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It's a looker for sure! Well bloomed.

Bloom opened up on Wednesday for one of my sargentianums. This one is from the 'Really Red' x self flasks that @eaborne sent out to OZ. Need to take better pics in the day light since under the lights is not ideal.

Delightful!

This is what mine has done. The browning is where roots are pushing through on a lower growth. I am going to let the upper growth grow out and probably split next spring. Cannot wait for it to bloom.

David, I have a FS 3N kovachii 'Tesoro Morado' x besseae 'Rob's Choice' AM/AOS, it is climbing big time and the roots from the new growth are "attacking" the older growth next to it. I am guessing that 'Rob's Choice' really likes to climb. I believe there was a recent post on Instagram of the...

Yes, untreated flasks. Of course, though statistically minuscule. Perhaps others can chime in but there's been a fischeri, a besseae and also a Barbara Leann that were confirmed as spontaneous tetraploids, though the BL might have had a 4N parent.

Though not in nature but in a flask... that's what Orchids Ltd. was thinking about their kovachii 'Tesoro Morado' clone. There's also the toothy clone ThienNgo Le has kovachii 'Sweet Valentine' clone.

I had something shipped from NC to NY earlier this year. Was supposed arrive in 2 days. Four days later it showed up in NY but at a sorting center 3.5 hours north of the city. A day later the package went to Massachusetts. Then after a week finally showed up. I am just glad it wasn't during a...

In Cribb's Phragmipedium book it is mentioned that EYOF colchicine treated kovachii flasks that had yet to bloom (book published in 2017). So who knows if there are any 4Ns yet? Based on timing, this would lead me to believe they would have been treated flasks if Popow are selling multiple...

Looks like aged snow mold. Not sure any negative effects other than being unsightly. I have seen plants that were raised in Hawaii but sold here in New York having this issue.

I am glad you mentioned the thrips, I was speaking to another experienced grower and they thought it unlikely to have false spider mites. So I reassessed and saw a thrip. I have now sprayed my entire collection in the two rooms and keeping an eye on the third room. I have noticed a severe...

Congratulations on getting married, moving, and new job. Well bloomed!

That was with a 25x. My watering time has doubled having to checking for mites. Hopefully we all emerge relatively unscathed and better growers.

MacGyver-ed it, I used a jeweler's loupe and put it in front of my phone camera. These are just nasty little buggers, just in the fact they can go undetected for a period of time and their damage may be attributed to another critter that would likely not be treated with a mite specific...

Round 2 was last night after the hurricane/tropical storm. In total, I have treated 21 plants and a compot. Looking at all the plants this evening I saw mites on three plants, two of which had only 1-3 on them. Unfortunately my multi-growth Paph. Dollgoldi still has a lot of these guys. I am...

Wow!

Ugh, @southernbelle not again! Not thrips, thankfully. That's a close-up on a Paph. Dollgoldi. I had a small issue with a thrips earlier this year... Ebay. Have not lost any blooms/spikes in the mite infested area. Azamax is every 7 days spray and is a systemic. My understanding is Azamax...

I feel your pain. The downside is that you have to soak the crowns so you will need to have that in mind when treating to prevent crown rot and it is not an instant kill so there will be a few days of more damage.

Happy to help. I will update when I treat again this week. I have been trying to get them as I see them, they seem to be hanging out outside of the crown. Other than the worst infestations which were two multi-growth plants I hardly saw any today.

At least until I win the lottery...