Melissa, you are doing a good job with those Vandas! It should get easier now, since you can just hose them down once, or twice daily in very hot weather? Pretty bloom on the Patricia Low!

hawkarica said:Very good job with the Vandas, Melissa. Your lovely Papilionanda Patricia Low used to be a Vanda, didn't it?

Jim

Yes it did. I have no idea how to pronounce the new name. It is a tongue twister.

I'm getting braver with the Vandas. I ordered a few more and they came in today. Then I saw photos of mature plants...uh oh...I may have to build a much taller greenhouse. LOL.

Jim, can you look in OrchidWiz for V. Chindavat? Motes lists the parents as V. Kultana Gold x V. Seeprai, but RHS has no registration record. Do you find the same information?

It was a freebie goody in my box.

My V. Jairak Heartthrob is currently over 8ft. From top of flower to ends of roots. I might get brave and top it one of these years. Really brave!

8' is a lot of plant, Elaine. Perhaps my wife will allow me to grow my two large Vanda in our sunroom (if it ever gets built ).

Melissa, OrchidWiz says: V. Chindavat (V. Lenavat x V. Sunray) and gives the year as 1978.

Jim

hawkarica said:Melissa, OrchidWiz says: V. Chindavat (V. Lenavat x V. Sunray) and gives the year as 1978.

Jim

Yeah. Emailed RHS and their webmaster said the site was down last night. That is what I got today. It looks like the tag has a mistake. It shows V. Chindavat (V. Kultana Gold x V. Seeprai). That is registered as V. Motes Butterscotch. So I either have V. Chindavat or V. Motes Butterscotch.

I'm going to email Motes to ask them to check and let me know. Thanks for your help!

Finally a few days without rain! I even went outside this morning and fertilized all the orchids that I moved onto the porch back on the 26th of July...they haven't had a drop of water since that day!

And a few blooms, some old, some new:

The Stan. is ready to open any day now (it's the second inflo.)



My avatar orchid Enobi 'purple splash':


The NOID Dend.'s that have been blooming forever:





I don't know if I've seen this one (another NOID) bloom before:

Nice show, Patty. I can't wait for the Stanhopea to open. I've been looking through my Miltassia photos looking for one that matches your NOID and ran across this Miltassia Golden Spider 'Copius'. What do you think?


Jim

Patty, I love the pretty Dens you have flowering so nicely there!

The NOID Den. is a bit similar to my NOID. One difference is that the sepals on mine are mostly white and the petals are lavender (if that's the right color name).

Beautiful orchid photos everyone!

My Mom's Vandas are beautiful and she swears she doesn't have time to water them everyday and they are in full sun. I think the difference is, they are all attached to her "dracaena fragrance" (or corn plants) and the roots are all over the plants.

The monsoons have returned after a two day reprieve. It's just pouring out there right now.

Jim

Same here, Jim. We are under a severe thunderstorm warning and it is noisy and gusting winds.

Same here but my orchids are loving the rain

It is bone dry around here!!

Well, it's nice that we had a little drying time anyway. Will tell Marsh to turn off the irrigation again I guess. Like most non-gardeners he is oblivious to the weather unless he's out sailing.

I've had the irrigation shut off for a month or more. The rain quit about 2:00 PM today, thankfully. The forecast is calling for rain this weekend.

Jim

Arg, Marsh said we got Nada. Typical of this summer. Nice Dens, Gigi. I do hope mine hold their blooms til I get back.

Elaine I hope they do. My Dens' blooms usually last longer than a month.