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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Tim Harberd on February 13, 2020, 11:13:39 AM

Title: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Tim Harberd on February 13, 2020, 11:13:39 AM
Hi There,
   I grabbed the opportunity to shoot some of Dad’s Paphs yesterday.

Three short ones:

P. translinneanum
Senne Lena
Grace Helen

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Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Tim Harberd on February 13, 2020, 11:15:02 AM
....

Three tall ones

Leeanum 
Black Jack
An un-named one, bought @ Harlow Carr

Tim DH
 
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 13, 2020, 11:29:54 AM
My  word! They are  positively  glowing with health, aren't they?
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: WSGR on February 14, 2020, 06:12:47 AM
Amazing! Stunners!
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: ruweiss on February 16, 2020, 09:14:37 PM
Dendrobium kingianum. We keep this plant during the frost free season at
a light shaded place in the open garden.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Maggi Young on February 16, 2020, 09:30:29 PM
Dendrobium kingianum. We keep this plant during the frost free season at
a light shaded place in the open garden.

 I must  not  let  my  plant  see  this  - it  would  be  so ashamed!  Your plant  is  magnificent, Rudi - the  scent  must  be  lovely too!
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Roma on February 17, 2020, 09:50:47 AM
I wish mine would flower like that.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: ruweiss on February 17, 2020, 09:23:53 PM
Maggi and Roma, thank you for your friendly comments. I think, that the stay in the open garden is responsible
for the good amount of flowers, or different clones make the difference.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Jeffnz on February 17, 2020, 11:53:55 PM
Try keeping the plants on the dry side over the cooler months, water sparingly to prevent excessive bulb shriveling.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: ruweiss on February 21, 2020, 09:35:28 PM
Jeff, thank you for your good advice.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Bart on March 16, 2020, 05:11:31 PM
Paphiopedilum villosum (I think) opened its first flower, 4 more to come after years of growing. The potting mix is inspired by Anders, and contains grodan cubes and expanded clay.

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My P. isigne however is getting smaller every year and refuses to make roots in any medium. I wish Paphs were more widely available like in the 80's and 90 when you could pick them up in the supermarket!

edit by  maggi - image  appears  in correct  orientation when opened!
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: ashley on March 16, 2020, 05:34:12 PM
Worth the wait Bart 8)
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Bart on March 16, 2020, 09:07:14 PM
Thanks Ashley,
I will post another picture when more flowers have opened and hopefully I will suss out how to get the rotation of the attachments right ??? ???
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Yann on March 20, 2020, 05:56:20 PM
Serapias orientalis
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on June 18, 2020, 01:10:00 PM
I know less than nothing about House Orchids so I wonder if someone could help me (or actually help my Brother) by telling us what these are please? My Sister in Law, who sadly is no longer with us, had these for some years in her kitchen and my Brother would like to keep them going if he can.

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Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: GordonT on June 18, 2020, 05:09:18 PM
David, the first one looks like a small division of Dendrobium kingianum (or one of its hybrids). It looks like it may have a keikei (baby plant), starting from the top of one of the canes. The second one is a hybrid Phalaenopsis, easy growers in an average warm household, with bright indirect light (much like African violet conditions as far as light is concerned)
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: David Nicholson on June 18, 2020, 06:20:26 PM
Many thanks for that Gordon, very helpful.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Maren on August 05, 2020, 11:57:28 AM
Promenea xanthina, from Brazil, grows on the side of trees in the cool mountains north of Rio de Janeiro. I've had this for many years, it lives in my cool pleione house where I keep the autumn flowering pleiones. The rootbal is so congested I just drop it on every three years or so. Doesn't seem to mind. It's been flowering since the beginning of June, but this is its final hurrah for this season.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Pauli on September 27, 2020, 09:58:53 AM
Habenaria carnea in my living room. Never below 18°C, but with a good dry rest in winter after flowering.
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Bart on November 09, 2020, 05:14:16 PM
Only just seen your post Pauli, what a beautiful plant! Have to look out for one. How old is it- as in does it flower every year for you, or is it new?
Title: Re: House Orchids 2020
Post by: Pauli on November 10, 2020, 04:51:18 AM
It is easily grown - provided it gets its rest in winter. I have grown it for several years and the group was grown from one plant by bulb division. I plant it in a mixture of about one third normal substrat as for other tropical orchids and two thirds mineral "pebbles" (lava rock, seramis, lime gravel...). I repot every year so that it does not get too congested.
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