Cattleya 'Good Life' Blooms!

Its been awhile since I last posted. Two of my Odom's Sweetheart died from moving them to the kitchen window; I am so bummed about this. I have only one plant left and it seems okay but very weak looking. I even looked on the web for another plant but they're not for sale anywhere. So I hope it survives to eventually flower. It definitely prefers living under the LED lights (as do the other cuttings it seems).
On a good note, My cattleya 'Good Life' has flowered (see pics) and I got a whopping four buds/flowers! Wow! They really love Ausie Gold.

More pics to follow.

Repotted Red Beauty Odom's Sweetheart

The roots weren't doing so well, so I repotted to smaller pots and hope they grow healthier.

Gosh, I swapped pots with Fortworth and Uncle Wang.

Updates

This is an update pic of the flowers from this tolumnia.

I was happy to discover a second tolumnia sending out two flower shoots! Can't wait to see if this guy is identical to my other Popoki. Though they should be clones.

Applied rooting hormone and waiting to see if this guy recovers. Gold Y2K lost its shoot and roots due to my over watering. I need to bag this one.

Two more guys I dipped in rooting hormone. Now I wait to see if new shoots pop out?
I put bags over it help it maintain some humidity since having no roots makes it vulnerable to drying out.

Chia Lin Red Rose lost its new shoot to over-watering rot. I'm so sad about this one. But as with the three above, rooting hormone, bag and wait'n'see.

though not pictured here. I found that BLC Hawaiian Passion has put out a new shoot. Will try to grab pic of it. Also, discovered that BLC. Chrissy Compton 'Mary Piazza' has long roots and its in the water. cool! Actually, though there were failures with the roots and shoots of some, others have shown great growth and roots that have grown into the water reservoir.

Buds of the Season

Unknown Purple Growing New Shoots

Chia Lin, New City cutting with new juicy roots.

2 Chia Lin 'New City' cuttings.

2 Chia Lin 'New City' cuttings.

Chia Lin 'Red Rose' old back bulb.

BLC Hawaiian Passion seedlings showing growth.

Chunyeah 'Good Life No. 1' is putting out new growth and lots of roots.

Blc. Shinfong Luohyang 'Tian-Mu'

Jim Elmore 'Sweetheart'

Port Royal Sound 'Big Red'

Blc. Chrissy Compton 'Mary Piazza' back bulb new growth.

Pot. Haw Yuan Gold 'YK#2'

Shingfong Beauty 'Water Red'

Side Keiki on purple phal.

Blc. Sanyung Ruby 'Grand Dragon'

Two shoots from Carolina Splendor cross

Odom's Sweetheart 'Red Rose' back bulb with new growth.

Edisto 'Newberry' with 2 new growth.

Tolumnia & Phals

Looks pretty outside.

The White Phal is enormous!

This poor guy developed crown rot. sad.

Matt McColm is Vick T-888

Like Brian Bloom, Matt McColm isn't an orchid but he is a cool terminator.

I'm sad he got "destroyed" in the series.

Heat Pad

I thought I'd include a picture of a heat pad. I bought 4 of them.

I'm really pampering my plants! Not cheap.

March 22nd, 2008

New leaf buds and some new roots.

I've found that after adding the heat pads, the plants seem to be putting out new growths.

Repotted Today

Re potted a few of my plants today. Had to cut off a lot of dead roots. But did discover one of my Chia Lin New City to have good root growth but no flower. Potted my Shinfong Beauty's from three pots to two; found new growth with some new roots. Re potted my Chia Lin 'Red Rose' and found new growth but no new roots yet.
I found with the heat pads, evaporation is high. And the need to fill the reservoir increased to once a week. Can't wait for the weather to warm up so I can turn the pads off. I'm afraid to get my next electrical bill.

Tolumnia & Phalaenopsis

Some more photos of my current blooming orchids.