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Hello, Thanks for the info. I will now have to go sterilize everything. Black Rot was my suspicion as well. I expect it all over all the plants from the Florida supplier and the stress in transport just gave it opportunity. Many different plants have been housed in the ceramic pot for display...

Hello, I need your opinions to make up my mind whether to complain or not. My wife got me an orchid for Father's day. It was shipped on the Tuesday before Fathers Day and opened on Fathers day having spent several days in the box. On opening, the the plant looked perfectly healthy but dry so I...

I am using lava rock and so far so very good. Kanuma would be worth a try.

With a name like "Chen's Ruby" I expect a red flower. Though, the red pattern on yellow is enough to get it a like. Do these need a cool period to initiate flowering? Do you have whole-plant photos that give an impression of the size of the plant? Any fragrance? Very nice. Good growing!

You are most fortunate. Good luck! And if you can get seed from it I would be keen on a flask.

Wow. Where did you get the seed from?

If it has leaves I expect it will send up a new growth. You are very fortunate. I envy your WC "Ind" FCC.

I think most of these old growths are dead anyway. Culture conditions have to be really optimal for these back-growths to survive.

Sever the old leafless growths from the leafed growths long before repoting. If they are truly alive and healthy they should resprout and then when you repot you will have two healthy plants. One of the things I learnt from my Paph mentor, Faan Kruger, was that if you sever the new growth from...

When I moved from IA to TN I repotted everything into aircone pots with a bark mix from Orchid Inn and the plants took off in the new medium. But I was growing in a small room with high heat and humidity. When I moved the plants went into a much drier, cooler basement and the plants began to...

Option 3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8452054/ Moss actively kill off plant pathogens.

Awesome collection. I am very envious. I had a serious mealy bug issues that took several of my plants -- or perhaps it was the neem oil that killed the plants -- and I have only one left. If I can nurture it to flowering I expect I will again lose my mind and start buying more Neos. Good...

As I ponder this further it appears to me to be something of a fool's errand. The genetics of Paphs would seem to work against the concept unlike with Catts where the intersectional hybridization seems to improve flowering. I should just focus on collecting fast growing cultivars with shapely...

Thanks to everyone who has responded in this thread. The responses have provided an interesting way of looking at the problem. It seems to me that Paphs will flower once they have achieved large enough size (enough resources). This is apparent when considering some hybrids that seem to flower...

The flower is appealing but the name is an abomination.

Very impressive! I did send you the larger seedlings though. Did you provide supplemental heat? My largest seedling is just over 2 inches wide. The Safe-T sorb seems to have done the job but not as well as traditional bark. I was nervous about fertilization though. How did you fertilize yours?

I still have some in Safe-T Sorb: And some have been potted up: I don't think the little ones still in SafeT-sorb will catch up. Some were totally overrun by the moss and some just died. The large seedlings have done well. and are holding up well in lava rock. I held off on up-potting the...

The shift from free-flowering to fastest-growing is a productive change of subject. Maudiae The Queen is supposedly triploid and this could drive faster growth, explaining its more free-flowering habit. But that many complex Maudiae types behave much the same way would speak against triploid...

A good question. A plant that has no fixed blooming season but will flower whenever the new growth has grown enough to support a flower.