long has it been?

[mellie]

the vandas are so lovely!!!! i just love them! but i don't have any because i live in a small apartment and I can't figure out where on earth I could put it. I have one wondow that faces east, and live in the land of cloudy also known as normandy. Could I hang it off the bar of the curtains? would the cold that comes through the window bother a vanda (they are double paned but if you touch them they are definitly cooler) IDK. Do you have thoughts about how I could make a vanda work in my environment?

[sheilafritz]

My vote: Two/three holy clay pots once the days lengthen.

[denisesorchidparadise]

yes, I love Vandas, Please tell me their names.

[lluu]

I would love to have a vanda. But it might not be worth shipping to the US. Of course if you have others to go with it it may be worth the shipping?

[denisesorchidparadise]

where is your species Vanda? did not see it, did you show her, please don't say under the bush

[glendaurmacher]

Roger,
don't want you to think I am a copycat, but am winning copies of what you display in your videos, at raffle tables at all my (6) orchid societies. It is a disease.
Well, I have just gotten a den. Nestor with 3 dried canes and 2 decent size growing canes and 1 new cane ??? So can't let it totally dry out, but have been letting it go dry, but obviously not from Halloween to Valentines Day, as is recommended. No terminal leaves on the 2 lg canes, but am noticing bumps on the dried canes, either flower buds or kicks??
Remember, I am in So. Calif. on the coast, and it is Thanksgiving and a heat  wave is upon us (90+ degrees ). Not showing off either.
I envy your videos when it is raining,  
Just came back from the Santa Barbara Orchid Society show and auction at the History Museum where we spent the weekend.
So what to do with poor Nestor. Water,  or no water, let it go completely dry, and risk ruining nw growth, or water, and chance no flowers.
Any ideas.
Glenda
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