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Very beautiful coloring in the flower. Love it.

Welcome to Slippertalk from Montreal Canada. A smallish greenhouse will soon be quite crowded. So many wonderful plants out there, too little room. I grow plants with few or no roots in straight New Zealand sphagnum moss. This works for bare root plants as well. I use leca in the bottom...

Welcome from Montreal Canada. My windows do not have much sunshine so I have grown under lights for many years. Currently, I am using LED lights and am very pleased with the growth of the plants. As I move around this site, I am very impressed with the growth of their plants and flowers that...

Welcome. I also grow under LED lights and am very pleased with the plant growth. I no longer put some of my plants outside in the summer as I do not want to bring any insects back into the house in the fall.

Here is a tip I read somewhere, not sure where. It helps me decide when to water the plant. Initially, I was going by the weight of the pot--if light, time to water; if heavy, wait. Now I use a wooden barbecue skewer in the potting mix. I only have a few plants so this method is feasible...

Very useful information. Thank you very much. I have 4 paphs, 1 mature plant and 3 seedlings. When the mature plant flowered, I really did not know how to stake it properly. So, I really appreciate the question and the replies.

Beautiful red color and a very nice shape .

I found this to be an interesting thread. Do any other parvisepalum species or hybrids produce runners? I have Paph Lynleigh Koopowitz and Paph Fanaticum. The second growth on Paph Lynleigh Koopowitz is from a runner growing about 5" away from the original growth. The Paph Fanaticum is not...

Here's the link to the article about phal bellina along with nice photos: https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/phalaenopsis-bellina.26624/

Orchideya wrote about how he grows his 3 phal bellina's and phal. violacea in a post on Aug. 1, 2012.

Welcome from Montreal Canada

This method works for me too. I'm glad to read that it worked for 8 weeks as we were thinking of being away next winter for 3 weeks. Now I feel more comfortable leaving my plants "home alone". The only things I also do is spray the plants with physan 20 2 days before we leave, water well the...

I was away for 2 weeks in March and this system worked for me. I grow my plants under lights and several plants share a 1 foot x 2 foot tray. I sprayed the plants with Physan 20 on the morning 2 days before we left. I watered the plants well the morning of the day before we left. On the day...

Congratulations. A very beautiful flower. Gorgeous color--I love red cattleya flowers.

Hi Trevor. I am from the Montreal area; nice to meet another Canadian grower. I revamped my orchid growing area in September 2023. I am now growing on a 2 tier light garden using LED lights purchased from BotanicalLED--2 48" Full Spectrum Plus "Optimum" LEDs on the top shelf (lower light...