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Even thou this is a forum for Bananas i thought since we had this thread going on the Vanilla Orchid we could expand it to all things orchid but only with permission from are dear readers i have many articles that you all mite find interesting and of course i would defiantly be interested in any info pictures you all would like to contribute yes i know theres literally 410000 sites on orchids but nun so personal to my hart as this one so with your all's permission I'm going to sorta change the topic of this thread unofficially to all things orchid and I'm going to post some additional articles next up is

Dendrobium Anosmum: a particularly fragrant and lovely Orchid featuring beautifully Pink or some people describe as lavender (i think Pink) pendant flower blooms

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Dendrobium Anosmum



Heres something to wet your taste buds

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We're going to do this? I have the 2009 International Orchid Expo in Quito stuffed away....

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Great Paulo! I will contribute! I just hope I won't go crazy and get back into orchids.

I just want to share some pix of my favorite genus - the Paphiopedilum or Slipper Orchid. I am a collector of the selected forms of the species. I have never kept any hybrids as I find the originals very special. I love the tassellated leaves which vary from plant to plant and I can never have enough of them. At one time I have almost all the known species of the Paphiopedilum with a total collection of 12,000+ individual matured plants. That's how crazy I am about them. All the pix are plants I own.

Paphiopedilum barbatum - Lovely leaves with a lovely flower. This comes from the highlands of M'sia.


Paphiopedilum bellatulum - A compact tassellated leaf plant from Thailand. The petal is thick and fleshy. This one has good petal form.


Paphiopedlium concolor - A hot growing tassellated leaf compact plant from Thailand. Good rich golden yellow and petal form. It can have as many as 4 flowers at a time lasting to more than 2 months.



Paphiopedilum exul - An oddball of a green strap leaf slipper orchid which grows in full sun. Flower is hard like plastic and glossy. Bloom last for 3 months. Comes from the limestone islands of Southern Thailand.


Paphiopedilum godefroyae - The most popular Slipper Orchid species in Thailand. Beautiful tassellated leaves. This is the cream colored variety with maroon markings. Good petal form.


Paphiopedilum lowii - From the highlands of M'sia. This is an important plant in the history of the hybridization of slipper orchids. Petal span approx 16 inches.


Paphiopedilum verajuteanum - A rare mini all green strap leaf orchid from Thailand. It was discovered by my late and dear friend Krairit Verajut who was the President of the Paphiopedilum Society of Thailand. This plant is named after him.

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Tog, I see your Paphiopedilums, and raise you the Phragmipediums, slipper orchids from my neck of the woods. I collect these, and have 5 species at the moment, represented by about 40 plants. I've also got a few Paphs, the wartier the better. Like you, no hybrids!

Phragmipedium bessae


Phragmipedium x, voted Best In Show at the 2009 IOS


Phragmipedium caudatum


Phragmipedium hirtzii

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Very nice! :02: Beth, you sure are lucky to be able to yank them off the bushes. Our paphs are like near extinction here cos they are all zapped out illegally. I started collecting the paphs cos of their leaf pattern. Got 1 plant and that was it.

I like some of the phrags but it's a waste of time growing them here. I did try. They just slowly shrink away. Kinda like a magic show, now you see, now you don't! The Phrag kovachii is very interesting.

I only keep the hot growing ones now and I don't have many. I am down to about 1,000 plts.

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"I only keep the hot growing ones now and I don't have many. I am down to about 1,000 plts."

Tog, I know you're comparing this to 12,000 plants previously, but only another addictive personality could say they are down to only 1,000 plants. I love it!!
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Yank them off the bushes?!?! Good god no. The Phrags are all CITES I protected and nearly extinct. I purchase TCs from Ecuagenera.

To jump from one odd structure to another, here are some Masdevallias. Can't beat them for colour! These are mostly warm-hot growers; photos from the 2009 IOS. Masdevallia is related to Dracula, another funky-shaped flower. A rather astounding number of them were first described by Ecuadorean president Luis Cordero, although the genus is named for a British botanist. Go fig.

Masdevallia davisii


Masdevallia lehmanii (I think...)


Masdevallia macropus


Masdevallia hertzii x coccinea, Best in Show for Natural Hybrids


Masdevallia coccinea


Dracula simia

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Oh, I thought finders, keepers? Cites1, what Cites? :ha::ha::ha:
The closest I got to Masdevallias and Dracula was a book I bought. Somehow, no one brought them into M'sia. I like them alot, they are like the equivalent to our tropical Bulbophyllums except some of the bulbos have huge flowers..

Ok, I want to show some of the foliage orchids from here. I am a big sucker for nice leaves. All pix are plants in my collection.

Paphiopedilum lawrenceanum - This is the reason why I fell in total love with paphs!


Bulbophyllum reticulatum - This is more of a terrestial found growing on the litter of the forest. It has pretty nice red colored flowers.


Collabium simplex - Another terrestial with small white flowers. The leaf surface is velvety.


Goodyera hispida - Small terrestial from the Jewel Orchid family.


Macodes petola - Super Jewel Orchid with a thick velvet leaf and gold veins.

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We've got some interesting foliage orchids as well, mostly cool growers from the genus Pleurothallis. I'm kicking myself for leaving this one where I found it.

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Those Masdevalleas are beautiful, Lorax! And Tog, wow...I never believed so many nice leaves in orchids. All mine are the generic green. Something more to admire in them.

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Howard, it's an undying love for me. When the new area of my nursery is done, I will load up more of the tessallated leaves species. Glad you caught my drift cos after writing, I thought people will think I am an arrogant sob! :ha:

The Jewel Orchid group is absolutely lovely. I just love the gold veination on the leaves, I find it hard to believe nature having its way like this.

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Ok, here are some of the micro-bloomers. These orchids are from Pleurothallis, and have flowers no larger than 1cm. There are close to 1,000 species in the genus, so I don't normally even try to ID them further than that. The defining feature of the genus, beyond its miniscule size, is that it blooms directly onto the leaf rather than producing an erect or pendant raceme.

I have about 500 plants of various species right now - they're small and they don't take up a lot of space in the orchidarium. Pleurothallids are warm to cool growers. The first 3 plants are in cultivation, and the remainder are wild ones; these are the most common cloud-forest orchids, although they're also among the hardest to spot unless they're blooming.

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wow I'm gone one day and look what your Kidd's have been up to! I'm so pleased! beautiful pictures hers one of my Bulbophyllum Ann BucklBarry this was taken from the first place winner at the 2007 NY International Orchid show these Pictures were takin last fall sorry about the quality this was befor i got my new camra




one of my slipper Orchids is in bloom im going to go take a picture all post it in a few

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here are the pictures of my Slipper Orchid this is one of the plants we get from the casinos after they get done blooming they just throw them out are club gets them for free or next to nothing so we never know what they are until they bloom any one care to guess as to which on this is? I'm particularly proud of this one its my first slipper Orchid to bloom for me

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Pauly, wow. Now I want to grow Bulbophyllums.

Your slipper orchid is a Paphiopedalum. Tog will know which one; I can't keep them alive here so I don't grow them.

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why can't you keep them alive if i can in the middle of the third driest place on earth i would think you could to just bring them inside the house they don't need much light just a bit more then a phial i will confess i use moss to keep them damp most people in wetter climates would have no success using that Medea as its to wet i often use things that are quite a bit out side then normal type of Medea for obvious reasons

yes i have to say the Bulbophyllum is one of my favorites she blooms 4 times a year for me she has 4 new bulbs on her so I'm probably going to get as many as 8 flower clusters this time around but i think after that all have to divide her shes out grown here pot by over a year i just wanted to see how much flower power i could get

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I don't know what the problem is with me and Paphs, really. But it's like Tog said about Phrags (which I have no problem growing) - I just sit helplessly and watch them shrivel up and die.

On a more positive note: More orchids that I can grow! It's a grab-bag this time.

Cattleya maxima - edible flowers, if a bit bitter. Wild, growing on a tree stump (Loja)


Caucaea alticola x mimetica - at the Quito Botanical Gardens


Rhynchostele spp - at the Quito Botanical Gardens.


Habenaria spp - wild, growing in an extinct volcanic crater (Pululagua)


Sobralia alba - wild, growing on the side of the road (Mera)


Xyllobium ornatum - wild collected; blooms once every 10 years. (Loja)


Odontoglossum crispum - wild, growing on a tree. (Nambillo)


Beloglottis costaricensis - Quito Orchid Expo


Otoglossum spp - Quito Orchid Expo

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If you wana keep bulbos, go for the species, they are out of this world in size, shape and colors.

Oi, I don't keep paph hybrids, all I can say is this one is a cross using a Paphiopedilum callosum Vini(for Dark coloration) and probably a Paphiopedilum lawrenceanum(for the big dorsal sepal). The Taiwanese did tons of these hybrids. By the way, at my elevation, I can only keep the hot growing ones alive! I gave up on the others. Beth, as you say you like the warty ones, they are all cool growers, like the Paph wardii, Paph argus and Paph sukhakulii.

Paulo : I think many people are missing this as an orchid interest promo Thread. Maybe you can PM one of the Moderator to change the title to like; Attention : Orchid Growers!

Beth : From now on I can only enjoy your pix as all my old pix are in hard copies and I don't think I want to scan them!

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thanks tog yes i had considered asking MH to change the thread to a more general title

as far as Orchids go i haven't found any thing yet that i cant keep alive now flowering is another thing all together i'v not ever had a Catt. bloom for me but i know its because of the lower light levels i have in the house here in NV they build them like caves to keep the heat of the sun out this is another reason i simply have to get that Orchid/green house going soon!

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can't seem to find MH theas days so i MSG Chong to chang the threads tittle
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Tog im leary of growing speaces Orchids i dont have ideal condtions and well as far as bulb. go dont forget over hafe of them smell like roten Meat so i think all just stick to the easy to grow hybreds with the prity colors and nice sweet sents besids rember there vary costly for me to obtain here in LAS VEGAS most of my Orchids are throw aways from the consinos and dont cost any thing or are vary cheep like mabe $0.25 i have yet to get an orched in the mail that cost less then 50.00$ US they aways charg me for phyto thats 40.00$US plus shiping and handaling i have gotin smarter and found some growers that are in the US so i dont have to pay the phyto any more but theyre still outragous

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Pauly, you should know that you can severely abuse most Catts and they'll actually bloom more for it... Try tying one to the outside of your house on a side that gets half-sun, and then just throw a bucket of water on it twice a day (am and pm). Betcha it thrives. Caveat lector: I don't grow hybrid Catts, just species. The hybrids may be fussier.

My pic of the C. maxima a few posts up is of a plant growing on a bare tree stump in full sun in the Ecuadorean desert. Temps go up to about 45-50C (113-122F) on a regular basis, and it doesn't rain in the dry season, which is 8 months of the year. I used to throw water over it at night, but not on any regular schedule. They bloomed at the height of the dry season.

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Nice thread, y'all! This is just a quick note to let all previous posters that Pauly requested me to change the title of this thread to this current one.

32 years ago, I had over 150 orchid plants. They got wiped out in the winter of 78 when the plastic wall of greenhouse broke and the plants were covered with snow that blew in.

Keep your posts coming!

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I am showing some of the lesser known Phalaenopsis species from Malaysia. I like them because they are very free flowering year round and easy to care for. All plants shown are from my collection.

Phalaenopsis violacea - The National orchid of M'sia. Highly fragrant! This is my 20+yr old plant which is a selected form with hi-green on the petals and good form. This plant is highly regarded in its natural form and for hybridization.


Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi is a delightful plant which can take on bright light and heat. I like this species a lot because it blooms year round with with multiple spikes. I used to have 400+ plants tied to the various trees in my garden and it's joy to see them bloom all the time.The plants below have been with me for more than 10 yrs and still blooming crazily!

Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Selected Dark Red - This is a very rare jungle collected plant which has very deep red coloration. It is a 12 yr old plant with multiple spiking year round.


Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Alba - An Albino form of this species. Hell, Alba's cost a bomb and I was too busy collecting them to realize it! :ha:


Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Selected Form#1 - This particular plant is an extremely free bloomer with multiple spikes. The uniqueness of this plant is the clear area on both the lower petals.


Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Selected Form#2 - This plant has good markings and form.

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As a rule hybrid orchids are easer to grow then species orchids iv always been under the impression that catt's wouldn't tolerate the hot dry conditions of NV but now that i think about it you mite be on to something are orchid president keeps here catt's far away from the high humidity pouring out of here equipment I'm sure the reason my catt's don't bloom is the low light i have in my house I'm going to try easing one in to the morning sun and we will see! mabey all get one of the maxima you mentiond
its quite butifull catt's have always been my true love nexst to roses alfter all Orchids are the oldest plants on earth and if my Bananas will grow here mabe my Orchids will to

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Same, same here Paulo. I can't get most Catt species to bloom as it is too humid. They just grow into huge messy clumps. When this happens, either a dry spell comes or cease watering, then they will bloom. In Thailand cos of the heat, they bloom like crazy all the time....sigh....:waving:

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Hey orchid lovers
I need advice please. Hope I will explain this right. I have one Phalaenopsis wich lost flowers some time ago and I cutted stalk till thirdh pup. It starts to dry now and it is all yellow.
What to do? To cut it all or? Why is this happening?
Regards
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Picture, please! With that we'll be able to tell you what's going on and what you can do to stop it (if anything).

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Can these help?



What to do?
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What beautiful pic's. I too grow some orchids, I only have about 15 plants but am always looking for more be it of a different color or species. The pic's on this thread show some real beauties, thanks for sharing.:woohoonaner:

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theres nothing much wrong with this orchid other then phials need to grow in sphagnum peat moss not wood bark try re-potting it to a good quality if you can get 4 star rated moss thats the best it last for years the reason the roots look all brown is because of dehydration wood chips don't hold enough water for phials they like to be damp all the time. when you repot it just take a vary clean knife and cut off all the brown dead roots not the green one! also if you try turning the plant ones a week it wont grow all lopsided toards the light like yours is doing however this type of growth pattern is permissible in competitions

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Nothing wrong with your Orchid at all, Ante. I'd repot, as Pauly suggests, into moss, and you can cut the stem back entirely since it's not producing new keikis.

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After looking at this picture closely, does it look like it is putting out another flower spike?

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Didnt notice any.
Spike was all green till 2-3 days ago. Im having trouble finding moss here, is there any other good soil for repoting?
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What is that just to the right of the smaller leaf on the bottom sticking straight up? I have had Phal's planted in bark and if thats all you have then that's what you use. Repotting after flowering is best and then make sure you put the bark up to the crown and only go a size bigger for the pot and water accordingly. I water once a week in the spring and summer and a bit less in the fall and winter and fertilize almost every time with a weak solution (1/2 the recommended amount) Your plant looks healthy, just trim back the old flower spike, it will rest some and start again if it hasn't already. I am not an expert, but have been growing orchids for about 7 yrs and haven't lost one yet. They really arent all that fussy, so relax and enjoy!

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Thank You!
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I did not mean to suggest that they cant be grown in wood chips many people grow them in it. i simply meant to suggest that moss makes for a more even and less trouble free Medea phials like to be most at all times so the moss helps to achieve that gole in there native invorments the tend to grow low on trees closer to the bass were theirs quite a bit of moss growing naturally they thrive on many of the chemicals that mosses produce there for its just logical i guess ultimately it mainly depends on how moist an inviorment they are in and how much time you as the grower want to spend taking care of your orchids i have quite a lode of things to take care of particularly in the summer when i have to water 2 times a day so i like the convenience of moss
Orchid Growers have every kind of opinan in the world so do what works best for you i notest the dry roots thats why i sujested the moss for you i think it would help that problim

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Heres my little collection of orchids that are flowering now.
i also have dendrobium with white smeling flowers and epidendrum.

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Beautifull collection penJ!
I hope my phal will bloom again one day.
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Hvala Ante.
Your phal will bloom in mid autumn if you give him enough fetilizer and plenty of indirect light. :lurk:

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Aerides houlletiana x sib




In this pic only half the buds are open. It was absolutely stunning when they all opened.
And the smell is the most delicious thing you have ever smelled in your life.

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nice picture Jared
I'm trying to upload a power point presentation of the 2009 Taiwan orchid show but i think that format isn't excepted so all try and change that so you all can see it was spectacular this year

Also thees are not Orchids but i thought the Brussels begonia display was nice so here are some pictures of that

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Here are a couple from the Smithsonian Exihibit Orchids through Darwins Eyes celebrating his 200th bday from earlier this year. Sorry pics from my phone so not great quality. was an amazing exhibit though.

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the white ones were about 6" if I remember correctly

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My mind is trying to convince me to move to a more temperate climate or buy a bigger house, "What To Do, What To Do" I guess there are worse addictions, now I just have to convince myself when winter comes and all must be moved indoors. That is one beautiful orchid Mediahound!!!!!!

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Just repoted two phals I have found on discount in local nursery yesterday. Pruned all dry and rot roots added new supstrate and hope that I did it good. Fullish of me that didnt take any pix for comments and guid lines from you folks. Wish me luck with them and if they go well maybe my first lady will let me go for few more naners:ha::ha::ha::ha:
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Ascda. Rio's Telstar 'Sunset' HCC/AOS

Margie:waving:

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Beautiful, I love the color!!! :waving:

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Hey orchid lovers,
I have my first orchid fower from this morning:
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Short info:
June 2009

And this morning:
January 2010

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I feel just great, WOW!
Thank U all for helping me out with this one. There are many good people still arround here, U know!:ha::ha: