Hello everyone
My first real orchid is a beautiful Colmanara called Space Race 'Topaz Gold'. I got it at an orchid show and I just love it. I was just hoping for a bit of a check-up from the experts to check that I'm doing what I should.
This is when it was in its blooming glory! Isn't it gorgeous? It had two flower spikes so there were blossoms for months.
After the flowers finished I put it on the front porch, as per the directions of the grower, to get more sunlight. It's growing several new pseudobulbs. It's the winter in Melbourne now so it gets a decent amount of low winter sunlight. It can get cold at night (occasionally 5C), but it doesn't freeze in my yard and the grower said it can take the cold.
I was just wondering if I was doing everything right? I water it once a week and it gets some orchid fertilizer pellets once a month. It sometimes gets small black spots, mostly on the leaf tips, and I've cut a few tips off just in case it was fungus. It's also lighter green than it used to be but I think that's because it's getting more light? It last had a new flower spike in August last year when I brought it home, does that mean I should anticipate another flower spike soon? Or will it hold off until the new pseudobulbs are full-sized?