Blooms & Buds May 2023

[@karlawoods2098]

Marvelous collection and thank you for sharing it.

[@clivewalker4272]

I like the beautiful flowers

[@andreaallum8859]

Welcome back to you. Nice to see you. Have some lovely flowers at the moment. Catch you soon

[@lynnsmith9397]

Thanks Andrea

[@carolesykes7955]

The Latourias are all beautiful but that Nora Tokunaga is to die for 💖. I've been looking for one for a couple of years now and no-one seems to sell them. You came home to some nice surprises 😊

[@lynnsmith9397]

I was very underwhelmed with the Den rhodostictum for sure. I like the Nora Tokonaga too but that one I have with the single flower gets my vote currently. If the Nora Tokyonaga shows a good way to split when I re-pot you can have some of it. I think I got that one from Holland and, of course, we cannot do that now can we. 😊

[@lucythecat529]

Such beautiful blooms Lynn! You have so many marvellous dendrobiums. Have you found the hotbox good for other types of bugs than mealie bugs! I think eventually you will get the mealie bugs. They are superb hiders in pots and even old dead roots. Enjoyed your video. I hope all is good with you!

[@lynnsmith9397]

Thank you Lucy. I have found the HotBox really useful especially with the aphids and I have also found dead mealy bugs on the Dendrobiums in the warm end. Not many but they definitely fell off when I touched them. The problem with them and the Neo’s (in my opinion) is that they nestle down in the moss. Thanks for watching.

[@RogersOrchidsGardenandBonsai]

Den. rhodostictum is plain front and back (the only one I think) - just variable markings in the lip. From the front, looks like a bird taking off?

[@lynnsmith9397]

It is definitely rodostictum then, I was very underwhelmed with it but that one with all the spots and the mixed up labels is a cracker, my money is on Dend. polysema but we shall see. I will bring it to club next week.

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

Still jealous of the Den fleckeri. I have scoured every US seller I can find and even tried importers from Thailand and Taiwan, no one seems to have it. Funny story about Holcostylis MS Sunlight. I had one for 5 years and I could never get it to flower. I sent it to Paula (Hillbilly Orchids) and it bloomed a few months later. Go figure.

[@lynnsmith9397]

Michael Den. fleckerii is the bane of my life, I have two and have had them for more years than I care to remember, they go backwards, I change what I am doing, they go forwards, they flower the odd flower, then they lose roots, then we start the whole cycle again, dare I say that this time, they appear to be going in the right direction, but I am under no illusion with either of them. I got them from a seller in Germany 6 or 7 years ago maybe more. Normally I would have given up by now but, as you say, those flowers are simply heavenly, the colour, the frilly lip - one day. It is always the Australian Den’s I seem to have trouble with fleckerii and gracicaule and I gave up on that a couple of years ago and threw is on the compost heap. I have a neighbour who dabbles in ORchids and she bought a gracicaule at the same time as I did. It is so badly treated and neglected you would not believe it, the canes grow 18 inches plus tall and it flowers reliably every year and I am going to steal some canes off it very soon and try again 🤦🏻‍♀️. Your story about MS Sunlight does not surprise me, I bought one many years ago and killed it. This was truly a chance find, in bud with some blooms open, I was the first to see it that day so bought it - now we wait and see if I can get it to look the same next year, I hope so it was truly glorious and the scent was unbelievable - in fact nothing surprises me with ORchids any more.