Anticipation Snn. Suchart's Doll

[JDT]

Amazing!

[Azizan]

That inflorescence is beautiful!

Thanks Chris. I'm hoping the flower count will improve with time.

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Wow that lip really goes for it when it opens. Very cool.
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Thanks Robb.

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Amazing!

Thanks Jack.

[Traci]

Always I am late to post but this one is indeed lovely. Great growing!

[Azizan]

Always I am late to post but this one is indeed lovely. Great growing!

Thanks Traci.

[Dorsetman]

I expect that your spider mites and the ones that are found in a cool temperate country like UK must be different species, maybe different genera, so what works here, won't ( at least, not necessarily) work where you are. Or in other words, we each have to find our own answers.
I have at times been so envious of those who can just nail an orchid to a tree in their garden and stand back and wait for it to grow, but I guess that when I have to grow everything in a total glass enclosure, at least I can ( in wonderful theory, and oh how I wish it were quite that easy ) have everything under control all the time. But plant health wise, a combination of routine Physan equivalent usage in all water, and weekly sulphur fumigation works most of the time. I have in the last few years had a thrips problem, but a solution to that problem suggested by AOS , intended to protect just the flower buds from attack, has broken the life cycle chain and I think I am now completely clear . ( but it is a bit difficult to type with all my fingers permanently crossed ).

[Azizan]

I expect that your spider mites and the ones that are found in a cool temperate country like UK must be different species, maybe different genera, so what works here, won't ( at least, not necessarily) work where you are. Or in other words, we each have to find our own answers.
I have at times been so envious of those who can just nail an orchid to a tree in their garden and stand back and wait for it to grow, but I guess that when I have to grow everything in a total glass enclosure, at least I can ( in wonderful theory, and oh how I wish it were quite that easy ) have everything under control all the time. But plant health wise, a combination of routine Physan equivalent usage in all water, and weekly sulphur fumigation works most of the time. I have in the last few years had a thrips problem, but a solution to that problem suggested by AOS , intended to protect just the flower buds from attack, has broken the life cycle chain and I think I am now completely clear . ( but it is a bit difficult to type with all my fingers permanently crossed ).

Hope your thrips problem will be solved.

[Azizan]

The other sibling on the same mount started to flower. It's 3 months apart, most probably free flowering hybrid. Lesser number of flowers and slightly smaller but longer ovary and more intense pink lip. I prefer this colour but not the size (you can't just get everything you want isn't it?). The spike was reddish/purplish when developing, not anything like the previous one. Most probably the pigment did travel to the flower, in this case to the lip since the spike is rather green now (lesser red/purple).

[Azizan]

Size comparison.