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Hi-diddly-ho Noodorino! Ladies are looking fabulous in there sugar coats
Hope all is well with you brother.
:Sharing One:
Hope all is well with you brother.:Sharing One:
Hope all is well with you brother.
Firstly, your Phalaenopsis-- lovely! The variety of Phal's these days is crazy,... I really like the purple/freckled types though, a classic... The yellowing, did that happen after she was moved near that drafty window? Cool can do this,.... I don't think it's nutrition, otherwise you wouldn't have flower spikes,...I see nice plump green-white roots in pot and out,... (that outer layer is called velamen; it's absorbent layer, and also grips), so root rot is out too,.. too bright of light can cause this as well,... Medium light levels are what they like best Noods,.. try a foliar of Fe and N (got water spreader? --critical!), and keep her in lower light levels for a bit, and let's see is the color greens up!... cool drafts are infamous for causing bud drop too,...(oops, said that already!) ..perlite isn't critical, but very helpful! ***... a trick to try on the spent flower spikes: new ones, usually smaller, can sprout from upper nodes on the spike, if the plant is happy.... look for the first node back from where the lowest flower was; cut just above that,... any luck, a new one will form there! Most orchids don't do this with their spikes though,... Tomorrow, I'll post up pics of the 2 main growth pattern types in orchids, a bit about pseudobulbs- who has, doesn't, and why your eye's can't be trusted with some because of the extreme morphological modifications orchids are famous for-- LOL!
Excellent pics brudda! ... 'Tis no crime to perv' out on da ladiezzz!! 
this one shows both roots and spikes popping out ->>
... I'll scare up flower pics for the first one,..super cool-- White with purple tiger stripes! The other, a real night-only stinker, I'll look for something decent... very tough to get good pics of her flowers!
..fat ol' spike forming at upper left, just emerging
.....some are very short, and branch in a clumpy pattern, like the Dendrochilum (big time!) I posted earlier, or like this monster Dendrobium speciosum (that's a 5gal bucket)...

... others grow more linear, with side branching to variable degrees; lots of branching often forms these really cool mats of growth like this Bulbophyllum and Pleurothallis (this particular species is very atypical of that genera)...


.... note that the Bulbo' has classic pseudobulb and leaf morphology, while the Pleuro' (as a genera in whole) has no pseudobulbs at all-- that's all leaf,...looks like a succulent, huh! It's going into bloom soon,... I'll chill it outside for a few nights to speed this along... Still others have longer distances between growths, like that Trichoceros Fly orchid posted earlier, and this other species, and this other Bulbophyllum (this genera is one of the largest in the plant kingdom, 2500+ species!)

....So, that's growth patterns in broad strokes... Pseudobulbs are actually specialized thickened portions of a stem, used to store extra water and nutrients,... many can live off them alone for months! Monopodial pattern growers never form these, just the sympodial ones,... and true to typical orchid morphological diversity and exceptions-to-the-norm', pseudobulbs maybe reduced to nearly nothing, to something indistinguishable from the rest of the plant body ( like that Dendrobium above, which has "canes"), to the typical form like the Laelia above--distinct pseudobulb and leaf, to what you see in the Tricho's (middle pic)-- basal leaves only, the apical leaf is reduced to nearly nothing... only thing I know consistent about pseudobulbs is that they never have leaves growing from their sides! 


....Trichoglottis pusilla-->
....... hope you enjoyed my friend :Cool bud:-- thank you for indulging me!
after that last porn show,"Dancing Psiren""Dancing Psiren"I feel satiatied for the day anyway.
but it wont last nood's:no: so we will need another update soon!:hug::Sharing One:big love for the household!
they are beautiful:drool::clap::hug:

No worries, no rush Noods!... Cook while you got the gas!! ... We'll all keep just fine meantime,...:stylez rasta smoke:--- this here is luxury time, to be lingered over, and slowly absorbed,....Optic Osmotics, my friend! A good vibes relay station-- good stuff in,...
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....good stuff out,...


