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Dec. 25th, 2025 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bitterlawngnomeHappy Christmas if you're celebrating!
The first orchid pictured here, the Calypso, gave me one of the best "miracles" of the year. Despite having lived in their native range my entire life, I'd never seen them - they won't grow on disturbed soil, that is, anywhere that's been logged - and where they *do* grow, people pick them (don't get me started). But in one wonderful trip with the fam to Pemberton, BC, they were growing plentifully in an accessible location. It's like meeting a phoenix or a dragon, to me.
This Phrag is the first of the genus I've ever managed to bloom. I killed several of them by overfertilizing - they want weak fertilizer and between fertilizings they must be flushed through with plain water to avoid any sort of salt buildup. Otherwise they start to die back from the leaf tips.
The first orchid pictured here, the Calypso, gave me one of the best "miracles" of the year. Despite having lived in their native range my entire life, I'd never seen them - they won't grow on disturbed soil, that is, anywhere that's been logged - and where they *do* grow, people pick them (don't get me started). But in one wonderful trip with the fam to Pemberton, BC, they were growing plentifully in an accessible location. It's like meeting a phoenix or a dragon, to me.
Calypso bulbosa
©Bill Pusztai 2025
Calypso bulbosa 9348
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Paphiopedilum 'Saint Swithin' (P. philippinense x P. rothschildianum) 6434
©Bill Pusztai 2025
Paphiopedilum sukhakulii 4832
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Phalaenopsis bellina fma coerulea 0634
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Phalaenopsis bellina fma coerulea 0858.
©Bill Pusztai 2025
This Phrag is the first of the genus I've ever managed to bloom. I killed several of them by overfertilizing - they want weak fertilizer and between fertilizings they must be flushed through with plain water to avoid any sort of salt buildup. Otherwise they start to die back from the leaf tips.
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Phragmipedium 'Ecuagenera Dream' (P. Sedenii × P. kovachii, Ecuagenera 2017) 0613
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Phragmipedium 'Ecuagenera Dream' (P. Sedenii x P. kovachii, Ecuagenera 2017) 8801
©Bill Pusztai 2025
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