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Hi all, Quick question. Does joining the AOS give you access to all the AOS award data? Their website is tremendously unclear on that. --Stephen

Hi Stefan, I've got a liemianum that's been in continuous bloom for several years now. I'd be happy to send you pollen if you'd like. It's got a NS of about 10 cm with a dorsal width of 4 cm. Here's a photo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zApFHnz7rSsWuRdK8 The only flaw with this bloom is the...

This variety of callosum is known for developing to specimen size especially quickly. The growths tend to pack together, but develop perfectly normally. I'd recommend leaving it alone and watching it spread like wildfire. You should have a great plant in a few years. Your blooms look typical...

I've always gotten quality stuff from Kelly's Korner and they have them: https://www.kkorchid.com/pots-and-containers?pi=2 I got some about a decade ago and they were nice and sturdy.

Don't think the wife would approve of me bashing a hole in our brick wall.

Right now it's two flowers on two growths, so no selfing yet. Maybe in a couple years when it reblooms.

Did you see any purple blooms? I'm wondering if this bloom just has its expression of yellow suppressed. The normal brown coloration may just be a mixture of purple and yellow.

Here's the staminode. In most photos I've seen it's solid yellow, but there's very little yellow in mine:

Just bought and hung a quantum board for the top shelf. Experiments are fun!

That's the weird thing - it opened up purple. The bloom in this photo is only about a week old and hasn't changed since opening. Huh, I didn't even notice that. But yes, the umbo is distinctly green whereas the others had solid yellow staminodes. I'll take some close-ups when I get the...

Another bloomed this year. It's distinctly purple rather than brown like its sibs:

There's a kovachii in the NCOS display. My first time seeing one. Very exciting.

I'll be there! Dunno exactly when. I leant 3 plants for the SOA display, too.

Thanks! Looks like you nailed it.

Hi All, My wife and I recently took a vacation to Costa Rica and I managed to spot a grand total of 1 blooming orchid in the wild (although I saw plenty not in bloom). This one was in the cloud forests of Monteverde in the mountains around 5,000 feet. It was growing as an epiphyte about 50...

Hi all, My wife and I visited Costa Rica for a week for some ecotourism and to get away from cold and dreary Maryland. A private orchid garden had these for sale as souvenirs: And there were even some for sale at the airport: I was surprised to see flasks being put into the hands of...

Are you looking for surviving divisions of the hybrids that were made in the early days of orchid hybridizing? Or are remakes of the early important hybrids fine? The surviving divisions will be significantly more expensive, but they have the history behind them.

Huh, never heard of it but it looks cool. Is it worth going to for the average backyard gardener?

Books on such a specific topic (and catering to such a niche market) tend not to be printed in large numbers. As such, they tend to be expensive when they come out. And if they turn out to be popular, the new copies sell out relatively quickly and the price gets jacked up on the secondary...

Beautiful flower! Paph. appletonianum. Paph. cerveranum is a synonym and falls well within the normal range of variation for appletonianum. (lumper here :D)