Satan's Poop Inc. Paila Master: OrchidsAttempting to transmit the beauty of this passion of mine. In Spanish one word for orchid collector is quite fitting: "orquidiota" or "orchididiot" in English. I confess being one.Some Australian tropicool Dendrobiums and some species- February 24, 2008 About two years ago, I bought some Australian "tropicool" Dendrobiums from Duno Orchids in flasks and some plants. Only oe of them had flowered, but all of a sudden I have five in bloom and I love them! Below three of them: On the left above De. Burgundy Cream x Dendrobium Aussie Quest. On the right Dendrobium Danang On the left Dendrobium Brinawa Charm x Dendrobium Vivid. On the right, Cattleya Lueddemanniana (Maruja x Pto. Cruz), a sort of funny shaped on really spread out and the back..http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/24.html#a3854 Growing Cattleya Loddigessi on cork in Caracas- February 24, 2008 I have always liked Cattleya Loddigessi from Brazil. I find it very beautiful and delicate. However, the ones I had were not doing very well. Basically, the plants flowered erratically, did not have many roots and the leaves would dehydrate like in the picture below on the left. I had them potted in fir bark with charcoal like all my Cattleyas. This seemed to happen to other people in Caracas, so I decided to experiment and took a small plant and tied it to cork instead of having it in a pot...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/24.html#a3853 Santos sends soe very nice species to compete with Eduardo...- February 22, 2008 Santos sent me these very nice pictures of species Two very nice Cattleya Lueddemanniana crosses, the one on the left has the "Haydee" plant in the cross. The one on right has very nice color. Left: A first flowering of a C, Lueddemanniana coerulea. On the right Jumelea SagitataA nice Brassia Rexhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/21.html#a3851 Five wonderful Venezuelan species from Eduardo- February 16, 2008 Eduardo M. sends this incredible sequence of Venezuelan species: Top left a first bloom of a Cattleya Lueddemanniana from Orquideario Cerro Verde with a spectacular lip, standing next to Catttleya Lueddemanniana "Clarines" fampus for the huge lip, you can see the new one is spectacular. On the right the first bloomer up close. A very nice Cattleya Lueddemanniana Corelua on the left. On the right a Sch. Undulata alba, Eduardo tells me that Carlos Garcia Esquivel thinks.http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/15.html#a3842 Mostly hybrids...- February 11, 2008 It's always nice to come back home, look in the orchid room and think there is nothing new, then upon closer inspection there is this flower and the other oe and by the time you stop counting there are at least six new blooms: Top left, Cattelya Loddigessii from Brazil. I love this flower, but it was not a great grower in my orchid room, then two years ago I switched one to cork and it did great, now all of them are on cork and the difference is incredible, next week the "pilot" of that...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/10.html#a3834 Two Locals- February 10, 2008 Two Lueddemmannianas from Venezuela which were a little wilted when I was able to take the pictureshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/10.html#a3832 World Orchid Conference- February 1, 2008 These pictures are from the World Orchid Conference. I can only say one word: spectacular. However, I made the mistake of taking only my macro lens to take pictures of single orchids, that the overall pictures I too with my phone, simply because I had to show you how wonderful it was. I was concentrating so much in taking the pictures that I actually lost part of my glasses while I was doing it and never recovered it.Lighting was uneven, if the colors are not right I will say it, but I don't...http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/01.html#a3824 Santos sends species- February 1, 2008 Santos sends these pictures, I think I erased the emails, hopefully I can tell you the right species: Aerides Raymond Lender Meyraclinum from PeruMasdevalia Erinaceahttp://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/orchids/2008/02/01.html#a3823 |