He has always been a sickly plant. Got it from my mother who was fed up with him. I had him for 1.5 years now, never more than his two leaves. Now is the first time he has a flower and I'm beyond happy 🥹 the leaves look worse than normal though 🥲
I don't even remember the cultivar anymore, here's a beautiful Cattleya that smells amazing.
My Amazing Thailand next to this Cattleya has a sheath so I'm hoping there would be buds inside 🤞
Someone told me that this Orchid may have a virus? What do you think? She just bloom and I'm a little sad if she has virus. She's a Pot Dick Smith 'Dark Beauty'.
I was given this plant around 3 years ago and it has grown a lot of leaves since then but I have never seen it flower.
It is currently hanging on my balcony where it gets plenty of light, would it need a rest period with lowered night temperatures?
Honestly surprised me. Not a huge phal grower but this one held its own. Received last November I believe put under grow light. And already blooming half a year later! Seem to last pretty long so far. And two spikes on first bloom. Only one flower wilted away. But other than that still looking good.
Removed immediately from the sphagnum plug. And Potted in chunky bark, leca, pumice probably equal parts or so. Watered when dry. Very light dose fertilizer focusing on all nutrients.
Lightly spicy floral scent noticeable upclose.
Seems very beginner friendly!
Just showing off some blooms
My cutie bloomed this past weekend while I was away. ❤️ Nice surprise when I got home. Smells like lemon cleaner.
I posted several times about my orchid that suffered severe root rot and only has 3 viable short roots left. She still looks dehydrated of course, but she's having a new leaf! She's alive! The media still feels humid when I dip my finger in so I'll water tomorrow probably hehe. I'm proud of her! 🥹🙏
This is at Planters' Market Singapore and the variety of orchids here is just amazing. I ended up buying some for myself but it was so difficult to pick from everything there!
The title says it all, I’m incredibly upset and frustrated. I literally JUST BOUGHT this orchid yesterday, it’s not even 24 hours in my care.
I just got off a long ass shift and was sitting on my bed, my boyfriend was aggravated about something our roommates is doing that’s keeping him from using the bathroom.
He set his clothes and phone RIGHT next to the flowering part and when he went to grab his stuff (after I told him to be careful and watch my plant multiple times) he freaking knocked it over and it shredded my one of two stems and completely out out of its pot.
I was planning to repot it on my day off tomorrow anyway but this just genuinely hurts my heart because I was so excited about getting an orchid and have been doing research for a few months and it just gets knocked over and feels destroyed/hopeless.
I definitely know a few roots were ripped out in the mix and I’m left with some good green ones.
What the hell can I do to prevent it from loosing all its flowers immediately and what should I do about the stem that just got ripped up?
Sorry for the book of an explanation I’m just genuinely so disappointed and upset :((
Going great with semi hydro setup.
Hi, yesterday I bought this beautiful phalaenopsis and it has an amazing lemon scent, the lady at the nursery told me it was possibly a hybrid, and I want to know if it has a specific name.
If anyone knows anything about this orchid, I would love to know. ✨✨
Thoughts? It’s been 3 leaves since I got it in 22. I repotted it with better media and trimmed all the rot a couple years ago. I spray it with an atomizer mister every morning because I live in perpetual 10% humidity. About once per week I spray it with Organic orchid food.
i live in the middle of nowhere alabama and i decided to stop by lowe’s today just to pick up some supplies and i found these!!! this lowe’s has only ever had phals and maybe a dendrobium once every 3 months.
Honestly I did not research whenever I got this mini orchid from Walmart while it was on sale, for a while it was doing really well but after a while it got- misshapen.
Does anyone know why it may look like this or what exactly i did wrong
I think I’ve had this bellina about a year now, it grew a bud earlier this season but it blasted off so I was shocked to see it trying again a few days ago and today…. Viola!! It’s full on display!! I got it when I started getting into fragrant orchids. This type is alleged to have a citrus-y smell but I think it smells like a bell pepper 😂😂 as you can see, my dog is way less excited about it than I am!!
Wtf are these!!? I was watering my orchid and noticed these little bugs on one of the stems. I’ve never seen these bugs on any of my other plants/orchids and am worried about them spreading!!
Eight flower spikes, and somehow the hardest part is still the waiting. Every morning I check to see if one has finally opened, and every morning they’re just a little bigger. I’ve waited months to get to this point, but now that the blooms are so close, patience somehow feels even harder.