The test will be this fall... Cyms grow just fine in the heat... Hopefully, the ones that you have will also bloom, that's the "gotcha" . If they don't bloom this year could also be from the fact that they were just divided... sometimes they skip a year under the best of circumstances. But here's hoping!

Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere!

keiki keikis keikis EVERYWHERE!!!!

a friend gave me a bunch of ratty dendrobium canes about a year ago and she was like, these are beautiful, you will love these, they grow like crazy, stick them in a really big basket and just wait. I was incredulous as it made one normal new growth and three keikis last year.

Well well well...it was just biding it time...waiting to explode!!!
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6a3fcf24_c.jpgGhost by J Solo, on Flickr

that one cane has more than 10



the basket is 18" and i stopped counting at 40 keikis

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...943b6cbc_c.jpgGhost by J Solo, on Flickr

i cant wait to see it flower...i hope i like it LOL



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...958afcd5_c.jpgAdenium and stuff by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2847ff58_c.jpgAdenium and stuff by J Solo, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...019a842f_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9e4458ca_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...da4c9674_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr

breakfast of champs!!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9fbcf4e3_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr


voodoo lilies are getting toasty...stinky flowers in my future!!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...589306df_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr


my Den. spectabile has finally started it first Big Boy cane!! its like a goofy awkward teenager who is 5 inches taller than his peers


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...2a1f0808_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr



Roberta really saved this plant (edit i forgot to put the name, Dichaea longa) LOL, by 1) showing me her awesome hiking pics 2) introducing me to the Baker Sheetss and 3) telling me how to change my mount for success (tactfully and without making me feel stupid)

so the five new growths and one flower are in her honor :bowing:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ce541ff4_c.jpgBrogdon by J Solo, on Flickr

I'm really interested in seeing that Den bloom...My favorite, of course, are the avocados. Picked straight off the tree I'm sure. Gonna have to go pout for awhile now.

DC, I'm so glad that Dichea has responded! All I did was take a dream trip into the wild... something that I fear is not going to happen for anybody for a rather long time. But your climate is perfect... I can't keep them wet enough to make them happy.

they take a day or two off the tree to reach perfect ripeness-

i will shamelessly plug mother nature here for a second- Brogdon Avocados are awesome!!! i cant grow the real Mexican Hass here- they just don't thrive and the fruit is hit or miss and that is unacceptable in my opinion. i have a Florida Hass which is a bastard and the fruit don't set but it is a type A flower which is great since brogdon is a B and so i get all the Brogdon flowers pollenated and never worry if the Florida does or not...anywho, they are tasty and buttery and two to three times the size of a Hass. bomb


WW- i think i will get a box out to you next week with some treats- i'll throw in some 'cados too!

Yes to mother nature!... Haas avocados do great where I live... just about done with this year's crop though, alas.

one of my friends has a dad who is fond of saying of Hass avocados...of course they wont grow here (of Miami), they are Mexican, they are too smart for that, no idiot wants to live in this humidity (he's from Baja :biggrin:)

:rofl:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0f22425d_c.jpgFlowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c1d8254c_c.jpgFlowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...15454360_c.jpgFlowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr

this next pic is really exciting to me. I LOVE bamboo orchids and i have always obsessed over the pictures of seeing massive groups with tons of flowers...i did not realize that these were MANY MANY orchids and not one single specimen. so it has taken me about three years in this configuration to get to having finally two ( and one more in bud) of blooming size.


I know soon the left one will fall and try to start a new colony with her keikis and i'll wrangle that when i have to LOL but i am so pumped for many of these amazing flowers floating around my yard. they flower sequentially and i cant remember a time when it wasn't flowering so i think it blooms all year...forever


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a942c15e_c.jpgFlowers in the sun by J Solo, on Flickr

A closeup of the bloom on the bamboo orchids when you get a chance please?

this is an old bloom but the same plant-

i'll take a new one straight on when i get to go outside next (working at the desk, "working" LOL)

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...65ae71dd_c.jpgMore ‘chids by J Solo, on Flickr

Ooooohhh! Could I grow that?

Well, it's a tropical plant... So it would be a lot harder for you than for DC... I have a friend in my area who's a better outdoor grower than I am, who has a nice pot of it, that started from one of those little pieces that he got at the Honolulu airport. I have tried a couple of these, that didn't make it. I have one where I bought a somewhat larger plant that I'm trying on the patio... I think it will make it. But to get a big one, it really wants to be a lot warmer. They also need a lot of sun.

I’ll send you a keiki to kill, WW

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f493f4e0_c.jpgNeo on a plank by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7fc4549d_c.jpgNeo on a plank by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...372f6241_c.jpgNeo on a plank by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0614f32b_c.jpgNeo on a plank by J Solo, on Flickr


keiki with buds LOL


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3f37bbc9_c.jpgCurly tailed devil by J Solo, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3f59fd15_c.jpgTiny plants by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0bc71dcf_c.jpgTiny plants by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...21547456_c.jpgCanna by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1c52f68f_c.jpgCanna by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0110a966_c.jpgCanna by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...94c00343_c.jpgCanna by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...18c942bc_c.jpgCanna by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6b8ed8a9_c.jpgCanna by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...61d774d6_c.jpgToo many toys, sir by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...c50bf43f_c.jpgToo many toys, sir by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...fdacc2fe_c.jpgToo many toys, sir by J Solo, on Flickr




https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...bd4b8419_c.jpgToo many toys, sir by J Solo, on Flickr

Is the last one a Trichoglottis atropurpurea? It's wonderful!

I once thought of buying one of those but then I chickened out, since I don't think it would do too well in low humidity...

Great eye!! It is.

She’s a new plant to me but she loves it with the vandas.

This one does like both humid and warm. For me, definitely greenhouse. South Florida is more like home...

I won't kill the keiki Judah... I grow lots of tropical plants here in Kansas. We call it growing inside the house. :biggrin:

Those purple blooms are killer nice! And what is blooming in those sarracenia pics? Are those from the sarracenia or something else? While you're at it... I think that lizard likes me. Perhaps it wants to come live here. I think you need an ongoing thread in Off Topic called WW's Lizards and everyone can start posting lizard pictures there.

Those are the saracenia flowers. They are super cool in that they are also a seed pod inside.

I have a few friends in sh getting ready for the trip to WW. The hymen. is in there already

I didn't even know they flowered! Now I'm DEFINITELY getting some next spring. I even have a natural spot for them at edge of pond... just need to plunk them in and grow forward!

medusa is going to put on a show this year....this one is open and there are 4 other spikes...i'd love to get multiple open at once!!!!


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e970d131_c.jpgSept flowers. Medusa begins her show by J Solo, on Flickr


NoID Catt from an orchid rescue mission

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3efb9898_c.jpgSept flowers. Medusa begins her show by J Solo, on Flickr


Lovely onc from Dolly in dramatic lighting
this spike got attacked by all sorts of things and then we had a surprise tropical storm and 10" of rain in a weekend and so i was really thinking i was gonna lose all the flowers but i am delighted they fought through

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...4707fa6d_c.jpgSept flowers. Medusa begins her show by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...37c77dd7_c.jpgMacro, catts, and flowers by J Solo, on Flickr


what was once old is now new again....
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3b974f39_c.jpgMacro, catts, and flowers by J Solo, on Flickr


Hwra. puanani

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...409d0155_c.jpgMacro, catts, and flowers by J Solo, on Flickr

this guy who has raspberry in its name...( i have the tag but it is far from my desk)
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0482002e_c.jpgMacro, catts, and flowers by J Solo, on Flickr


i rescued this Den Phal a while back and it has pure white flowers (some show the slightest pink in the center) and is apparently a real show-off!! there are 5 spikes and it is poppin'

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0ba2b9f3_c.jpgSept flowers and a tower garden in progress by J Solo, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...11bdf824_c.jpgSept flowers and a tower garden in progress by J Solo, on Flickr

Looking forward to more of the Bulb medusa! (waiting for action from mine, but never more than 1 or 2 spikes) Love all the rest too.

i am delightedly waiting for this MIltonopsis to develop and it is really difficult to photograph, half because it is in a busy back ground and half because it is 3 dimensional candelabra of teeny flames


i finally got one

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0f2f21c5_c.jpgMilton and opsis by J Solo, on Flickr

Can hardly wait! Do you know which one it is? (My Miltonia regnelii is kicking into gear, Miltoniopsis does poorly for me, but some Miltonia species put on a show)

I do but I always forget. I’ll check the tag later when doing my chores

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e1953dbc_c.jpgMaggie, Medusa and me by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3bd2dbe4_c.jpgMaggie, Medusa and me by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7778604d_c.jpgMaggie, Medusa and me by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d4eeca42_c.jpgMaggie, Medusa and me by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...ce5c3f72_c.jpgMaggie, Medusa and me by J Solo, on Flickr

Awesome. :cheer: I'm so jealous.

Pew pew pew again!!

No need for jealouly, you have the best part of the year coming for being a human LOL

also, i will always try to take you guys into my yard because i enjoy the company

WW, your keiki is putting out its first SH roots...i think it will be a real fast transition once i get it to you

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...8846ec82_c.jpgMedusa daylight by J Solo, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...aa2844ea_c.jpgMedusa daylight by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a1e98dcc_c.jpgMedusa daylight by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...e3761c98_c.jpgMedusa daylight by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...55e92468_c.jpgMedusa and more by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6c2c1d66_c.jpgMedusa and more by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...17404007_c.jpgMedusa and more by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0343790f_c.jpgMedusa and more by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0e3b9b19_c.jpgMedusa and more by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6df9d1e5_c.jpgMedusa and more by J Solo, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0a318463_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...656d699f_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...721680b4_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...0a7a27e1_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d049ca82_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...33a8d0da_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr



https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...76168ea8_c.jpgLuella by J Solo, on Flickr

:wow I'm running out of superlatives. Just wonderful. I want to come live in your lath house.

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Can you tell me what plants are the first and sixth pictures in this latest batch? I just love these. Thanks. :)

Thanks it’s a place I really love to be.

The first is Bcd. gilded tower ‘mystic maze’ and the last is Psy. mariposa ‘special’ (it is a clone of a mutant from a local nursery. It has three lips instead of one. Only one true lip but all the petals look like lips.)

Fifth picture... Definitely a Samuri Warrior.

yes!!! it is the first flower i have seen from this buolbo ( lashiflorum?) the tag is difficult to get to LOL

such a samurai

I'm just using my garden snips to get some divisions here. One of each is nice!!! Really nice! Kidding of course ....... fantastic display.

Must be a delight to walk around your garden, I know I enjoy it vicariously through your photos.

Samurai flower is Bulbo lasiochilum?