Phalaenopsis from post "What a stunner!"

7th November 2012

This beauty of a Phalaenopsis is this flowering, and more buds keep growing.

I have polinated three of the flowers, one with polen from the same plant, and two with polen from two other phals. The seed pods are growing nicely. This will be a new experience and experiment, to see if I can actually grow  some orchids from seed. I know it is a big challenge, with results way ahead in the future, if I get any results at all, but it's worth the fun of trying. I don't plan to grow the seeds in vitro, because I don't have the necessary equipment, so I'll try the old fashioned way, cutting a root from the mother plant and sitting the seeds in small terracotta pots around the cut-up root. 

I'll add a pic or two of the developments of this phal soon.

New Orchid Supports

 Here is the trellis I made with the help of my brother in July.

There are more orchids on it now than there are in the picture, but it looks fantastic!!

By the side of the trellis, on the floor is a stand I bought from a garden centre. It holds 9 plants. They are all orchids exept for the plant on the top. There I put a plant called "Little Fish" (peixinho) and the other has beautiful pendant flowers which the hummingbirds like.

Now I just have to put the epidendrums in a nicer pot. As they are semi-terrestre, I plan to put them together in one long terracota pot.


More photos soon.