I found this tiny little guy attached to the yellow orchid, I guess its another 'Tian-Mu' with a single root. I hope it survives and grows.

These two guys are new Odom's Sweetheart 'Red Beauty' I got from orchids.com. The one in the back has a new shoot and the one in front under a plastic bag has, I think, three shoots. the only problem is their roots may have rotted away. The one in front definitely has no root system and I'm using the bag to keep the humidity around it high. the wrinkled leaves tell me that its using it's stored reserves to grow new shoots and hopefully new roots. Oh boy.

Kitchen Window Sill

I have two northeast kitchen window sills. This is where I place the rest of my orchids. As you can see I've used up all the space. Most of the pots here are empty; waiting for shipments of orchid to arrive and end up in them. I have 6 more plants so they'll get filled quickly. I've been using Dyna-rok II. the bottom of the pots are acrylic bases/reservoir that I made (thanks to tapplastics) to hold about an inch of water.

My dendrobium is putting out flower spikes; I was surprised as I thought it was going to die but low and behold, its also has new shoots.

These three guys, I got from ebay. The one in the middle is a yellow: Blc. Shinfong Luoyang 'Tian-Mu'. The one on the right is a red color: Pot. Ching Hua Flame 'Red Rose'. The left one is a red with yellow lip: Blc Lily Marie Almas 'MGR' (Orange Nugget x LC Jalapa). They're small, it'll be a while before they flower. Hope they don't die.

Mounted Cattleyas

This mounted guy is a cattleya named 'New City' and its a red color flower. I got it in Hawaii and it's the only cattleya that hasn't bloomed for me yet. I got four cuttings out of the original two plants when I was repotting. Three are on this plack and one is planted in a 6 inch pot in Aussie-Gold (and it's doing very well). New roots have grown and new shoots are out. Hurray, I hope it doesn't die. I mist it pretty much every day.

The purple cattleya here is doing well it looks like.

this is that mystery orchid. Its taken to the mount really well. at least 5 new shoots

The other phalaenopsis

Sun Jye Daimond. (I'm not sure but on eBay it's named Sun Tye Daimond but web searches show it to be Jye not Tye. Oh well, not sure but I guess it has to be Jye).

This one is a deep purple type and already it is putting out a spike. I can't wait to see what it looks like. I hope the spike grows tall. Name: Sun Jye Diamond.

Taiwan Glory.
The one in back is a pink-purple and the one next to it is a Harlequin named Taiwan Glory; it should be cute. The small one in the back is the keiki I mentioned earlier. I damaged it roots and it lost one of its bigger leaf but it has since put out a new root and it looks like it will survive. Pretty much all these guys are growing new root systems, so I'm happy and confident they probably won't die.

Phalaenopsis - 'Blushing Bride'

This is Maki Watanabe 'Blushing Bride' (Romance Miki x Otohime). A very pretty flower indeed. I saw a picture of a bunch of these and it looks like cherry blossoms. I should get a bunch. ;-)

Phalaeopsis friends.

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Old pics

Found this picture of my orchids when they were small plants. Only a month after I brought them back from Hawaii. Wow some of these guys are big now. and I can see the dendrobium at the left… maybe the purple one? the one next to the dendrobium is my mystery yellow cattleya (wow it's tiny).

This purple Phalaenopsis died but not before it produced a keiki (an off-shoot) and I was able to plant it and thereby save a clone of the parent plant. It'll probably be years before it would flower.

Phalaenopsis

I found this guy in a dark conference room in Glendale. I took it back to my home via Southwest and potted it in Prime-Agra and watered and fertilized it. It gave me new flowers.

I repotted it in Dyna-Rok II (because the salt build up on Prime-Agra was apparent) and over-enthusiastically cut off the rotting roots. It died soon afterwards. I guess some of those roots weren't dead afterall. Tragic.

As you can see I have other Phals growing in their pots. More on those guys later.

More Cattleyas

This cute orange compact (maybe miniature) cattleya was purchased online. I was surprised that it was flowering when I got it. I really liked it but I didn't water it enough and it dried out. How tragic.

This Dendrobium is doing well; can't remember where I got it. I've had it flower for me many times and even though most of the leaves dropped off it's still flowering for me. I've this year transfered it to Aussie-Gold and its doing very well. I'm thinking I may have got it from a florist; along with a couple of orchids that had finished flowering and was on sale. I had a Miltonia that recovered and bloomed for me but I put it out in the sun and it burned to death.

I got this purple cattleya at a florist in Milpitas with my friend Rey. I bought two of them but only one gave me blooms like this pretty much every year. The other one I later found out, was struggling with it's crappy medium. I've since mounted them onto my "Cattleya Tree."

I got this guy in Hawaii as well. It's named 'Good Life' and growing it from seedling to this size and then flowering is very satisfying!

'Red Beauty' and purple cattleya. I guess this was taken before I watered the little red guy to death.

Cattleyas

This yellow cattleya was a mystery plant I bought at either a tourist spot or at the airport in Honolulu? I had hoped it would be a grand purple cattleya like the picture on the package but atlas, false marketing. This little guy is quite a prolific grower and many years later (2007), I've split it up into several cuttings and mounted them on a wooden plack. So far it's dong really well.

This is my "Cattleya Tree." The yellow cattleya is at the top left. I have mounted a purple on both the top right and bottom left. The bottom right is a red cattleya called 'New City', which is a plant I got also in Hawaii but it has never flowered for me… yet. ;-)

Oncidium (Dancing Ladies)

This oncidium was given to me by my friend Don. I can't believe it survived and this plant has grow huge and has produced, every year, oodles of yellow flowers! Its currently growing in Aussie Gold medium (www.aussie-gold.com) after I separated it into six clumps. All are doing well and continuing to grow like crazy.

Dendrobium (Honey something?)

This Dendrobium was cute. But I ended up killing it, I think I underwatered it. Also got this baby at the orchid show in Hawaii.

Odom's Sweetheart (Blc Toshie Aoki x Slc Wendy's Valentine) 'Red Beauty'

I bought this litttle guy (along with a few others) when I was vacationing in Waikiki (Oct 13th, 2001). I pretty much fell in love with this miniature the day it bloomed; which was about 2 years later. I regretted not buying more because it was cheap, a mere $7 and that I watered mine to death. I managed to order online from the original orchid nursery in Honolulu but I also ended up killing them by over watering them. Now 2007, I decided to try replacing them but found they were no longer available. I did find then at another online place called orchids.com but they were now $18 a pop. I bought two but found them to be rather small. I've planted them in a bonsai pot with Dyna-Rok II, in an attempt to grow it in semi-hydroponic (will upload pics). I hope one day this plant will be popular again and get cloned like hell. I'd like to get another one because it's now no longer available, pretty much anywhere, online.

The guy with the yellow shirt, in front of the field of Cattleyas is me. This was taken at the orchid show, where I got 'Red Beauty'. Man, I was thin back then… gotta loose weight!