My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Thank you for helping me ID this fellow. Have it for 3 years already. Recent colder weather must have triggered it to flower in this manner. Previous years only one or two spikes.

Enjoy:smile:

Overview
https://forum.petpitcher.net/picture....&pictureid=274

From back
https://forum.petpitcher.net/picture....&pictureid=275

Closer
https://forum.petpitcher.net/picture....&pictureid=276

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

WWWHHHHAAAAHOOOOO! I'd invest in a big refrigerator if it's hot next year! What a beauty! How about scent? Can you shoot a close up of a single flower from front and side? I can probably get an ID for you if I can see it in detail...then again someone may chime in with the answer at any moment...but I'd still love to see it up close! Just discovered one of my 'never before' orchids is blooming as well!
Congratulations! That's a spectacular bloom you have there!

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Thank you shawn for the nice compliment. Okie, photograph tomorrow if the flowers are still around. Usually most of my orchids are flowering at this time of the year. The cold spell also managed to trigger my phalaenopsis to flower too. No pics yet, they are still spiking.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

It's a wild species that thrives in thick jungle. Opens once a year.

Name (spelling may be off) > Soligeni

Chinese Name (please translate, Cantonese, not sure about other dialects) >
Indian woman marries-off daughter

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

You're right about the chinese name, Jessie. It does look like an Indian flowewr garlan and smells little like jasmine.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Hi Bactrus,

Did you fertilize your orchid? It looks wonderful. I was told that in order for orchid to flower continously is by spraying fertilizer on the leaves once every 2 weeks with the liquid orchid fertilizer.

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Last year or rather BB (before baby), I foliar them NPK Green on Mondays, NPK Red on Wednesday; both very light concentration below recommendation. Fridays, fungicide. About 20 pellets of control release at the base, less with smaller plant/pots. Once a month some contact insecticide cypermethryne and when dry weather dimethoade systemic poison. Need to control the spider mites and other creepies crawlies. That is my general rule.

This year, nothing of the above. Just control release and some organic German fertiliser. No time to spray and also, don't want to poison the baby if I forget to wash hand or on cloths. They are in my mother's place. Will show my Phals later. They are all spiking now.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Hi Bro...

The species name is Coelogyne but i don't know the full name... they grow in tropical and highland... for tropical species they normally grow around the riverside where they have at lease 90% humidity... anyway if you can get a close up on the flower then we can get the full id^^

Oh btw they are very fragrance... ^^ love them...

Regards
Jonathan

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Was a little busy since I took the photos so no time to take time at mother's to take photo. Just pop baby by then run- feel like the stork- come back already late. Now the flowers have gone back to dust already. Nevermind, there is still next year! Thanks Jon and Shawn.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Hi bro...

No worries we will be here waiting for the next flowering season^^ btw later i might have a buncg of phal photo to share since they are all budding now...

Regards
Jonathan

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Hi bro...

No worries we will be here waiting for the next flowering season^^ btw later i might have a bunch of phal photo to share since they are all budding now...

Regards
Jonathan

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Looks a bit like Coelogyne flavida or maybe pallens, or ovalis! Hard to tell without the closeup photo. C. flavida has 2 brown keels on the lip and a little more brown/orange on the outer sides of the lip, C. ovalis has them running from the base but they don't run all the way to the tip of the apex (and more white surrounding the outer edges of the lip), whereas C. pallens has two high, wavey keels with the edges of the lip ciliated (and appears to have a wider white center patch of white). Oh well, there's always next year! Beautiful blooms anyway!

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Will kiv this thread till next year. Thank you for all your assistance.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Hi bactrus,

The ID for this baby is Ceologyne rochussenii, usually flowering between september -December in Penang. I have one at home as well and it also flowers in October, but mine only have about 8 pseudobulbs and yours is a magnificent speciment.

A sifu has given me some tips on how to get more spikes for rochussenii. First, you have to put it under 50% shade from january-july and during this period, only feed it with high N fertiliser. From August-september, stop the high N fertiliser and start High P and K regime and by the end of september put it under full sun to stress it. I've tried it and it works and I got 7 inflorescence this year compared to just 2 last year. But your is already blooming at a grand scale so your feeding regime is good as well.

I'm currently offshore and my company server has blocked flickr, so I can't upload any photos. But I'll upload it when I got home.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

This year I got lazy and busy. So I just threw some organic as and when I like it and the result is the above.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Finally found some photos of my rochussenii in my other 'lepak' place. Not as grand as bactrus's plant, but the bloom is better than last year's.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/...ba614eef21.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/...62fe3d5312.jpg

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

You're embarrasing me.

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it's true bactrus, i'm really hoping mine will grow into the size that you have now...

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

:blush::blush:

Mine is grown in a coconut husk. I weaved and stitched each individual pieces together with wire, so the roots and stuff can grow out, gree draining. When planting, I stuff more husk to fill the void then top with earth. Now the wire has rusted, the whole 'pot' is held together with roots.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Ban Aik, you shouldn't top with EARTH.. Rochussenii is a strict epiphyte.. Cocohusk will do for it.. It is also, IMHO, one of teh most beautiful local lowland species orchids and gives a magnificent display each year if the plant is big enough (like yours).. :)

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Hey guys would like to ask a question...........Do most of you use charcoal as a media for orchids???????My Phal is in 100% charcoal....And if i use a little energy i can pull the whole roots together with the charcoal out....Was just thinking if i can grow it like some people i see them tie them on a string unto a tree

Ken

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

I believe it is ok to remove the charcoal completely and pack sphagnum moss around the roots before tying it to the tree. After that the shade, rain and fertilising will take care of the rest. :smile: So it really depends on your growing area, but I can tell you that most gardens are absolutely ideal for growing orchids on trees or non-pot style. So far, my experience with tree-tied orchids have never yielded much improvement as my garden tends to get hot and dry especially during a stretch of days with no rain, so the plants have problems with leaf growth and flowering. Now it is only with plenty of sphagnum packed into the plastic pots between the roots did I manage to get my phals back on track. As a rough idea of how dry my garden is, if you water let's say in the morning, followed by the hot spell throughout the day, and in the evening the top portion of the moss is bone dry and the subsequent layers are just barely moist. :bored:Ferns like maidenhair wilt like crazy in this horrible dryness..Anyway, I'm sure the others have a better view of this growing method.

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Hi Funky

Just as i was asking if the plant can be pulled out well today it was a heavy rain and the pot fell to the ground and the charcoal and its roots were exposed but the charcoal sticked to it nicely and i realised that the pot is to small cos the roots are getting squashed.My balcony is is quite hot i can put 1-2 inch of water and exposed it to direct sun and about the next day its bone dry

Ken

Re: My flowering NO ID Orchid
 

Ken, that's perfectly normal. phals have sticky roots that cling to every available surface.. BTW, phals do NOT take full sun.. You will badly burn your plant if you give it too much light. Although phals have succulent leaves, they usually take drying out quite badly..