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Last lot and I was really taking pics randomly, not trying to capture the entire show. :)

Such tempting eye candy! That yellow and white one near the end is something I would love to have! Yellow and White are my lucky colors for this lunar new year! The orchid society show here is in March. I am hoping to be able to attend. But I know I won't be able to spend a lot of money, so I can only hope for maybe one lucky purchase. I'd love to see that yellow/white one!

Nice choices and what a haul! How many orchids do you have in your collection? I have killed more orchids than I would like to admit including to cats last year - I got them as seedlings and they were doing well and looking like they had become blooming size but then got a fatal fungus while vacationing outdoors. So I am adopting a wait and watch before I get too many and kill them all. Right now I just have 4 phals, a milt, two nobiles and the newly acquired kingianum.
What do you grow your kingianum/hybrids in? The one I got yesterday is sitting on top of a styrofoam peanut in moss from what I can tell. I am resisting the temptation to repot until the flowers shed.

Pop mama, eye candy indeed. Good luck with your hunt next month.

I haven’t counted in a while but I guess about 150. The only kingianum hybrid I have ( Star King Irvine) is in regular coarse orchid bark. I have 2 species kingianums , a white and a purple, that I can’t seem to get to flower. I noticed Waldor had most of theirs in sphagnum moss so maybe I‘ve been growing mine too dry.

I would consider the milt. and nobile to be kind of difficult to grow so good job if they are growing for you.

I have kingianum and grow them in clay pots with lava rock. They get a lot of water.

Dens grow best crowded in the pot. This one is fragrant but you need to put your nose close. I have lava burst. It likes being mounted.

James, 150! That's some serious collection. The nobile are a recent acquisition, one of them with buds. Let's see how it goes next year. The milt I have to say is a gem, multiplies like a weed and isn't bothered by much. It was spectacular last spring.
Harvey, your kingianums are doing really well. I can aspire to grow mine to that size someday...I guess you are growing them the way they grow on rocks in nature. I will decide when I repot which way to go. I don't think they would survive in moss for very long. Mine is a species called 'madam.'

Thank you, Getgoing, for the many, lovely photos. There has been such a "famine" here lately..

Milties are one of my faves.

Ingrida, what milts do you have? Pics please. I want to get more milts. This one is from a trader Joe. It had about 5 psedobulbs and two long spikes, all for $17. Now that's what would get me to loosen my purse strings.

getgoing, If a plant does not like clay pots with lava rock or mounted, I don't grow it. It requires daily watering. It works for me. What I do is not typical. But I have success.

Was that kingianum marked $18 with a round sticker. I could swear I picked that one up then put it down. I went back later and it was gone.

That is a nice Milt. I like them a lot, just never been able to make them happy.

Yup, I got it. :) It was at the last counter at the back on the right. There was another marked 15 on the opposite/front counter/shop sitting with a bunch of mini orchids but it was just a couple of buds, tinier plant though they were supposedly a nicer lighter pink color.
I try to keep the milt cool but give it enough light sun. It stays out when spring arrives until it is too hot. It did skip one year of blooms but then compensated with a bunch of large bloom. I also like that it has a strong fragrance in the mornings (unlike phals which have none). The fact that each psedobulb creates 2 4 psedobulbs in an year makes it a winner in my book (unlike temperamental cats that died on me after a single season of vacation outdoors).

That's funny, I went to that table first but decided I wanted to look at the other tables before I bought anything.

Funny thing is, I did the same thing. Saw it, and then said let me see what else is there before I decide, half thinking of it would still be around. :) but it wasn't really such a catch that I would have regretted if someone else took it.

Sorry, Getgoing. These days I'm only a "Lurker", with a couple of grocery store minies.

Used to go to most orchid shows within 200 miles.

I love pansy faced milties .

No worries Ingrida, lurking is fun too. We all live vicariously in some ways.

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I have mine still coming in March and I have bought kingianums every year for the past at least 6. I just can't seem to get any to re bloom too. I wish I knew what I was doing wrong. I have enough to give each one an entirely different habitat and yet not a one re blooms. I don't get how the vendors can bring so many in bloom like that unless they are ordered before hand then brought to the orchid shows from special growers to sell.

I have a couple on a cold window sill south facing I water when dry often tht gets very cool at night and warm by day.

I have another that I keep on my very cold porch on the very dry side hoping to encourage blossoms that I water once a month or so, nothing.

Then more in a wamer room with lots of light and water frequently, nothing

Then another I keep outside until almost a frost and still nothing...lol

If anyone has the key to blooms, please share))))

I frequently fertilize them all summer long....I also use rain water.

What a bunch of beautiful orchids you all picked up for yourselves. Congrats. I love going to these shows in the middle of winter. It brightens my day and very therapudic. That is where my tax money goes, or at least part of it.

Mike

Kingies and 'aggrevatums', aarrrggghhh!!!! My nemesis'.

Bob

Bob. I hear you. I look at all of mine every day for some sign of blooms, nothing.

Those freezing to death, those starved of nutrients, those fed, those watered well, those left to go bone dry and those left in a very warm room and the greenhouse. Nothing. lol

Sorry, haven't posted for a while. Have you got a set of the notes written by the late Wilford Neptune?

Those "pink rock orchids" are easy and tough. There are stacks of them growing in the shade house.

Temperature range in the yard during the last year in Centigrade 0 min 45 max.

What is a zero degree minimum degree day like?

10 hour day length, the sun will shine and the temp will rise to about 15C to 17C. Humidity will be low because the arid westerly wind will blow during the day.

Guess that the trigger to flower is the slight warming up as winter is ending.

Average winter temps min 7C max 17C.

That zero C temp is the coldest I have ever recorded.

Den. Delicatum is easier than Den. kingianum.

No matter where you live there will be the impossibles!