One of my Orchids are blooming...............

[mtdoramike]

and two others have set buds on them. Here it is the second week of Feb and I still have grapes on the vine.

 

[Terry57]

Wow...the orchid is gorgeous! Is that outside???

 

[MomtoPercy]

Pffft! That is such a lame flower. I'd be embarrassed to post pics of it!
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Slinking off in an envious rage....:jumping40

 

[MikeyTN]

My orchids are going into bloom right now too....I have one orchid that's not doing too well and I don't know why. It's dying I think.....But it made a little keiki so I'm gonna try to save that.....

 

[mtdoramike]

Yes, It's outside hanging near my back door. Mikey, have you tried to re-pot the Orchid and cut back some of the dead or old roots? I also use miracle Grow plant food on mine and give them a good douse every month. Also, I know my orchids can not handle full sun at all so they have to be shaded or else the sun will burn them up.

 

[drlisaort]

Oh wow, I love Orchids and to my very joy mine are blooming too!!! I just got one white flower that opened today with tons of buds and my others all have buds as well. How fun!

 

[Betrisher]

Me too! The new Catt I got just last year has blessed me with not one, not two, but three gorgeous spikes! I've never grown a Catt before (erm - that should read 'never kept a Catt alive before') and I'm so happy about this! The flowers are a light purple with red stripey column. Now, I'm hoping the Oncidium and Vuyltsekeara might flower too. Fingers crossed.

We've had a rotten hot, dry summer this year and all my orchids have shown stress from it. The poor dendrobiums' canes actually shrank at one point! My orchids are hanging in my jacaranda tree and that provides lovely filtered light. I have a tree fern nearby which shelters the orchids from the hot afternoon sun and, mostly, that's enough. This year, though, I've had to hang a bit of canvas in the tree to keep the heat off my plants.

The ones that really bother me are the common-as-dirt epidendrums. The blasted things will not flower no matter what I do to them! I had them in shade and they didn't flower. I moved them to full sun. They didn't flower, but shrivelled a bit. I put them in filtered sunlight. They didn't flower, but have grown amazingly robust and dark green (clearly not enough sun). Whenever I put them in stronger sunlight, they yellow and shrivel. Hnnnnnh! I am not a mind-reader. I wish they'd let me know what they want!

Aside: about five years ago, I was dropping Mum off at the local hospital. There were epidendrums flowering in the gardens and I happened upon a tiny keiki that had been knocked off and then walked into the parking lot on someone's shoe. I took it home, put it in a container with orchid compost and a lid and it grew. I planted it out and it's now about six feet long! I have no idea what colour flower it is because it has never flowered for me. I'm a bit over epidendrums.

 

[TessieB]

Impressive flower!

 

[mtdoramike]

I have some white one's and purple cats that are about to bloom as well. I had hoped they would all bloom together on or before valentines day, but no such luck. If they had, I would have searched for a neighborhood boy who was trying to woo a sweetheart and cut them off and made a nice arrangement for the fella to give to his heart throb.

 

[Betrisher]

My new Catt:

 

[RavensGryf]

Beautiful orchids guys

I tried plant keeping for a bit before giving up... I failed I wasn't interested in the basic stuff, but couldn't keep the exotic species alive no matter what despite reading and asking tons of questions. A complete plant newbie lol.