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Before Lowe's closed in Manhattan, they had lots of bag babies. Usually Cattleyas and Vandas.

I went back to the store and the one I had in mind was gone. The other ones with smaller and inferior shape were still there. Well, I guess I missed out on that one but I'm sure I will see something nice again soon or later. :)

Yeah, I once asked Theresa about international shipping, and she said no. she does have excellent quality plants. Everything I bought from her has been of high-quality healthy plants. Yeah, the first complex looks a lot like villosum. I like the wild look. Speaking of wild look, today I saw...

Yeah, it's highly addictive. The fact that these hybrid seedlings can bloom out so different from plant to plant, one can't have enough! :) I wish I had a stadium sized greenhouse to bloom out thousands of them!

During the growing season, they may actually be beneficial in that they stay wet for a long time. But then once the plants start to lose leaves and do not need as much water, the material can be a problem.

That is often the case everywhere. Trader Joe's in Manhattan used to carry quite diverse selections of orchids like Oncidium intergenerics, Zygopetalum hybrids, Dendrobiums, Maudia type Paphs (but rarely)...

Yep. plus at such a low price, I had to get it. :)

Exactly. Those can be all misleading and should not be labeled as 4N unless actual chromosome counts have been conducted on the said plants.

I wish I lived in Tacoma so I could drive a few hours down to Hillsview Garden and check out (and pick out) their complex in bloom this time of the year! :)

Not bad, right? I have not had spotted complex for a long time. I normally collected green ones. Hope to find some nice big green ones at Dreden show next year! :)

I got email last week about the last winter sales from SVO. Good thing I'm no longer in the US. lol Almost everytime their new list got out, it was time to shop for me. You're exercising great self-control to have accumulated only 8. 😉

No need to change what's working for you. By the way, I don't think one can force dormancy on these plants. They naturally drop leaves and go into dormancy when they are ready. When water is no longer given when the plants are not ready, it can dehydrate them. I wholeheartedly believe what you...

The very first two photos showing white marks on the leaves and the photos of the flowers show typical damage by thrips.

Sweet and fruity. I say ripe banana plus some sort of spice, but I can't pinpoint what spice. Perhaps allspice or clove, but it's a subtle note. Very rich heady sweet scent with subtle note of spice in short. :) Grace Dunn is still a few days away from opening up. I have a Catasetum hybrid...

From a grocery store. For only €12.99 I could not pass them up. At shows, I saw complex of worse quality and without tag sold for much higher. The spotted bulldog has a fairly good size at a little over 6inches wide! Both plants have two new growths. Yay!!

I've heard that fungicide containing copper can ruin Dendrobium but nothing about Phyton. but then I have not had to use the product on any of my plants. Unless you already have, you can always test on one leaf of each plant and see how they react before spraying on the entire plants...

I agree with you. Complex hybrids that bloom out consistently good can also have odd blooming, and such odd blooming (I don't think it's necessarily culture related but rather random occurance) can sometimes vastly different. To be fair, Tom's photo above also looks quite different than WC...

Ok, so can you give a little info regarding how you grow yours and how they went down? That will help me understand & guess the issues you had with your plants better. If the pseudobulbs stay plump, I don’t think there needs to be any watering. The only time I ever lost these plants were when...

Cycnoches warscewiczii SVO 10031 (OMG Giant x Jumbo Super AM/AOS) It had one large flower on its first bloom in December 2022. My neglect almost ruined the plant in 2023. It recovered a bit in 2024 and now in bloom with two large (over 5in wide) flowers. These fragrant flowers are more yellow...

Yes. I have never had any issues with the roots. At this size, it really does not matter as the space of the pot (3inch round pot, so it is quite small to begin with!) is mostly just styrofoam peanuts and the roots and some moss. The sheer amount of the newer roots in the subsequent season will...