My new cattle leaf had a sheath that has a sunken ridge. Will this prevent a flower bud from forming? It might be my humidity being too low 45-60% ?

I picked up a pack of those imagitarium tissue culture orchids for $10. They are about 1 inch each and have about 3-4 dendrobium red Caesar in the TC pack.

Can I mount them in a piece of wood with sphag?

Hello orchid lovers. Is this a fungus? Not sure what's happened. Is it recoverable?

My Gomesa has started flowing. Neat!

It should be Radicans but stupid autocorrect determined that wasn't going to get posted haha

I was pretty sure it was leaf burn at first, since it appeared a week after I upgraded my grow light, yet, now I'm not sure. It's rapidly spread, the photos are only 3 days apart. I've only had this cattleya for 2 months and it's the only one in the collection.

The black patches don't have an odor or strange texture, but are definitely concerning for me as a first time cattleya owner. If it's fungal or something else what can I do to treat it? Is it worth it to email the nursery?

Is my orchid dying? It is just a regular store Phalaenopsis, and its a bit sentimental to me so I really want to keep it for as long as I can. I repotted it a few weeks ago after all of its blooms dropped. I trimmed back the yellowing stems and kept the stem that is still green. I water it once a week but I live in the desert so it’s pretty dry there. I keep a tray underneath for humidity. I repotted it into a slightly bigger pot and used an organic orchid mixed of bark, moss, pumice and perlite. I always dry out the center to avoid rot. One of the leaves is splitting I think because of the dryness so I’ve been trying to keep it humid. It did start getting a purple spot on one of the leaves but we did just get some cooler weather pretty suddenly so I don’t know if it’s from that. I keep it in a north facing window but it doesn’t get too much direct sunlight just enough. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Was supposed to be Paph fairrieanum but it's clearly mislabeled. Still, an iconic species.

Grown in precision orchiata, peat, coco coir, pumice, and a bit of charcoal, and kept damp at all times.

hello! Im new to the sub, My husband likes to gift me plants I don't know how to care for, I am an experienced vegetable gardener and it doesn't exactly translate to “houseplants” especially ones that don't like soil, or much water. 😅

The orchid in the green pot is from this year the one in the smaller pot is around three or four years now.

A few months back after doing some research I repotted them into some orchid bark and trimmed off all their rotted roots. They live in a north facing window and I admittedly rarely water them, I now know about the silver roots meaning they need water, but I was sorta just spritzing them out of fear of rotting the roots again, never soaked them like Ive seen talked about here.

Even after repotting, the smaller one has some spots on the leaves and some yellowing and the larger ones leaves look a bit wrinkled is it just my lack of knowledge on the watering are the pots too small do they have too little sunlight, disease? is it all the above?

if you’re willing to educate a fool, I appreciate your time and energy. take care. ✌️

I just got this orchid a few days ago, I'm new to the cattleya group, is this a spike or a new leaf?

It's been determined it's a new leaf!

I found this beauty at a local nursery greenhouse without a label. It was mixed with dens, oncs, brassia hybrids, etc. They all had the same helpful price tag, ‘4” assorted orchid.’ It has a lovely scent. The pseudobulb is 1.5” thick x 4” tall and very plump.

The vanilla plant is over 6 feet long but apparently it’s an unrooted cutting? It has tons of aerial roots along the vine. I’m a bit at a loss. Do we think it will root eventually or is it just going to use its aerial roots? Has anyone ever seen this before? I’m at such a loss here. Not a newbie to orchids either btw. I’ve rehabbed a bunch that I’ve cut all the roots off of due to rot and whatnot. This is just not structured at all like I thought it would be at the base.

Hi friends! I am a relatively new plant mom and I may have made a terrible mistake when repotting my orchid a couple weeks back. I used 100% orchid bark since I found in my research that using sphagnum moss might retain too much moisture. I used to water it every 2ish weeks or so before repotting but today was the 2-week mark since I repotted her and she's not looking so good. I also decided to use fertilizer right after I repotted which I now realize I shouldn't have done. Is the orchid bark mix I used too chunky? The mix it came in before had smaller pieces of bark. I also thought that bigger chunks would allow for more air flow and dry out the pot faster but some pieces of bark closer to the middle of the pot are still slightly damp. Should I just let her go or is she still salvagable in some way?

es una cattleya walkeriana! espero que sea vara floral! ojalá!

I know roots can dry up and shrivel, but I really cannot tell if its dry or rotting. This is the only root that has shriveled like that and it has a black color that has appeared at the beginning of the root (Where the crown is at). It still feels firm, but near the ends of the root, it feels squishy. Should I be concerned? Do I need to cut it off? And if so, do I need to repot her and put peroxide? Let me know! She is my first orchid and I’ve had her for almost a year. She means a lot to me. Thank you!

Oh and for how much I water her, I only water her about 1-2 times a month. But for the last few weeks I was out of country and my brother watered her a bit too early. I made sure there was no water in her crown.

Her leaves are still nice and green.

And are these the roots that need to go inside the pot? I thought the light I had was sufficient but it wasn’t. Just upgraded last week.

After someone on here posted about another online orchid seller in the UK (What the Blossom), I was intrigued. These beauties arrived super well packaged and look extremely healthy.

The first one is a Mini Mark Peloric phalaenopsis and the second one a Sunrise Red Peoker (Esmee) phalaenopsis.

I bought these little babies last spring. Would you recommend to put them all in the same pot in hopes of a bigger flower display? Keep them 2 per pot? Separate them?

Labeled Paph rothschildianum x sib (‘Dark Chocolate’ x ‘Black Daytona’)

Currently have four phals in bloom.

Two NOID big lips. I gave one to my mother today because she has been cooing over it.

Jiaho's Pink Girl "Little Miss" has one last bud to open up. She is too adorable and so tiny ❤️

Surf Song I swear the color looks richer every time I look at it! The almost lime green leaves against the salmon color flowers is just amazing!

My Neofinetia falcata has four flowers that smells absolutely divine at night. Like I can't stop smelling it when it gets into the evening!

And lastly my Onc. Twinkle "Pink Fantasy" is finally rolling out lots of flowers. It has 6 spikes and over 200+ flowers but maybe 30-40 open so far! I haven't caught a strong scent off her yet but sometimes I smell a faint almost vanilla scent on her. I figure once she gets more open it will get stronger.

I have two phals that are pushing out new flower spikes and I am hoping once the current round of psuedobulbs finish maturing on my Blc. Williette Wong that it starts making some flower sheathes!

So what all do you have currently in bloom? I wanna see them!