Satan's Poop Inc. Paila Master: Orchids
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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)Attempting 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. 7 Aug 09 Last orchid post go to miguelorchids.wordpress.com This will be the last Orchid post in this blog. Last December I moved the rest of the blog to wordpress and only kept the orchids here, but today I learned that they are shutting down the whole thing in December and my subscription ends tomorrow... 1 Jun 09 Lots of flowers when I returned I was away for one month and when I came back there were so many flowers that I did not even have to set up anything special to take the pictures: Above left: Cattleya Gaskelliana semi-alba... 26 Apr 09 Pictures from Fundaorquidea show as I go away on vacation These are pictures from the Fundaorquidea show. I set up my plants with Pablo Figueredo from Fundacion Plantchart. I can´t find the picture of the set up. Left: Cattleya Gaskelliana Right: Cattleya Jenmanii Left: Cattleya Leopoldii Cattleya Lueddemanniana My two Masdevalias, both won, nobody else had any Left: Miltonia, Right: Cattleya Mossiae Left: A spectacular Cattleya schilleriana Odontoglossum Phrgmipedium Cat... 10 Apr 09 Nice hybrid Phal and four species Nice flowering hybryd Phalenopsis On the left a Cattleya Jenmanii coerulea from Venezuela and on the right a nice Lueddemanniana, also from Venezuela On the left a nice Brazilian Cattleya Aclandiae... 1 Apr 09 Last week was indeed a great week I did have a great week last week, not only because my blogging seemed to catch some attention (too much for my own taste), but because on the weekend I took some of my orchid plants to the Exhibit of Natural Science Society at the Transport Museum, where my plants won three first prizes and two third prizes... 28 Mar 09 A nice combination of things Above and below on the left a nice Dendrobium Speciosum. I ahve had this plant 12 years, this is the first time it flowers. On the right Dendrobium Tye Die On the left Dendrobium Pa´u´Ala, on the right Dendrobium Banana Royal Brassavola Glauca on both sides Two Cattleya Luddemanniana On the left Masdevalia hybrid... My new fertilizer regime is paying off, on March 15th. it will be the one year anniversary of my new program using Peters Excel CAl Mag and it works! Cattleyas Lueddemanniana are blooming all over the place, the one on the right is Mariauxi x San Ignacio On the left another Lueddemanniana on the right a Cattleya Walkeriana On the left a Cattleya Luteola, on the right Cattleya Loddigessi On the left a first flowering of a Cattleya Amethystoglossa from Brazil, on the right a first flowering of a Venezuelan Cattleya Lawrenceana coerulea On the left a spectacular Epicattleya Rene Marquis, love the contrast... 8 Mar 09 Flowering picking up! ... ... 10 Jan 09 Lots of species, one borrowed Sophronitis Coccinea Aurea on the left, this plant flowered three times in 2008. On the right, Pablo Figueredo sent this Shomburgkia Undulata Marisabel de Las Casas. Had troubles getting this Comparettia Falcata all in focus... 15 Dec 08 Nice Flowers! My Oncidium Onustum, now known as Zelenkoa Onusta bloomed spectacularly this year as you can see. On the left a Dendrobium hybrid, no idea what the name is... 9 Nov 08 Lots of flowers!!! A first flowering of a nice Cattleya Walkeriana, a Brazilian speciesLots of flowers from my awarded Cattleya Jenmanii Gran Sabana x Rubra which I bought from Xavier Caballero Close ups of the flowers above I may not have hybrids, but once in a while I succumb, like this Epicattleya May Day (??) Unidentified Bulbophyllum and a close up Nice Cattleya Alba, no clue what it is ... 20 Oct 08 Some special Species This is my very special Cattleya Violacea, not only is it free flowering, but this time it sent up two shoots with ten flowers (six and four) as shown on the left. This despite the fact that we crossed it in April with Cattleya Violacea "Muse" and I removed the fruit two weeks ago... 19 Oct 08 Eduardo sends some great pictures of species Eduardo M. sends some very nice pictures of Venezuelan and Brazilian species. Spectacular specimen plant of Cattleya Percivaliana on the left and a very large, overlapped Cattleya Percivaliana on the right... 5 Oct 08 Flowering suddenly picks up Flowering really picked up after the Miranda exhibit, here are some samples: Left: A nice Cattleya Aclandiae from Brazil. Right: Oncidium Millaki x Oncidium Ornitrryncum Left: My very nice Cattleya Warnerii concolor from Brazil... 5 Oct 08 Miranda Orchid Exhibit 2008 The Miranda Orchid Society show was held two weeks ago. I don´t like using flash when I take orchid pictures and I only took my monopod and it was very dark. Most pictures did not come out very well, I salvaged these three: Top left a Vanda Sanderiana, a species... 5 Oct 08 Eduardo and Santos send some nice pictures Eduardo and Santos send their regular contributions. If my memory is right the top two, the two Waleriana´s belong to Eduardo and the remaidner to Santos. Two spectacular Walkerianas, the one on the left lloks like a coerulea and an alba on the right... 7 Sep 08 One Species, One Hybrid ... 24 Aug 08 Flowering begins to pick up Flowering picking up, hopefully not too early for the September Miranda Exhibit. On the left top, my awarded Cattleya Jenmanii, larger flowers and more flowers than ever before. On the right a nice alba, but I have no clue what it is... 17 Aug 08 Three species as flowring is apparently picking up Top left: This Cattleya Mossiae does not appear to know that it should have flowered three months ago. Not bad for its firest time, note the solid lip and the flaring. On the right a Cattleya Percivaliana named Gabriela... 21 Jul 08 Eduardo sends a nice set of mostly species My flowering has really slowed down, but Eduardo sent some really nice pictures of species: On the left, Paillonante Pendiculata. On the right a very white Cattleya Walkeriana Alba. On the left, a nice Stanhopea Grandiflora... 13 Jul 08 Grammatophyllum Scriptum A year ago I thought this plant of Grammatophyllum Scriptum was going to die as it started losing leaves and turning brown. I moved it more into the sun, much brighter light and then I started using a fertilizer with Magnesium and Calcium that seemd to do the trick... 27 Jun 08 Two nice Purpuratas Two nice Laelia Purpurata from Brazil, very similar, with petals and sepals which are pinkish. Love them both. ... 22 Jun 08 Three Species and a Hybrid On the left is a very nice Cattleya Walkeriana from Brazil. This is the first flowering of 24 plants a friend brought me about two and a half years ago from that country. Very Promising! On the right another Cattleya Aclandiae, notice how it is much darker than last week´s On the left another one of my Laelia Purpuratas, On the right a very nice flared yellow hybrid called Blc... 15 Jun 08 Mostly species, taken in full sun light Today I decided to try to take the pictures of my orchids in full sun. Results are cool, hope you like them. On the left, a nice Laelia Tenebrosa from Brazil, I love the contrast betweem the Lip and the sepals and petals...
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