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@MusicalRedmint avatar @MusicalRedmint Β· 6d
Hear ye hear ye, this is the first of an onslaught of a blissful #orchidlover's and newly converted #hoya fan's spam posts. So much is going well - at least in the plant realm, and that's what we are here for, isn't it? First off: cattleya bliss πŸ˜€. just look at these two. The first (unless Greg messes up the order of my pictures again πŸ˜‰) is my snowflake frosty. She is the first catt whose bloom will be 100% the result of my (and her) effort. Just imagine all those blooms. I only took the plunge into the cattleya realm last year, and I was very skeptical about being able to provide enough light in my dreary northern conditions to get one to bloom. But hey, let this be your sign to get a cattleya 🌸🌸🌸 And the other one, the nakornchaisri ruby? Just look at that plump new pseudobulb. Isn't it gorgeous? And those new roots? She arrived wrapped tightly into a big piece of bark - which might have made sense where she came from, but made 0 sense in my home, so I had to throw caution out of the window and repot immediately. Cattleya lovers will know the risk. She lost all but one root, and I realized later that she must have had some snail eggs on that remaining one, so snails snacked on it for a long time before I noticed. so she was basically rootless. But she pulled through. After months and months, the new bulb is coming in, as are the roots. And she doesn't even seem too stressed. These plants are marvelous. #newgrowth #happyplants