DD1 ditched work yesterday so she could stay home and jus...
DD1 ditched work yesterday so she could stay home and just be a momma, so in turn I had the day off as well! Guess where I went…? 🤪
Never had this kind of orchid either—seriously hope I don’t kill it! Also, can anyone tell me what specific kind of Alocasia this is? Similar to philodendron, there are just so many and I’m not familiar enough with them in general to identify on my own, and Greg doesn’t want to tell me for some reason… 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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Never had this kind of orchid either—seriously hope I don’t kill it! Also, can anyone tell me what specific kind of Alocasia this is? Similar to philodendron, there are just so many and I’m not familiar enough with them in general to identify on my own, and Greg doesn’t want to tell me for some reason… 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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2ft to light, indirect
3” pot with drainage
Last watered 3 months ago
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@HisLobster according to google lens, it says alocasia wentii.
Beautiful orchid!! Looks like a wonderful day!
Beautiful orchid!! Looks like a wonderful day!
@TheOddAsity *giggle* I love those things, and I only bought them the first time because of the name, not expecting to actually enjoy them, but damn, they’re addictive. LOL
@Araceae Oh, awesome! I hope they’re good; I haven’t had much of a chance to even flip through them yet, and I’m not even sure now which to start with because the second keeps whispering to me, but I suppose I’ll ultimately play by the rules and start at the beginning like a good girl. (Pfft… 😏)
@SweetFilbert Isn’t it just super fun?! It was the only one of its kind, though they did have a couple of others that I hadn’t seen before either, but their leaves didn’t look too hot so I chose wisdom over greed and left them for some other orchid lover to snatch up. 😬
Next time choose greed (depending on the kind of damage) 😀 while the leaves are a great indicator of overall orchid health in general usually, with oncidium type orchids, I would accept some leaf damage from the shop. If just the tips are yellowing or browning, that could just mean that it's being a bit fussy about not having received the 100% correct water or temperature it wants. Leaftip dieback is a common thing, if they get too warm for too long and you don't keep up with watering 😉 that doesn't mean that the plant in general has an issue and that it won't grow beautifully for you.
@MusicalRedmint Good to know, Susann, thank you!! They had some black speck-type dots on them along with yellowing leaves, and I automatically thought of pests, and also what you went through with that fungal killing machine. I just didn’t want to risk it. Maybe I’ll hit you up with a picture post next time before I check out, just to get some moral support and justification. LOL
Btw, I named one of my other new orchids after you.Its a basic phalenopsis, but with big lush pale yellow flowers with a dusting of light pink at the center, and I just find her to be striking. Couldn’t think of a name, though, and then you popped into my head and I was like, “DONE.” 😘
Btw, I named one of my other new orchids after you.Its a basic phalenopsis, but with big lush pale yellow flowers with a dusting of light pink at the center, and I just find her to be striking. Couldn’t think of a name, though, and then you popped into my head and I was like, “DONE.” 😘
@MusicalRedmint It didn’t. It said rare. I googled and used a few different ID apps, though, and Dancing Lady was the closest I could find, and there are some on the Google machinée that are identical to mine. 🤷🏼♀️
@MusicalRedmint I FOUND HER!! Finally! Jeez…
She’s an Oncidium Eye Candy, though I guess Dancing Lady is generic for most if the Oncidium family, and of course the hubster still calls it a dragon-turtle. 🤦🏼♀️🤣
She’s an Oncidium Eye Candy, though I guess Dancing Lady is generic for most if the Oncidium family, and of course the hubster still calls it a dragon-turtle. 🤦🏼♀️🤣
I'm honored 😊. I love yellow phals. And with pink even more. I can't wait to see a picture.
The black specks you describe can be signs of pests, but with oncidiums especially, they can also be signs of watering errors, which at trader Joe's are not unlikely, would be my guess. The leaves in general are not as hardy as e.g. phalaenopsis leaves. When they are sprayed with too cold water, and it sits there for a bit, black dots (that are unsightly but very much harmless) can appear very easily. And since they might have been misted in the shop or the nursery ...🤷♀️ I myself have bought one recently that has those. It came from a great nursery and was 100% pest-free. It can happen. I'll attach images of normal leaf tip dieback (which as opposed to the black dots is my own fault: I have been a bad mom and the summer was too hot) and of those specks for reference. Btw: the destructive power of the fungal killing machine also was my own fault to a very big part. Yes, I got a diseased plant to start the chain reaction, but it wouldn't have been able to spread this much, this fast, without my help. I don't think something like this happens often.
The dancing ladies get their name from their graceful long spikes with the mass of tinier blooms. Rose Red posted her gorgeous one a while back, as did I with a less impressive bloom. My best guess for yours would be something in the odontoglossum genus. Or former odontoglossum? I can never remember what has been reclassified. Or you can just call it an oncidium type orchid and be done with it. Everything that roughly looks like this is classified as belonging to the bigger oncidium family.
As for Google maybe it's misidentifying, because it is an oncidium, but it is not a member of the narrower oncidium genus, i.e. the dancing ladies. Google is a great tool for broader identification, but the world of orchids is huge with mine differences in between hybrids. And the oncidium family is one of the biggest nowadays: A few years ago, a vast amount of families that have this kind of bulb structure and those leaves (brassia, miltonia, oncidium, odontoglossum...) have been grouped together under the broader term oncidium. Before that, that term was only used very specifically for the dancing ladies. All those subtypes can additionally be crossbred, resulting in even more subgenera, (like odontioda, miltoniopsis, oncidopsis...). To keep it simple, most flower shops etc just call those mixes cambria. Or if they aren't mixed between genera just oncidium type orchids 🤷♀️ so basically you can research specifically what genus or even hybrid you have there and go a bit crazy, or just call it an oncidium type and be done with it, which would still be very correct. (We all know what I would do 🤪) With regards to care there aren't a lot of differences between the subgenera, so it really isn't necessary, unless your brain gets itchy, when you feel you have a less than optimally identified plant in your home.
The black specks you describe can be signs of pests, but with oncidiums especially, they can also be signs of watering errors, which at trader Joe's are not unlikely, would be my guess. The leaves in general are not as hardy as e.g. phalaenopsis leaves. When they are sprayed with too cold water, and it sits there for a bit, black dots (that are unsightly but very much harmless) can appear very easily. And since they might have been misted in the shop or the nursery ...🤷♀️ I myself have bought one recently that has those. It came from a great nursery and was 100% pest-free. It can happen. I'll attach images of normal leaf tip dieback (which as opposed to the black dots is my own fault: I have been a bad mom and the summer was too hot) and of those specks for reference. Btw: the destructive power of the fungal killing machine also was my own fault to a very big part. Yes, I got a diseased plant to start the chain reaction, but it wouldn't have been able to spread this much, this fast, without my help. I don't think something like this happens often.
The dancing ladies get their name from their graceful long spikes with the mass of tinier blooms. Rose Red posted her gorgeous one a while back, as did I with a less impressive bloom. My best guess for yours would be something in the odontoglossum genus. Or former odontoglossum? I can never remember what has been reclassified. Or you can just call it an oncidium type orchid and be done with it. Everything that roughly looks like this is classified as belonging to the bigger oncidium family.
As for Google maybe it's misidentifying, because it is an oncidium, but it is not a member of the narrower oncidium genus, i.e. the dancing ladies. Google is a great tool for broader identification, but the world of orchids is huge with mine differences in between hybrids. And the oncidium family is one of the biggest nowadays: A few years ago, a vast amount of families that have this kind of bulb structure and those leaves (brassia, miltonia, oncidium, odontoglossum...) have been grouped together under the broader term oncidium. Before that, that term was only used very specifically for the dancing ladies. All those subtypes can additionally be crossbred, resulting in even more subgenera, (like odontioda, miltoniopsis, oncidopsis...). To keep it simple, most flower shops etc just call those mixes cambria. Or if they aren't mixed between genera just oncidium type orchids 🤷♀️ so basically you can research specifically what genus or even hybrid you have there and go a bit crazy, or just call it an oncidium type and be done with it, which would still be very correct. (We all know what I would do 🤪) With regards to care there aren't a lot of differences between the subgenera, so it really isn't necessary, unless your brain gets itchy, when you feel you have a less than optimally identified plant in your home.
I have been working on my answer so long, (interrupted by my dog, but still...) that I want able to see your last comment before... and now it says, you've posted it 43 minutes ago. Ooops. As for the dancing lady/ oncidium thing, I disagree, it's the other way around. Paradoxically "oncidium" is the generic term nowadays. Dancing lady refers to the former smaller genus of oncidium, before the term was widened. So it's much narrower.
Also, I'm not sure about the eyecandy specifically. Sorry 😞 . though it looks similar, the lip has a different color. I warned you, getting to the specific hybrid's name will drive you crazy. But maybe it really is an oncostele, which would get you the genus at least. Who knows. If you really want to know, you could post it in an orchid forum. Most people in these a) are very knowledgeable and b) find orchids fascinating enough to solve a mystery like this and c) love to exchange knowledge about orchids, so they will answer quickly 😀 at least in my experience
Also, I'm not sure about the eyecandy specifically. Sorry 😞 . though it looks similar, the lip has a different color. I warned you, getting to the specific hybrid's name will drive you crazy. But maybe it really is an oncostele, which would get you the genus at least. Who knows. If you really want to know, you could post it in an orchid forum. Most people in these a) are very knowledgeable and b) find orchids fascinating enough to solve a mystery like this and c) love to exchange knowledge about orchids, so they will answer quickly 😀 at least in my experience
@MusicalRedmint I don’t know if you saw it above, but I did find what it specifically is—it’s an Eye Candy’Pinkie’ so I’ll have to adjust my hashtags accordingly.
So the dots I saw were similar to the second picture but much more widespread and larger, with a smidge of haloing on some, and the yellowing wasn’t anything like either picture you shared.
So the dots I saw were similar to the second picture but much more widespread and larger, with a smidge of haloing on some, and the yellowing wasn’t anything like either picture you shared.
I bought two of the plant with the specks and the one with the more pronounced damage was the one my mother wanted, so I cannot take a better picture right now. I just got out mixed up with this one, sorry. Some of those dots on her plant might even have had halos, but I'm not sure. When I'm there next time, I can take a picture. Or you could Google it. I think it should be easy to find
The eye candie pinkie I can find, still seem to have a slightly different lip, but I could be wrong. Also, we seem to be posting at roughly the same time. I saw your post afterward, but habe also commented in the meantime
The eye candie pinkie I can find, still seem to have a slightly different lip, but I could be wrong. Also, we seem to be posting at roughly the same time. I saw your post afterward, but habe also commented in the meantime
@MusicalRedmint Are you sure?? Because there’s one other person on Greg growing what I have, and it’s being sold all over the internet as an Oncostele Eye Candy ‘Pinkie’…
@MusicalRedmint Hahaha! I do, too, usually. It’s the author in me—makes me a wordy bitch. LOL
I’ll run upstairs to my quarantine room and try to get a better picture to show you. Hold please…
I’ll run upstairs to my quarantine room and try to get a better picture to show you. Hold please…
Seems they’re all a teeny bit different from one another. Or, it could be a difference between young and mature flowers. I don’t know, but my brain doesn’t want to let go untill it’s figured out. I just went through the same thing this morning with one of my philodendrons and an Alocasia. Not knowing makes me nuts. But, I’m lazy, too. Identifying is hard tedious work and now I’m thirsty and have a crap-ton of laundry to do. 🙄😫
@MusicalRedmint Gee, thanks. 🤣
Seriously, though, thank you for all your input and knowledge. Sweet dreams. 😘
Seriously, though, thank you for all your input and knowledge. Sweet dreams. 😘