Nice! Lots of health there - looks like you are going to have quite a crop of flowers
Olya

Thanks. My opinion is that in a cold-winter climate, anyone who has shelf space and room for 2 T-8 shoplight fixtures, and is willing to do routine watering and care, can do well with phals. I have about 100 orchids, but my 30+ phals make more flowers per square foot than anything else I grow.

Wow!

Good growing, holly, and not one inch wasted, either!

I agree about the "flowers per square foot" thing-- my feelings exactly. Why I love them. They're gratful little things.

Yes, and there's much to love about a plant that will spike every year without fail and produce many large perfect flowers. They look fabulous on my antique chinese tables. If these weren't so easy to grow, they'd be the holy grail for orchid people.

I have a similar 'phal farm' going on under my ancient T12s, Holly and I totally understand about the more flowers per square foot thing. Hopefully you'll post a picture of all of them in bloom - they are quite fantastic plants, and they last so long! I'm planning on expanding my phal collection this spring (I have a lot of noid purples which I think I shall trade away for more interesting, fragrant and colorful hybrids/species....esp. after seeing Brooke's pictures!!). Anyway, great growing!

Very nice set up and nice group of phals as well. I will have to expand my phal collection as well this spring they are easy to grow and out of all the orchids I grow they do produce the most show out of all.
Darwin

I tell myself I'm going to get more disciplined and mark the so-so NOIDs for give-aways, and then one of them will have more flowers or larger flowers than ever before, and I can't give it up. I just buy more lights. The only reason I can be persuaded to give one up is if it gets neglected and gets scale. If it doesn't respond to Bayer systemic insecticide, out it goes. All the others stay.

How fun! Get a chore done and enjoy the orchids at the same time!

Sharon

Beautiful, healthy plants! You'll have lots of blooms to enjoy.

Sheila :)