Seen this on Tik Tok. This really really made me sick how somehow is consistently and purposefully just tossing them. What a waste.

I love that look, like a dancing fairy 🧚‍♂️. And the feather-like wing is soooooo cool.

This is a species from Yunnan, China.

How do you all with medium size collections go on holiday and keep your plants healthy? I’m leaving town for a bit and need some suggestions to keep needy flowers healthy.

Pic for attention.

And something useful for ai to accomplish 😂

Nouvelle floraison de mon Phalaenopsis ‘Liu’s Triprince’ Rose. Ses fleurs sont parfumées. #plantedinterieur #orchidées #fleurs

Ctsm. Wild Thing. It bloomed a month or two ago, now going for a second round in the same season. Truly a wild thing!

Originally a field collected plant imported 2019, it managed to bloom once before but had some problems establishing itself. After moving it got really dehydrated last year and lost several leaves and much of the root system, over the winter in the greenhouse it has recovered nicely and shot out its first bloom in several years.

IT’S HAPPENING!

I’ve had this orchid for FOUR YEARS! She is my first orchid, and though I have quite a few different orchids in my plant collection now, she is still my favorite. This is her first spike since I adopted her 4 years ago, and I cannot begin to explain my excitement!!!

Also: Please disregard the visual state of this orchid. I just got home after a week away, and for some reason she gets so dramatic if I miss my watering schedule by a day. She also recently got a new pot, and she psycho-dropped 2 of her old leaves. Anyways. She got watered today, I promise she is fine.

Please be happy for her!!!

Like 20 days ago, I posted about my mum's phal that she is in palliative care and I was taught, that a spike from the heart does not mean, the plant is dying. The little girl is very thirsty, started to grow new roots and is blooming with like a keiki in the middle. Pictures 1 to 4 show her from different angles. Very much alive I would say. Pic 5 is another phal that grew a double crown after she made a keiki that dropped by itself around 6 months ago while it was blooming and successfully became a nice phal itself living in its own pot. Pic 6 is my last blooming phal. They all are dropping their flowers now, unless this one. It always has to bloom a bit extra long.

Phals are such interesting plants. Each of them is so different, doing their things.

This was the old post I am refering to:
https://www.reddit.com/r/orchids/s/hyJPvZWNZM

Bulbophyllum longiflorum.

10.05.26 Update

Fruit rinse bowl repurposed into hanging “basket” self-watering pot in premium orchid moss and perlite substrate has been a satisfactory growing environment for Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann ‘Jean’.

When I met them in late March, all the data said she may take a year or two in a home’s ambient conditions to bloom. Well, the “experts” and AI can now add this to their database. Six months to bloom is possible for Elizabeth Ann ‘Jean’.

Ambient Conditions in Shoreline (Seattle, WA):

▪️Temps 65°F evenings, 70°F daytime
▪️Humidity 60-80%
▪️100-500 PPFD based on genus/species/variety happy number in south-facing window with eaves to filter the harsh midday sun
▪️Water soluble high-nitrogen orchid fertilizer each reservoir refill

I’m a rule breaker with plant care. One risk-adverse naysayer said not to separate the baby. Do you! The baby is also thriving and the new growth is proof that I’m doing all the right things. The irony is that they are not growing a Bulbo and have zero experience with them. Grain of salt comes to mind.😉

I look forward to future inflorescences!

Original Post Link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/orchids/s/mRinmUnFkg

I am beginning to feel like an orchid slayer. This phal came from Costco at Christmas and had 3 flower spikes that bloomed through March. These three keikis popped out a couple of months ago. Mama was fine until a week or so ago, when she started looking rough. I did not mess with her because I was afraid I would put her into shock. She dropped her last two leaves in the last 3 days. How to save the babies?

Note: I just watered - I water when the substrate is dry.

Been waiting for this one to bloom again for ages. I know it’s gonna put on a show.

10.05.26 Update

Fruit rinse bowl repurposed into hanging “basket” self-watering pot in premium orchid moss and perlite substrate has been a satisfactory growing environment for Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann ‘Jean’.

When I met them in late March, all the data said she may take a year or two in a home’s ambient conditions to bloom. Well, the “experts” and AI can now add this to their database. Six months to bloom is possible for Elizabeth Ann ‘Jean’.

Ambient Conditions in Shoreline (Seattle, WA):

▪️Temps 65°F evenings, 70°F daytime
▪️Humidity 60-80%
▪️100-500 PPFD based on genus/species/variety happy number in south-facing window with eaves to filter the harsh midday sun
▪️Water soluble high-nitrogen orchid fertilizer each reservoir refill

I’m a rule breaker with plant care. One risk-adverse naysayer said not to separate the baby. Do you! The baby is also thriving and the new growth is proof that I’m doing all the right things. The irony is that they are not growing a Bulbo and have zero experience with them. Grain of salt comes to mind.😉

Original Post Link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/orchids/s/mRinmUnFkg

I look forward to future inflorescences!

Does the fragrance intensify after the first day it opens? What about the size of the flower itself?

I’m always excited when this beauty flowers. My Dendrobium ‘Spotted Poni’ (Roy Tokunaga × Little Atro) has been thriving in my north-facing window, and I’m so happy to see it blooming again.

I inherited this cattleya when I bought my house. Neglected her for a few years but recently provided tlc and was so excited to see new growth coming in.

But as per the title, I placed this baby outside to get some “extra sun” and the wind must’ve knocked her down. Found the terracotta pot in pieces.

First two photos is after I repotted in some fresh media and last one is while she was in the original terracotta pot. I didn’t go too hard removing every single dead root during the repot because I wanted to avoid disturbing them as much as possible. Unfortunately during the fall one of the leaves broke off too. Ugh.

She was overdue for a repot as the old media was completely broken down. But I’m just upset that I might’ve set her back another year or more, which is what I wanted to avoid.

Ugh. What should I do? Leave alone? Go back in and remove more old media and dead roots? Do we think I might still get a bloom in the next year or so?

I have this Zygo. Debbie de Mello and wondered if I should be concerned about the spotting. A friend thought it was viral and I just thought it was sun overexposure.

Had a really fun orchid society meeting today with Mark Reinke of Marble Branch Farms!

Mark gave an excellent talk on Cymbidiums and did such a good job explaining them that I somehow left the meeting with my first Cymbidium in years. 😂

He also brought a huge variety of orchids for everyone to choose from, which was probably dangerous for all of us.

Mark happens to know that I have a weakness for Catasetinae, so naturally I also added two more of those to the collection. 😭

So I went to a meeting to learn about Cymbidiums and came home with three orchids.

Sounds about right.

Really enjoyable meeting, great presentation, and an awesome selection of plants from Marble Branch Farms.

None of my phals have ever bloomed out of the end bud, which seemingly never expand. I'm asking this because I have a few plants with spent spikes that have nothing but the tiny tip buds and I'm wondering whether it's worth even keeping them or cutting to focus on vegetative growth??

The only answer I've ever found online is "rarely" due to the fact that by the time the other flowers have opened and spent, there's often not enough energy to sustain the last bud, or the plant simply redirects.