Project Keiki #2: Stuff is Happening!

I just realized that I had forgotten to post this picture from the 30th of June:

This was growing on my Phalaenopsis SOGO Twinkle Abundance. And this is the same growth today:

Yep, that’s definitely a keiki growing. I’m gonna be a grandma! 😀

And it doesn’t stop there – the same plant has another growth like it, meaning there are TWO keikis on the way. On top of this, my Phalaenopsis Brown Sugar has two keikis growing as well, and one grocery store Phalaenopsis hybrid has two as well, while another has one. Keikis are everywhere!

I couldn’t photograph the others though, as they’re smaller and thus, harder to photograph, but I’ll make sure to do so later.

I’m so excited! 🙂

Still Alive!

Yes. I’m still breathing, haha. I’ve had a lot of stuff going on the past few weeks, so posting here has been impossible. Everything is somewhat back to normal now. And of course, I’ve been buying orchids like crazy! 😉

These have arrived:
Phalaenopsis Violacea var. mentawai
Phalaenopsis Violacea var. coerulea
Doritaenopsis Purple Martin
Doritaenopsis Pinlong Flemington
Doritaenopsis La Reine De Porcelaine
Dendrobium Treacherianum
Dendrobium Pendulum

And these have been ordered and will be shipped on Tuesday:

Phalaenopsis hybrid KD 598
Phalaenopsis Bellina x Violacea
Phalaenopsis Vrides x Wilsonii
Phalaenopsis Equestris ‘Apari’ x Kingidium Deliciosa
Phalaenopsis Pulchra Red
Phalaenopsis Florensis x Equestris
Phalaenopsis Cornustris (Equestris Aurea x Cornu-cervi Alba)
Doritaenopsis Purple Gem ‘Aida’
Dendrobium Parishii
Miltonia Tristar Night YH #2
Cymbidium Mem. Marvin Gayle ‘Royal’

And these will be ordered on the 4th of July:

Doritaenopsis Anna-Larati Soekardi
Doritaenopsis Jim x Phalaenopsis Golden Peoker Black Bird
Doritaenopsis SOGO Chapstick
Dendrobium Rainbow Dance
Dendrobium Nobile Firebird
Dendrobium Kingianum Dark
Dendrobium Goldschmidtianum
Epidendrum Ibaguense
Barkeria Lindleyana
Barkeria Spectabilis x Epidendrum Criniferum
Cymbidium Pastoral Lady

And on the 18th:
Phalaenopsis Wilsonii x Chibae
Brassolaeliocattleya Village ChiefEpidendrum Calanthum

And that’ll be it for quite a while… I think. 😉

Apart from all these new orders, the Keiki Project is going well too – my Phalaenopsis SOGO Twinkle Abundance and Phalaenopsis Brown Sugar both have little branches that might grow Keikis later – I’m hoping so, anyway! Sadly, the orchid with a terminal spike was a lost cause. 😦

Anyway, that’s about it from here! Hope you’re all well!

Best wishes,
-Janni

Fabulous Phals! <3 (and Orchids-shop.eu)

I received the orchids from Orchids-shop.eu today, and unfortunately, some plants were not tagged, which meant I had to go internet-hunting to figure out which was which. Also, two plants were missing, so it was a bit confusing. I ordered for four other people, so the bad experience isn’t only mine, but theirs as well. However, the plants I received were all healthy and happy, and two of mine were in bloom (a Phalaenopsis Pink Swan and Phalaenopsis Brown Sugar). And I have a feeling that it would’ve been fine if it had been a smaller order. This order was for 21 plants and a lot of equipment, so I can’t blame them for getting confused, haha.

Anyway, here are the two Phals in bloom:

Phal. Brown Sugar

Phal. Brown Sugar

 

Phal. Brown Sugar

Phal. Pink Swan

I also received my new keiki paste today. 🙂 Should be interesting to try out!

Hope you’re all having a great evening/day/morning/night! 😀

Best wishes,
-Janni

Project Keiki #1: The Project Begins!

Look what I got in the mail today! 🙂

It’s “Budilizer” – aka “Keiki Paste”, which is basically a goo-ey substance that contains the hormones that makes an orchid grow a keiki. If you don’t know what a Keiki is, read my next post, as I will explain how to identify and take care of various types of keiki’s. 🙂

Anyway, I got the paste because one of my Phalaenopsis’es has developed a terminal spike, which is a spike in the center of the leaves, that prevents the orchid from growing new leaves and eventually kills it. I would like it to grow a keiki so I still have an orchid like it when its time comes and it’s no longer with me anymore. But there are also other plants that I would love keiki’s from – I have applied the paste to the following plants:
(“NoID” simply means that I don’t know what hybrid the orchid in question is)

• NoID Phalaenopsis hybrid, white with pink lip (the one with the terminal spike)
• NoID mini Phalaenopsis/Doritaenopsis hybrid, yellow with pink stripes and lip
• NoID mini Phalaenopsis/Doritaenopsis hybrid, white with pink stripes and lip
• Phalaenopsis/Doritaenopsis Tzu Chiang Sapphire
• Phalaenopsis Amoinensis x Equestris
• Dendrobium Hercoglossum
• Dendrobium Sulawesiense/Glomeratum

 

I will probably also apply it to the following plants, when they arrive in the mail and has settled in:

• Phalaenopsis Brown Sugar
• Phalaenopsis Equestris
• Phalaenopsis Hieroglyphica
• Phalaenopsis Pink Swan
• Phalaenopsis Bellina var. ponkan
• Phalaenopsis SOGO Twinkle Abundance
• Dendrobium Wardianum
• Dendrobium Tortile (I always read that as “tortilla”, haha)

… and, finally, my tiny Dendrobium Nobile Akasuki Comet King, which I just received in the mail yesterday, after trading a Dendrobium Cretaceum x Anosmum keiki for it. 🙂

I won’t put it on my Dendrobium Cretaceum x Anosmum though, as it already has three keiki’s on their way, so it has plenty of mothering to do already without needing more “kids”. 😛

Anyway, this concludes the first post in my “Project Keiki” journal. Next up: a few pictures and a “special”: the keiki care sheet!

Speak soon! ❤

Best wishes,
-Janni