An August Update!
 

Well, August has been a great month, more so the last week!!! I've got some new orchids as well as modified my closet, so I thought I would post an update!

The major thing I did in my closet today was add a new rack and hang several potted phals off of it and the older one. This made a considerable amount of room down on the eggcrate.
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Here is the older one with mounts and smaller phal seedlings.
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And here is the new one with three larger ones.
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I also got the biggest surprise EVER on the 17th!!!! Without my knowing, my three closest orchid friends (Call_Me_Bob, Mira-Claude, and Medelia) put some money together and got me several Phals as a birthday present from Patrick!!! They should have arrived on the 15th, but there was an error with Canada Post, and the plants were late.
Here is a stuartiana var. nobilis I got from the Canadian friends out of their own collection.
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A three crowned KS Happy Eagle with a spike and a coming bud.
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A HUGE Vio Vio with a spike and small bud.
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Phal. Tzu Chaing Chrisna and Meir's Penang Princess 'Rubicon'.
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And Cindy Li (Marie's Delight x gigantea), and a present from Patrick himself, Sogo Kaiulani!
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more space = more orchids !!!
I like your set-up. Plants grown under lights always seem to have perfect foliage.
K S Happy Eagle is one of my favourites and hopefully one of these days is going to be a proud daddy ( pollen parent x2 ) in my collection.

Cody, What GREAT friends you have to give you such nice presents! Your are one lucky guy!
The set-up looks great and everything looks so healthy, good growing!
As a side note, with the Meirs Penang Princess, Peter told me that if it is grown in higher light it will produce keikis instead of blooms. Does yours have a clonal name or is it a seedling? Here's a link to my pic of the two together.
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...irs_PG_50_.JPG

Again nice set-up and plants!!:mrgreen:

Judi

Thanks! Yes, it is Meirs Penang Princess 'Rubicon'!! I am actually glad you asked, as the clonal name was buried in the pot, so I didn't think it had one, nor did I look for it.

Looks great! And what an awesome birthday surprise!

Great set up. I like your rack idea. I am building a new growing area so thanks for the idea of how to put more plants in the same space.

Cody you've got the best closet I've ever seen :biggrin:
I hope you had a wonderful Birthday - you're orchids and grow space looks amazing -- good growing :D

:bdayparty::bdayparty:

All I can say is, what do you use to clean the leaves on your phals? they look mirror shiny! Great set up by the way.

Your grow area looks great and your orchids look extremely well grown. Excellent job.