Orchids 2025

[Justin]

Starting fresh from my 2024 thread...

https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/orchids-2024.56338/

This should be another good year for blooms. It looks as if there will be fewer rothschildianums flowering this year, but I expect to see some good quality.

Anyway, will get started with a couple Paph malipoense. These successfully opened exactly 6 months after the plants showed buds. I am very pleased I got them to go the distance.

Two more are about to open after these. I love the raspberry fragrance!






Here is an Orchid Inn leucochilum I posted in my previous thread, now in full bloom. Yes there is one spot on the lip The flower is nice, although it didn't open quite symmetrically. (EDIT - I think photo may be too big to show, but you can click link)

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Here is a group of 4 haynaldianums. These are mature plants from the OI cross 'High Color' x 'Ron' that I have grown for many years. They often do 5 flowers per spike. My best one isn't in spike yet this year, but I believe some plants from this cross are award quality.








And finally here are a couple pots of a really cool Paph. gratrixianum. These are from a division from @tenman -- a very easy plant to grow which blooms every year with multiple spikes. This year there are 5 flowers on 2 plants. (Edit, click link for photo)

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More to follow...

 

[Tom-DE]

Very nice, Justin. your malipoense clones have good markings.... flower size?

 

[Justin]

Very nice, Justin. your malipoense clones have good markings.... flower size?

Thanks! The bigger malipoense is a little over 11cm NS.

 

[Tom-DE]

Thanks! The bigger malipoense is a little over 11cm NS.

Is it OI cross? The flowers should get bigger as the plants mature...
They hate to be repotted or divided...mine is still mad with me but it will get over it.

 

[Justin]

Is it OI cross? The flowers should get bigger as the plants mature...
They hate to be repotted or divided...mine is still mad with me but it will get over it.

Yes from an OI flask. Spiderweb x Sam's Choice I believe. It took a long time to get them to bloom, but they are nice chunky plants.

 

[NYEric]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Ozpaph]

nice bold spots on the haynaldianum

 

[Djthomp28]

What a great way to kick off 2025

 

[lori.b]

They're all spectacular! That haynaldianum is really something. How long is the inflorescence on your malipoense?

 

[mrhappyrotter]

Starting fresh from my 2024 thread...

https://www.slippertalk.com/threads/orchids-2024.56338/

This should be another good year for blooms. It looks as if there will be fewer rothschildianums flowering this year, but I expect to see some good quality.

Anyway, will get started with a couple Paph malipoense. These successfully opened exactly 6 months after the plants showed buds. I am very pleased I got them to go the distance.

Two more are about to open after these. I love the raspberry fragrance!

Here is a group of 4 haynaldianums. These are mature plants from the OI cross 'High Color' x 'Ron' that I have grown for many years. They often do 5 flowers per spike. My best one isn't in spike yet this year, but I believe some plants from this cross are award quality.

Yay! Malipoense is my favorite Paph species. I mean, hangianum is stiff competition, but malipoense has a slight advantage from being easier to grow and bloom (in my conditions) and by virtue of having the most beautiful foliage of the genus (though there's a lot of very tight competition there as well).

One day I'd like to buy a flask of malipoense and grow it out so I can have a massive garden worth of malis. For now, I appreciate that my longest lived plant is currently in spike so maybe I'll see it in bloom by May or June (fingers crossed).

I've also got a haynaldianum in bloom, though it's on the way out. My plant came from SVO. It's nice, but I don't think the color on my plant is as vibrant as on your plants.

 

[Justin]

They're all spectacular! That haynaldianum is really something. How long is the inflorescence on your malipoense?

Thank you. The malipoenses' inflorescenses are around 40 cm.

 

[Justin]

Yay! Malipoense is my favorite Paph species. I mean, hangianum is stiff competition, but malipoense has a slight advantage from being easier to grow and bloom (in my conditions) and by virtue of having the most beautiful foliage of the genus (though there's a lot of very tight competition there as well).

One day I'd like to buy a flask of malipoense and grow it out so I can have a massive garden worth of malis. For now, I appreciate that my longest lived plant is currently in spike so maybe I'll see it in bloom by May or June (fingers crossed).

I've also got a haynaldianum in bloom, though it's on the way out. My plant came from SVO. It's nice, but I don't think the color on my plant is as vibrant as on your plants.

They are honestly worth growing for their foliage alone!

 

[GuRu]

Wow Justin, the year 2025 starts from your side the same way as 2024 ended ... with a lot o f lovely flowers ... I like them all but the bunch of P. haynaldianum is special.

 

[Paphman910]

Such beautiful flowers! You should be called the Orchid Wizard!

 

[My Green Pets]

Now that i have a new place and more space, i fully intend to have a paph tent. I LOVE gratrixianum. Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[Tom-DE]

That haynaldianum is wonderful...For multi-floral Paph, I only have rothschildianum and sanderianum, and a couple of hybrids, they are all mature plants and take up a bit of room...I like multiflorals but If I add more multi-floral Paphs, I need a lot more growing space. For now, I will just enjoy yours and others here. Thank you for sharing! (like NY Eric always said.)

 

[Justin]

First two roths of the year. Jamboree Zebra x Perfection, and Sam's Best x Rex.

The Jamboree Zebra x Perfection is blooming on a small plant, but I love the dark color!

Fun fact the Sam's Best x Rex is the plant pictured in my forum avatar.

 

[Tom-DE]

They look so compact! Well done!

 

[emydura]

Nice Justin. The first of many, I hope. Your Sam's Best x Rex couldn't be more different to mine. They are nothing like each other. Did you say previously that this plant was not growing well? My clone of this cross will flower later this year.

 

[Justin]

Nice Justin. The first of many, I hope. Your Sam's Best x Rex couldn't be more different to mine. They are nothing like each other. Did you say previously that this plant was not growing well? My clone of this cross will flower later this year.

Thanks David! Yes this plant has struggled although it was my one keeper. I had three of these plants from Sam. They had a range of characteristics, but were all sibs. One was red with more of the CE x Borneo side. The other two were more yellow gold like this one, but they all had the Rex dorsal. I believe yours is the same cross as mine and also shows a lot of Rex. If I recall yours is one of the best.

If you step back and look at all if them they are all what one would expect with normal variation from from a (CE x Borneo) x Rex type cross.

This was all decades before Sam's labeling problems, so I have no reason to doubt them.