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Thank you for thoughtful and thorough your response! I’ll hold onto these flasks for awhile then.

Can’t wait!

I attempted to space out watering over several days before, but with my current schedule it’s been really easy to get behind and tracking which groups of plants have/have not been watered has been an extra mental task I don’t want to deal with lol. The routine that has worked for me is having...

Thanks for the input, Ray. I agree that the lack of precision with dosing is a cause for concern. I also considered the mechanical workaround, but unfortunately I don’t have the space to install a drainage system in my current setup, and I don’t want to lug anymore buckets around than I...

I’ve been a die-hard fan of K-Lite since I started growing orchids in 2020, getting consistent growth and flowers over the past few years. However, mixing fertilizer up in a bucket and dunking one plant after another has proven to be a time intensive task— 4 hours on a weekend morning! I grow...

I finally got my sterile technique down and recently sowed my first Phrag seeds from the following crosses on P668 and coconut water: (schlimii x manzurii) x self longifolium var. album x pearcei pearcei x longifolium var. album I have a few questions regarding germination. When can I...

I love this color. I wonder if using a Green Hornet with an album longifolium parent would make for an even softer pink or even white flower?

Looking on OrchidRoots, I don’t see any progeny produced by Vipanii. I don’t know if that’s because it’s a sterile grex, if efforts to continue the line was overshadowed by roth x brachy hybrids instead, or if the grex is just really THAT reluctant to bloom; regardless of the reason, I tried...

It was one plant, if I remember correctly it was 2-3 growths when I received it

“interesting” is a nice way to put it lol. The First bud to flower reminds me of Bulbophyllum in weirdness.

I bought this plant from @orchid527 back in June 2020 when I was first getting into keeping orchids. After nearly two years it has become a clump of a plant and decided to flower! The first one came out kind of funky but this second one is really lovely to look at.

Second time flowering this plant. I like it, even though it threw a funky flower. I suspect I was underwatering when it was opening, I think I was out of town that weekend.

For National Orchid Day I attempted to make a display in my bedroom with all the slipper orchids I have in bloom right now 🤪 from left to right: Phrag. longifolium var. album, Paph. Deperle (delenatii fma. Dunkel x primulinum fma. purpaurascens), Paph. niveum var. album, Phrag. Columbianum...

My thaianum just opened, it’s nice but not quite as round as yours:

What a nice pale flower!!

Hi Dave, welcome! I recently moved to Manhattan. I highly recommend attending a Manhattan Orchid Society meeting when you can. They’re a great group of people.

Just a few update photos—the new growths that came in white got some color back after the addition of Epsom salts, but they remain striated.

I’ve read a bit on the use of aquarium water for watering orchids and the general consensus I’ve seen is that it is no substitute for fertilizer. However, what about its use as a base for fertilizer to be added to? In a heavily planted, cycled tank, I’d assume that NPK values would be quite low...

Paph. Payakka Kodkod (concolor x thaianum) purchased in-bud this past summer (July 2020): Same plant, bloomed again January 2021 while carrying a seedpod: Thoughts? When it was blooming the second time around the petals were so cuppy that they needed a little nudge to allow the flower to...

Question about my plant— it’s growing in semi-hydro and I noticed some dry roots that don’t look great. The bottom leaves have been browning as well and I’m down to 2.5 leaves— I should probably cut the bloom and repot right?