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The one I gave to my friend ( Sue's surviving husband) in bloom. Obviously this is not going to be the best one from the grex, and it has a horn which I suspect will fix itself as the plant grows up. Still, what I'm particularly impressed with is the depth of pink. It's really quite delicious...

The biggest thaianum x Hellas, now Paph Sue Omeis, with three spikes starting. This is about 1yr & 9 months from flask.

All this talk of food is making my plants hungry lol.

Your henryanums have a season? Fancy that...

Let's look at the problem from a purely economic perspective: If Xavier is right, it's a ten-dollar fix. If he's not, you've done nothing but feed your plants. Compare that to potentially spending multiple hundreds of dollars on fungicides and I know which one I'd try first.

The heart wants what it wants.

Norito Hasegawa did it more than a decade ago. Here's one of James Fang's from Facebook circa 2016: Very pretty, but smaller than a standard SS. It's going to be a long time till we go through 1-2 more rounds of two-step breeding before we see flowers that truly look like an album roth, I think.

Platanthera clavellata

Oh I didn't get it awarded, that was years ago.

Deflasking some Micran Magic made with eburneum:

I think it's a few things: - I showed it to a friend who only dabbles in orchids and he said: "That looks high-maintenance." It's a good point. Henryanum does not " look" like it should be easy. - It's very easy to keep alive, but getting it to bloom & bloom well demands you observe its...

The second one from the last OZ batch. Not as good as the other but not bad either. NS 9.1, pw 2.4, dw 4.7

It may be your indoor lights are producing too much green spectrum to render color correctly. Try a sunlight pic.

Aw, sorry. May as well peel the bud open and confirm ID.

Germinated, too small to replate. Wait till you see leaf primordia, since they're not terribly crowded.

In good conditions, each flower lasts a month.

You need no luck to bloom malipoense. Just therapy...

I can, but I won't.