Here is another Unknown. Not my orchid but rather nice. Phalaenopsis Unknown

Eve, love your phals.

I purchase a few of them per year. They last so long, some of them survive and bloom again.

You may be the right person to answer Kitty's 2006, questions, nobody else has.

Arthur what happened to your phal. pic?

Inga, Click on the green link and it will come up.

All are so pretty, name or not:-)

Thank you Arthur, that`s a pretty one. Reminds me of playing around with a toothbrush and water color.

I thought some more people would share their beauties here!?

Phal. Dawn Treader 'Carmela' x Phal. philippinensis

Forgot to take a picture of this one yesterday and the Phal. lobbii just opened it`s little flower today!

a miniature species Phal. lobbii

Hi Inga, I`m sorry but I can`t answer Kitty`s ID question, there are just too many different ones out there.

Here's Normans Mist

Phal. Sogo Genki AM/AOS

Phal. equestris var. orange (equestris Sunkist x self)

I have more but rarely photograph them anymore. I grow some for businesses in the area. These are some of mine and some photos were taken a year ago.

Jane

Hi Jane, thank you for sharing your Phal pictures. I like the orange equestris in particular, it`s very cute.

Your Sogo Genki looks very much like one of my NOIDs, so maybe that`s what mine is too.

Sorry, the pics are right side up on my desktop, no idea why the program turns them by 180 degrees.

Anyway, this is mama Phal. Be Tris (Be Glad x equestris) and two of her babies. I have had the mother plant for 13 years and 5 years ago it suddenly started to produce a single keiki each year after blooming. The flowering keiki is two years old. I should take the current one off and the mother will most likely bloom and grow the next baby.

Does yours produce keikis as well, Jane? I would like to trade.

"X mystique" is lovely and I like the equestris var. orange. Here is Phalaenopsis Meteor x New Eagle exhibited at the last OS Meeting.

As far as one white Phalaenopsis looking like another, that is a big call seeing there are at least 24,000 registered Phalaenopsis hybrids and quite a few of those would be white.

Lovely, what interesting markings. Somebody was thinking of a meteor shower there, I guess. Thank you for sharing, Arthur.

You guys are putting me to shame. I have become a dumping ground for
bloomed out Phaelies. My Doctor, Baker and Candle maker all dump their
spent Phaelies on me, used to throw them out but they feel better
knowing that I give them a chance. About 1/3 are beyond help by the
time I get them but the rest recover and bloom next spring. My
daughters raid my place and haul them away but I have them in semi
hydroponic hygroton which is easy to take care off so they come back in
good shape. II took pictures of what's left at my place, paying
attention to their
name is a little too much to ask of me. I used to totally ignore them.

Nick

Lots of quality there in trash can Phals! I think they are a bit like Cymbidiums, i should love them more and set up my cold glass-house up solely for them. But I prefer the cold tolerant stuff that grows there.

Down to seven Phals and If I can get them to flower by growing them inside during the winter I'll be happy.

Hey thanks for the colorful bunch there, Nick. I was already wondering, I couldn`t really imagine you not having ANY Phals!

My downfall is the supermarket, I can`t see those poor things sit there in the back of the floral section half dead. So I pik one up for $2 or $3 every so often. If it dies at least I have a nice pot.

No name but this one grew two new leafs and then a new inflorescence out of the center of the plant. I had never seen that before.

Phalaenopsis tetraspis C#1 is known for the variation of the markings so every flower can look different.

This little guy had me wait for a looong time. I purchased the plant with three spikes early last October, it immediately grew a fourth spike but no flowers. Over the winter it grew new leafs and suddenly about three weeks ago little buds developed but only on two of the four inflorescences the others are still dormant. Strange things happen.

Nick, yours look great!

I wind up with a similar situation. Except, beyond the doctor, dentist, candle stick maker, I also wind up with neighbors asking me if I can save their Phals because...their daughter gave it to them, their husband bought it as a gift for Christmas....on and on.

What bothers me the most is I feel guilty if I don't do a good job with these plants which don't belong to me! I feel I spend more time fussing over these plants than my own.

Sort of like a puppy left on your doorstep!

Jane

How do you grow them? Leave them in moss or switch to something else. I have all of mine in hygroton,most semi hydroponic, that seems to work for my conditions.

Nick

Nick,

How's the great phal media experiment working out? Anything surprising?

Thanks,

Bob

Only one died. The one I put in HD insulation stuff immediately died. Must have had some bad stuff in it. All of the rest are doing well to a varying degree. Most are in bloom or spike. The one disapointment is that the one in horse manure is not in spike, I would have loved to put it in my clean-freak daugther's home. The one in water has small leaves but is making new ones and has a spike. The bare-root ones are doing as well as the others.

The one left alone and is still in the original media, tightly packed sphagnum moss, has the largest new leaves. It is doing best of all. Could be that the method is the best or a reflection of the fact that it is the only plant which was not ripped out of it's growing environment and asked to start all over in a new method.

I eventually divided them into 3 groups related to watering. 1) Watered sparingly once a week. 2) Soaked fully once a week. 3) Watered daily or every 2 days depending on temperature. I think you can put them in anything you like, as long as you water them correctly for your media, they'll do well.

I am still getting new ones regularly and my chosen method is a fairly large pot full of Hygroton pellets. Can water it as often as is convenient, never needs repotting and the plants are accepting it as well as anything else. The pot is large enough for many years of growth. The reason I'm not going to leave them in the original tightly packed moss, even though it works extremely well, is that it needs attention. Needs to be watered lightly and needs to be re-potted. I prefer to hose everything down in a downpour of water and not having to re-pot. At the rate I'm getting new ones I can easily see eventually having 100, I don't want to have to give them the time they would need if they stayed in the tightly packed moss. For a collection with a small number of plants the tightly packed moss would be my choice.

Now that the point has been made, I'm going to remove the ones in the weird materials, like crushed glass and put them all in hygroton so they are all in the same watering situation. Bare-root or pot full of hygroton. That's going to happen when I find time. Hillary may be contemplating her second term by then.

The only problem is that they are beginning to occupy too much bench space. I'm going to rig the pots so I can hang them all on my chicken wire wall thus clearing the bench. I think a simple 'S' shaped hook near the top of the pot should do it. A wall covered with Phaelis in bloom should become an eye pleasing feature of the greenhouse and new ones can be added withoout occupying bench space needed for 'real' orchids.

The only uprising thing to me was how well the one in the tightly packed moss did. Since everyone kills them when they leave them in that, I sort of expected other methods to work better. When you think about it though, the people that know most about these plants (George Vasquez from Zuma Canyon etc) choose that method so it really should be no surprise as they would obviously choose the best.

Nick

It was very interesting to read all about your growing media experiment and the most surprising to me was also the water culture. I would have not believed that this plant survives.

About the Sphagnum moss, I do not necessarily change the media after I buy an orchid if the plant is doing fine. So I have Phals in different media and some are still in the original SM. Those get watered about every two weeks and are doing just fine (they are actually kind of relaxing because you know they don`t need your daily attention unlike my fancy Japanese Neos where the only one in spike just blasted two of them and the third one was munched up by a snail @#$%^%#@*&!).

Like you said, you can grow them in (or out) of almost anything just water accordingly!

Here another NOID supermarket beauty where I had to remove the inflorescence in the attempt to save the plant. It still has two healthy roots and two leafs, so it should recover and hopefully bloom again next year.

SO drawn to the patterned and spotted ones, but, don't grow these well as it's too dry, here.

Ex Mystique is much grander in color with that white edge. Love the phal. lobbii, too.

I really enjoyed everyones pics.