Among the overflowing benches of my faouvorite orchid seller, Orchids & More I can not stop to be amazed. You can find all kinds of surprises, such as cattleya plants only 12 cm high with beautiful flowers intermingled to huge Bulbophyllums!
In my last tour I bought a beautiful Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi in bloom and a vase with three seedlings of Phalaenopsis Schilleriana. At the end of the visit, which lasted always too short, I continued to go around, even if I would not have to take other plants since space in the house is small and already a bit crowded ... but my attention was caught by a group of seedlings of Phalaenopsis Stuartiana, they were all small, more or less the same size of the young Phalaenopsis Schilleriana, but looking closely there was a tiny seedling completely out of the vessel substrate.
In my last tour I bought a beautiful Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi in bloom and a vase with three seedlings of Phalaenopsis Schilleriana. At the end of the visit, which lasted always too short, I continued to go around, even if I would not have to take other plants since space in the house is small and already a bit crowded ... but my attention was caught by a group of seedlings of Phalaenopsis Stuartiana, they were all small, more or less the same size of the young Phalaenopsis Schilleriana, but looking closely there was a tiny seedling completely out of the vessel substrate.
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| Phalaenopsis stuartiana, orchid species, seedling with new roots growing (picture of 31 August 2012) |
The older roots were black, dry and empty, however showed all his desire to live with three new roots just, two of which are actively growing! Certainly did not have much hope if left there out of the pot, it would fall over, who knows where, so I took it and brought to the cash desk with the others, the owner of the nursery, very kind as always, gave it to me for free!
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| Phalaenopsis stuartiana, orchid species, seedling out of pot, with new roots growing (picture of 31 August 2012) |
Then, at the end, a good bath into a systemic fungicide (Azoxystrobin 23.2%, dose 1ml x liter of water + fosetyl-al 746g/kg, dose 5mg x liter of water), this mixture with these doses I was advised one of the owners of Orchids & More, their use it in their greenhouses!
After the shower I left it to dry upside-down overnight and the next morning it looked like new!
It's so small that the repotting in pure sphagnum seemed just the best thing for her, (how to repot a Phalaenopsis in sphagnum moss) the smallest pot I have is 5 cm large and is still a bit too big to this tiny orchid. I'll have to be more careful than usual not to give her too much water but I do not anticipate big problems.
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| Phalaenopsis stuartiana, orchid species, seedling repotted in sphagnum-moss (picture of 1 September 2012) |
Links to information sheets about orchids species: Phalaenopsis Stuartiana:
Go to sheets on IOSPE:
Phalaenopsis Stuartiana - sheet on IOSPE
Go to sheets on Lagrelle:
Phalaenopsis Stuartiana - sheet on Lagrelle
Go to photographic collection on Phals.net:
Phalaenopsis Stuartiana - sheet on Phals.net
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