r/miniorchids

Another great miniature species phal in my indoor greenhouse. This particular orchid was a birthday gift last month and it came potted with a double spike! I carefully mounted it to some cork bark with live moss and it looks like it is finally warming up to it's new surroundings 😊

This Neofinetia Falcata “Furan” seems to like it here.

Located in Berkeley, Ca - I bought this at a plant nursery. It was under a cloche with some carnivorous plants and quite pricey for such a sweet small little thing. I'd like to identify in order to provide proper soil and water needs. Thank you.

This is my first miniature orchid bloom and was my second orchid I have ever mounted. This is Phalaenopsis finleyi x Phalaenopsis Freya's Sakura Rain and I believe the first bloom for this cross! I got it from Peter at Big Leaf Orchids. He recommended mounting it. I love the little spots and white/pink color combination on it. It’s grown indoors around 66-70F with east-facing frosted window for lighting and misted a few times a week, saturated maybe once a week with distilled water + half strength fertilizer. Humidity ranges from 40-60% in the room it is kept. A very easy plant to grow at least in my conditions! Flowers are very cute and dainty!

I got two of them, but the other one’s buds didn’t make it to bloom, the temperature is one day in summer and one day in winter recently. So I’m excited to see they finally in bloom. Hopefully there would be more flower next year!

Also it is interesting to see how the tongue of them really look like human tongue, especially from a side view.

No scent, it is quiet and cute!

My lepanthes calodictyon x tentaculata. The small flower of the world.

Hi All! I have bought this mini phalaenopsis last month in a garden center. It had mites on it and I have treated the issue successfully, although most of the flowers have dropped. The roots were also rotting so I has to act fast. Then the remaining roots also started rotting :( so now there is barely anything, but these three flowers, holding on steadily. At least I have stopped a downward spiral. It also has a terminal spike which I didn’t recognize. The situation is at least contained, and I am trying to hydrate the plant through the leaves and the remaining two small roots. It is sitting on top of clay balls in a ventilated pot. What can I expect here? I wished I brought the plant back, but I guess a lesson for the future to buy them from better places. I have a dendrobium and a vanilla plantifolia from a specialty store and they are thriving. Can you please advise me if there is anything more I can do to hydrate and help root growth?

The first one already formed a bud, super tiny bud. It is an original from Taiwan, Haraella retrocalla. A species with very strong and pleasant scent. This guy in my hand is a matured plant, it is so tiny and cute.

Orchid species: Coelogyne shilleriana

Looking for suggestions on "micro" orchids for a small, enclosed terrarium. I was inspired by a YouTube video, and while I have moss, I thought it would look neat with a micro orchid. The container is round, about 8in/20cm high, and 4in/10cm wide and they would be mounted on wood of some sort. I know a lot of the tiny orchids have an air flow recommendation. I would set it up with air space around it and ths terrarium won't be cluttered. See picture for my inspiration. (Created by u/6spadestheman a few years ago.)

I have on hand a small dendrobium ecuagenera rainbow, bulbophyllum (can't recall the type, super small), and a tolunmia sylvestris that could all be divided. Are there other species you think would do alright in that kind of set up?

ETA temps: My temps range from cool to intermediate. About 72⁰F/22⁰C high in the summer (68⁰F/20⁰C in the winter). Down to 62⁰F/17⁰C summer (54⁰F/12⁰C winter).

The Bulbo is purple, not he green ones. I thought they were Bulbophyllum jingdongense, but the flowers don’t look alike.

Earth-ware clay cook at low temperature. I fill them with leca pellets, sphagnum and little pieces of weeping pine bark.