bud

This huge bud escaped my attention until I moved the plant because it was blocking my view. The bud somehow grew in my blind spot. How daring of it lol. Yet despite its sneaky ways, it was still under the watchful eye of its ivory buddy. As before, we are now in the bud name game. Anyone can...

I looked around my collection and saw more buds for our readers here to guess what they are. Fun times 😂 … First one is relatively easy hehe. The third one might be a false hope for a sheath. Let the games begin!

Let’s continue this fun bud guess game. I have 7 buds from low sheath to almost mature. Let’s see if anyone can guess all of them right? Hint: all species 😉.

Some buds popped out this week. Exciting! Two black leucochilums, two vietnamense (one of them a dark select from OI that has blasted 2 years in a row 🤞) and the scandalous niveum album (passed at judging last year with drama). There will be a block party for April judging! At least the...

Hey all, First off, I'm new here, so hello!! I've been a hobbyist collector and breeder for the past few years. I'm an undergrad student about to go into a graduate program in medical anthropology, and orchids keep me afloat (and happy)! Second, I recently ordered a Hilo Leopard from Brookside...

With autumn fast approaching, I wanted to know— do multifloral paphs need a drop in temperature to set their buds? I’ve heard of complex paphs and Parvis needing it but couldn’t find much on multiflorals aside from a brief mention of its effect on getting rothschildianum to bloom. My conditions...

Is my Eumelia Arias putting out a bud? The growth emerging from the crown has some light striations on its sides and when viewed from the top, doesn’t look “creased” like new leaves do.