Pleurothallis hypnicola *MINI*
 

I've had my Pleurothallis hypnicola for over a year now and it has been in bloom from the moment I got it :) .. I don't know if it ever stops blooming :lol:

Admittedly the blooms are small.. ok tiny ;)

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...la_SMALL_1.jpg

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...la_SMALL_2.jpg

The big scary pinky white things are my thumb and finger holding the stem of the flower :shock:

You can see big pics in my Photobucket album:
PleurothallishypnicolaBIG.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
PleurothallishypnicolaBIG2.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Thanks Tindo,
it was briefly outside for a time and in my hobby greenhouse for a short while but it's mostly been grown in one or another fishtank.

I had it potted for quite a long time but mounted it a few months ago, as I find it is easier to take of them mounted in terms of not overwatering, and at some point I might stick in my viv that is still in it's planning stage ;)

It's currently in my Jebo, which I have a photo of floating around on a thread here somewhere :) which is generally about 70ish% RH and 20-28 degrees celcius depending on outside weather as it's in a hallway that's neither heated or cooled in winter/summer.

It's only under 2 x 18 watt fluroescent tubes...

It's a sequential bloomer and the spike grows forward to a new flower from the old so you end up getting a long bare spike which is zigzagged with a bloom right at the very end- see pic.

Ok so I thought I'd take a quick photo of the overall plant, which I did. You can't even really see the flowers very well in those photos- too tiny :)

But I also took a shot of a bloom and it turned out to show way more detail than any other photo I've ever taken of it! :banana: Thanks Tindo for motivating me :idea:

...its soooo tiny. I love that cool shape

Nice tiny flowers! How did you manage to make a photo of them?

Thanks :)
I have a digital camera: Canon PowerShot A80 4.0megapixels, with a macrofunction setting.

Also I took the picture where there was quite a bit of sunlight which always seems to help in taking such photos as opposed to trying to take them under normal household lighting.

My pleasure :) I'm sure it would make a great addition to one of your vivs :idea:

Thanks. I'm saving the model of your camera for future reference. I always have troubles with small flower photographing, even if the flower is quite 'large' (3-4 cm)...

Very cool and very cute.

Well done in growing it so well.