New blooms in the garden.....
New blooms in the garden.....
Lovely GF, we've missed them - been nearly 8 months
Nah, the weather has been extremely hot and dry here. Its not normal. The plants are suffering...
Thanks for this thread. It actually made me try a few orchids too. I never had the green thumb and flowers did not well with me. Until I tried orchids. It seems to me they are impossible to kill and almost impossible to stop from blooming. They probably like the south facing window. The green/yellow and the violet I basically cooked. They were in a glass cylinder for display. But it was a very bad idea to put them in a south facing window. But as soon as I took them out of the cylinder they bounced right back and started blooming again soon.
When the blossoms of this one are new, they are really greeen. After a few weeks they shift towards yellow.
The huge white is a miracle of endurance. First it bloomed without interruption from early December 2017 to early October 2018. Then it had new blossoms early December 2018 and is looking good now, March 2019.
"don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"
Took some new pictures of the new blooms from my Orchid Garden.......
My other garden ...... all dried-up and dead.
At least, the fruit trees around the house are thriving.....
Custard Apple
Pomelo
Durian (flower buds)
Citrus
Some pineapples
And my coconuts.....
Life's so simple.....
I am so unlucky that if I fall into a barrel full of D*ick**s, I'd come out sucking my own thumb!
I love your orchids takeovers..... They are gorgeous.
New blooms in the garden....
A wild bloomer. (Only blooms once a year.)
My newly-developed rambutan fruits.
A thriving baby mangosteen fruit in my yard.
Looks like you've got most of my favourite fruits in Thailand covered. I like Pomelo as they are not overtly sweet like most tropical fruits, sometimes i just crave fruit with some bite, like Longkong too which have a kind of grapefruity twang.
Nice to see you back posting Grace.
I have a five-year old longkong
tree. Heard that they don't usually bear flowers if planted in PI soil coz of the climate. Palawan climate is diff than the other areas in PI, so hoping for the best.
You've got a real green thumb GF. Nice pics.
I have a question to the resident Orchid expert.
One of my orchids is driving an offshoot, or whatever they are called with orchids. I am tempted to try and cut it off to raise it. Any tips?
BTW off topic. One of my friends bought a pomelo in the supermarket here in Germany. He brought a seed to the Philippines and the tree from it is now bearing fruit. A huge tree.
That depends on what sort of orchid you have, and the "offshoot". If it was a dendrobium or Phalaenopsis they will often have a "keiki" form along one of the flower stems, which you can leave on the plant until it has formed its own root system, then cut off and repot. It will be an exact clone of the parent plant.
Or is it just a growth shoot from the base ? You would usually just leave that as it is, until the plant is big enough to divide in two. Have you got a pic ?
It is a Phalaenopsis, the left plant of the three.
I will try and get a photo of the keiki. They sprout of between two leaves of the mother plant,
Interesting about the hormone treatment. My wife puts egg shells on the substrate. She insists that it has to be shells from raw eggs, not boiled. This seems to indicate to me, if it has any real effect it may be hormones from the egg white still on the shells, not the shells themselves.
I got photos of the two. Actually there seems a third one hidden between the leafs of the mother plant but I can't get to it. It is barely visible in the second photo.
May be difficult to cut them off. I will at least have to wait a while yet.
Phalaenopsis usually produce keikis in their blooming stalks if you cut the end part of the flower stalk before the flower dries.... An odd trick I've learned from avid orchid gardeners here. They seem to work for me as far as hybrid phalaenopsis are concerned. For the native ones that produce smaller pure white flowers, I normally cut-off a portion of the flower to make it produce a fruit/seed which I'd harvest and place in trees when dry.
What’s happened to graceless fawn? Not been around in a while.
Chang puek, a wild orchid
Dancing lady
Last edited by misskit; 25-01-2020 at 09:54 AM.
Some blooms from my garden. Net is awfully slow so will post more next time.
Last edited by GracelessFawn; 04-04-2020 at 04:32 AM.
Early Morning Surprise....... A bonus from the garden!
A Lilawadee/Frangipani grown in a pot at the front of the house.
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