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Absolutely amazing! Keep at it. My biggest fuss with paph is that their bud takes sooooo sooooo long to grow. Their flower sheath and bud takes close to 3 to 5 months to fully form. That is a lot of time for mistakes/ factors to cause bud blasting

Yea. My mom says having all my orchids must give me stress. I always tell her not really. It just becomes a habit and habit where the flowers reward you. The only hassle is repotting.

My God this is stunning

When I used to live in Hong Kong we have a decent sized yard 1000sq foot and a rock pond. HK is pretty warm and humid being pretty close to the equator and very suitable for orchids. My dad had an outdoor tent with around several hundred orchids in it, all different types. Then he would hang...

The Chinese tall take-out plastic soup containers are the best for multi-floral, in my opinion, because multifloral tend to have longer and deeper roots. Once it is more root bound it makes it easier to repot to another taller pot. For the holes, I just use a drill. 5 to 9 holes in the...

Depending on your living conditions if you live in. An apt the cheapest and simplest way to raise humidity is to take showers and not close the door. My humidity level usually increase to around 70% near the plants and windows Another option is to just leave lots of glasses of water near...

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I just the tall to-go soup container for my paphs too and they, somehow, grow better in Soup containers than in pots Here are picture of the roots of my paph julius in a soup container.

Not sure if you can view the attached, but this is his Paph list

Does oceanside orchids have a website?

It is really nice. This is its second bloom, so everything is more settled, but I can stop looking all the dorsal. Especially the petals have the nice green and white transition. It is just stunning

Recently acquired Paph superbiens album from Rob Halgrin in Michigan. And it is now in bloom! I really love the color and clarity of dorsal petal pattern

This is very weird. I have been looking at Druryii primary crosses and stumbled on this thread. I am wondering if Wendy every managed to get your Cooksonii to bloom?

Paph parishii ('Dark petals' x 'Jeanie AM/AOS') blooming. This plant got hit with mealy bugs for about 8 months so it only managed 4 flowers, Previously, it hsd 7 flowers. Now that it is free from pest, hopefully next year it will have 5 to 7 flowers. The petals are a dark purple and very...

I am looking for a good chamberlainianum division or just the whole plant :) Trying to do a remake of long lost hybrid

Paph taiwan - a super big boy Paph sanders pride - another super bigboy Paph quantum angel Paph black prince Paph freckles Paph susan tucker Paph wierztianum Paph superbiens album Phrag schroderae taylor He I remember seeing several mark Hasegawa that should be ready to bloom. And bunch of...

Rob has ton of awesome plants. I picked up a few last week. More importantly, He has tons of fun and unique crosses coming out in the future. Those are the ones I am super excited about

Mine is 1 Habenaria Medusa, 1 habenaria dentata and habenaria jiaho. When I say keep some water, I mean like just around 0.5cm of water at the bottom. Would they be okay. Because they substrate I used are a bit more airy and doesn't retain as much water as your substrate mix

Thank you. I live in Indiana and let the plant stay outside. It gets decent morning from the east and then not much light in the afternoon. Is it okay to leave some water at the bottom of the pot? How much water should they receive? Approximately same amount as paph and phrag? Or even more?

I have 3 habenaria at home but they are growing so slow. What are your culture secrets for growing them? What media mix do you use? How much light? Temperature and fertilizer?