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Any idea how to induce flowering with canhii? They are growing well but not blooming. Anybody uses limestone gravel apart from pumice and lavarock? As it is described growing on limestone...

Yes, one of my hengduan order. What temperatures do you have in winter, do you think cold id necessary for them?

Beautiful!

As all the technical terms are similar to the english expressions or derived from latin you should get quite a good guess of Olafs book. The fotos are great. To me it's my new bible... well, half a bible as I'm waiting for the second volume...

Thanks for your observations! I'd have made any bet on point five...

Rick, it were two of four staminodes burnt, now a third is starting. Oz maybe you are right but l like to let them grow as they like, further a upright inflorescence would not fit in my orchid shelves. One stem of my St. Swithin I even had to put a weight on to force it a little more downwards...

They look good! Without orchid shows in Europe it is so hard to get a hand on such crosses... ...hope for next year...

Paph. philippinense has completely opened a four flower stem. Unfortunately the twist of the petals is not what I hoped for. Some of the staminodes turned brown (last foto). Might that be caused by spraying which I did for humidity during flower developpement?

As long sa it stays dry it should be ok. But I'm no chemist...

Wonderful! Waiting has paied off!

Mine blast 3 buds of 4 for years now. It's anoying but at least it seems to be a true one...

Marvelous! Do you have a foto of it's habit?

Thanks all of you! Indeed it is a monster but I have no intention of taming it...

Now it's done, all flowers are open: 4 inflorescenses with a total flowercount of 14. The last pic is for colour without flash.

Beautiful! What kind of self watering system do you have?

In photos they look so tiny,... never would have guessed that size!

Wonderful! especially the cocour. Mine is comming soon but paler.

Wow!

PEOY x anitum would have been my guess,too. Your unknown beauty looks great, congrats!

It is a 40 x stereo microscope. It is an older model with no possibility of taking fotos, I do it just by taking pictures with a cheap camera through one of the oculars what blurs unfortunately the image and laks the stereo effect. You can see that on the foto. I think a magnification of 40 x is...