$101 worth of Olympic Orchids

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Olympic Orchids in Seattle sends out small seedlings and mericlones. They have a wide range of things, including jewel orchids, small windowsill plants and surprising rarities. For example, right now they have Cleistocentron gokusingii, Dendrobium hancockii, and a number of rarer species Phals like Phalaenopsis wilsonii. They also have other kinds of plants.

You do need to be able to raise up small seedlings.

Here are the plants that arrived today, with a heat pack. Plants plus shipping totaled $101.00.

I plan to put most into a terrarium (an old aquarium with a glass top) and the Oncidiums will go into water culture. The Dossinia will get its own jar.

The plant in the back row on the right is Puya ferruginea, a pineapple relative. It came as a free companion plant they offer with orders over a certain size. You have to go to the Companion Plant section and put the free plant into your cart; it doesn't show up automatically.

Front row, L to R:
Dendrobium Lorrie Mortimer 'S&W'
Den. Green Lantern
Stanhopea wardii
Vandopsis gigantea
Brassolaeliocattleya Mem. Grant Eichler 'Lynette'
Laeliocattleya Love Knot 'Carmela's Blue'
Dossinia marmorata
Den. Spanish Eyes
Potinara Cindy Yamamoto x Owen Holmes

Middle row, L to R:
Pot. Miya's Radiance x Fred Stewart
Den. spectabile
Pot. San Damiano x Chocolate Drop
Den. Micro Chip
Zygonisia Cynosure 'Dove of Peace'

Back row, L to R:
Oncidium Sharry Baby 'Red Fantasy'
Miltassia Shelob 'Okika'
Miltoniopsis Upcountry Puna 'Keaau Star'
Den. Emma White 'Mutation'
Onc. Heaven Scent 'Rainbow'
Puya ferruginea

[charlesf6]

nice catch, they all look very healthy!

[stonedragonfarms]

I love getting plants from Ellen; it's also great to catch her at shows around the PNW. In a lot of ways her seedlings remind me of what you used to be able to get from Oak Hill Gardens about a decade ago.
Great looking plants.
Adam

[Leafmite]

Very nice! Good luck with all of them!

Oak Hill Gardens, Ill., was a great place.

[fishmom]

Great batch of babies. You will have fun watching them grow!

[SG in CR]

Are you planning on keeping the S. wardii in the terrarium? They get quite large and send the flower spikes down through the roots to pop out below the plant. They seem to do well in hanging baskets.

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Originally Posted by SG in CR

Are you planning on keeping the S. wardii in the terrarium? They get quite large and send the flower spikes down through the roots to pop out below the plant. They seem to do well in hanging baskets.

Thank you! I was trying to limit the length of the message so I didn't expand any further.

I'm putting most of them into a terrarium for small plants because they're tiny plants, and my growing area doesn't have extremely high humidity. As they grow I will move them to larger containers and, eventually, out of the terrarium. I have a Stanhopea now that was doing extremely well in a basket until a rat ate some of it.

[Paphluvr]

That's a lot of plants for $100 but are they all potted in sphagnum or is it just a top dressing. I've never had any luck growing in pure sphagnum.

[Pattywack]

Wow ES great selection of new plants! So...what do you buy yourself for Christmas? You have a lot fun with these! Nice

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It's pure sphagnum... but those are 2" / 5cm pots. On a warm day here they could go from soppy wet to crispy dry in 12 hours. I much prefer sphagnum now for tiny seedlings like this, because I can't water every day.

I don't have much luck with sphagnum for other orchids, except the ones that like to stay wet. I do OK with mini Phals in the shotglass sized soft plastic liners in sphag - they also dry out in 1-2 days here, even in winter.

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Originally Posted by Pattywack

Wow ES great selection of new plants! So...what do you buy yourself for Christmas? You have a lot fun with these! Nice

If you have the right attitude, every day is Christmas when you're single.