Phalaenopsis lindenii in bloom

[cucubirds]

such a petite beauty

[Karole]

Beautiful mini phal and gorgeous leaves! My computer died on me too - luckily my youngest son replaced the hard disk and retrieved almost all of the nearly 15,000 photos from the old hard disk. Happy clicks with your new electronics.

Thanks. Looking forward to see your many beautiful orchids in Malaysia!

---------- Post Merged at 09:54 PM ----------

Beautiful mini phal and gorgeous leaves! My computer died on me too - luckily my youngest son replaced the hard disk and retrieved almost all of the nearly 15,000 photos from the old hard disk. Happy clicks with your new electronics.

Thanks. Looking forward to see your many beautiful orchids in Malaysia!

[Dorsetman]

I got into phal species almost a year ago - have liked them for a long time, but most need conditions a bit warmer than I can provide for my cymbidiums, oncidiums, pleurothallids etc. I solved that by building small enclosures inside my greenhouse and putting extra heat in them . Then started collecting. But phal lindenii is a cool grower, I read, so my two small plants live on the ordinary bench , not in the hothouse bits , with other stuff , coelogynes, etc.
I also read up everything I could find about growing these plants, and when I got a couple of seedlings of one variety, put them in two different composts or pots - some in clay, most in plastic, some in moss, others in bark, etc. In this case, One is in a normal bark, perlite, etc mix , the other in straight sphagnum moss, both in plastic pots. The first of them, that in bark etc, is much bigger now, and has a spike I just discovered . Looks like about 10 flowers, not bad for a first flowering of a seedling. I will post when they open. But nice to see what it will look like (I suppose ).

[chowsekky]

So lovely and cutie...