Ascocenda Haad Ravai x Betty May Steel

A new cross from Kultana Orchids that looks very promising. I was thinking about crossing it with Renanthera citrina.

A favorite plant Renanetia Sunrise. It is almost always in flower.

Vanda testacea

I finally manage to get a decent shoot of this miniature Vanda. I was thinking about crossing i with Ascocentrum miniatum or with Renanthera monachica. Hummmmm.

Vanda testacea (Lindley) Rchb. f.

SYNONYMS: Aerides testacea, Aerides wightiana, Vanda parviflora, Vanda vitellina.

HABITAT: This species is widespread in India, Ceylon, through the Himalayas eastward to Manipur, Burma, Yunnan Province in China and the mountains of northern Thailand. It generally grows at 300-1200m with temperatures between 6C to 30C.

LIGHT: 39000-50000lux (3500-4500 fc). Plants require bright light but may need some protection from direct midday sun. My plant don’t get this much light but it seems to do OK any way.

TEMPERATURES: I grow all my plants at the same temperatures. 15C as a minimum and the up to 40C some days in the summer. If plants are grown in temperatures over 30C you must make sure that you have a lot of air circulation.

HUMIDITY: Some ware between 50-90% is preferable.

WATER: Rainfall in the habitat is very heavy from late spring into autumn. In the winter it has a dry period of 3-4 month. My plant gets watered every day during the summer and about every other day the rest of the year.

FERTILIZER: My plants a fertilized about two times a week in the summer and every other week in the winter. I use Peters 20-20-20.

GROWING MEDIA: I grow my plant mounted on a cork slab. Plants are usually grown in hanging pots or slatted wooden baskets filled with open, fast-draining medium.

PLANT SIZE: The steam is usually short, 10-30 cm. But as for all monopodial epiphyte they can grow large with time. This one is a slow grower like Renanthera monachica that grow about two new leaves a year.

LEAVES: Are between 7,5-12,0 cm long and 1-1,2 cm wide.

INFLORESCENCE: 7.5-20.0 cm long.

FLOWERS: 6-15 per inflorescence. Flowers have yellow sepals and petals and a lavender or pink to purple lip and spur. They are small, measuring 1,2-2,0 cm across.

Vanda tricolor

Here is my Vanda tricolor that I have had for many years. In our climate it only flowers ones a year. This plant was given to me by the botanical garden in Lund/Sweden as a small cutting.

The Vanda pumila has now opened its three flowers, mmmm.

The size of the flowers on this Vanda Golamco's Blue Magic is starting to come to its maximum.

I did some pollination some days ago, here one can see the early result of the flower stalk swelling.

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Vanda Manuel Torres

This plant didn't start flowering until it reached 1,6 meters. Today I is 2,3 meters and is now coming with a new spike. The flowers are enormous so it is worth the wait.

Renanthera monachica. One of the two spikes has opened its flowers.

Vanda pumila

My Vanda pumila is finally in bloom. This spike holds three flower.

The Rhynchostylis coelestis is getting better every day. I just love the color!

The most important thing watering Vandas is to make sure that the roots are completely green at every watering. Here is a large Neofinetia falcata.

Last a Phalaenopsis equestris that flowers all the time.

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Vanda testacea

First flower open, not the best picture. This species is probably the smallest in the Vanda family. It is just 1-1,5cm. This time I have moved it so that the ants can pollinate it.

Have my Vanda coerulea f. delicata become an alba???

No, I took some pollen two days ago.

I just love the bensonii.

The tricolor has opened the flowers on one spike.

Did some pollinating yesterday, hope that some will result in small plants in the future.

Ascocentrum curvifolium f. luteum x self

Ascocentrum curvifolium x self

Rhynchostylis coelestis f. alba x self

Vanda coeruleaf. delicata 'Jo Ti' x 'Johanna'

Vanda Tristar Blue x self

Ascocenda Princess Mikassa "white" x self

Vanda Arjuna x self

Neofinetia falcata

I am enjoying this Neofinetia very much. This is my first Neofinetia flowering the in last three years. I have a couple of old plants with 50-75 small plants that has never flowered. When it comes to Vandas I flower warm growing, intermediate and cool growing without any problems. But not the Neofinetias, why?

There is always some Ascocentrum flowering in the summer mounths. First this year was the ampullaceum and christensonianaum. Now it is my curvifoliums and just spiking my garayii.

Hummmm, is this a lemon it might as it self?