Roots are busting out all over! All over the old dead last years' ones...
Doing some repotting since the roots are a-rooting now. Seeing how the bud sheathes are coming. Found a speculative seeding that I bought years ago ready to flower. Hope its as nice as the ones online. (Blc Mem. Bess Thompson). Posted pics of whats open now. (on flickr)
The scale and mealies are abated for this nanosecond of time.
The Masd coccineas wish they were back in the Andes.
What's up with you all?
K Barrett
Just about everything is waterlogged! We've had a couple of dry days, which is good. After all the rain, I need to get out there with a shot of fungicide. Yesterday I freshened up the snail bait; seems to have worked.
A great deal of repotting is done, and what is not probably will wait. A few exceptions: reed stem Epis and a couple of Dends that are calling my name.
We had a terrific flush of Catts over the last couple of months (our plants are maturing!), but it's a little drab out there right now. More will come. The Vandas have been *very* good to us this year, and continue to spike like crazy. Remember that big white Vanda, Zengyo White? The one none of us could find anywhere? That thing is, for all intents and purposes, always in bloom. It will have a couple of weeks between one spike and the next, but that's it.
Trichoglottis brachiata has buds coming up and down the trunk. Can't wait! And Plectrelminthus caudata has two spikes that will probably mature in time for our first display next month.
All in all, things are good.
Diana
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:03:42 -0700, Diana Kulaga wrote (in article <XXWuk.20549$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews7.bellsouth.net>):
Di, how'd you get your T. brachiata to spike? I've had one for about a year, wired into a net pot. I spray it one or more times daily, but it just sits there and looks sickly. No critters I can see.
Tom Walnut Creek, CA Nikon D200
It hasn't grown all that much, Tom, but it looks great. It's in a slat basket, no medium, lives with the Vandas (pretty high light all day) and gets watered every morning for 5 minutes. Fert when we do the Vandas. My guess is that the light is the key, along with good watering.
No special care here. Dumb luck, maybe? But all our Vandas have been fantastic this year, so maybe it was jealous!
Diana
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