#miniphalaenopsis

All three of my Phalaenopsis orchids are in bloom at the same time!

The veiny one is a rebloom off the original flower spike (the stem stayed green after the first flowers fell). The dark pink one is a new flower spike off my first orchid. And the white spotted one is the original spike it had when I got it.

I finally cleared off and organized my vanity counter, added a wall shelf next to it, and got all the plants organized in this area of my room. My Money Tree is positioned in the best possible place where it gives shade to the orchids (one of them randomly got sunburnt!! Owch!) But the vibes right here are soooo tropical and I love it. My Zygopetalum orchid’s flower spike died, but I already see some new growth coming in since I repotted it (I’m suuuper excited for more Zygo flowers bc they smell so good.)

((Also, the dark pink orchid opened up this morning, and I’m soooo relieved it’s not the same colour as the veiny one - when I bought the veiny one, I forgot what colour the dark one was. So now I have 3 different kinds that all match! Phew!!))
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Custom pots for my two orchids!!

They’re mini Phalaenopsis orchids, I’m pretty sure I got one from Trader Joe’s and the other from Home Depot? The first one I got immediately dropped the blooms within a week of being in my hot room lol. The other stayed blooming for a while. I’m only now realising I didn’t photograph the blooms. But they’re both a very similar white and purple-pink.

Both of my orchids stopped blooming, but one still kept a green stem and is holding onto its dried blooms! The other started growing aerial roots, so I had to repot them, and wanted to make pots that would match the colour of their blooms.

Both were horribly cramped in their original pots, so I think they will enjoy not having a cache-pot prison now. (I hate cache pots so much!) The new medium is the freshened up with sphagnum moss and orchid bark layers.

My mom’s orchid in the back is a regular Phalaenopsis orchid (she doesn’t remember the colour, but it’s a few years old) and it was in desperate need of a repot. When I went to shake out the old medium, I found out it was sitting in like 1inch of water no moss, only bark. Yuck. So I freshened her up, put her in an old crock thing with an elevated cache pot (so no more sitting in water if it gets too much), got a full leaf wipe dusting-off, and currently (almost 2 weeks later), she looks AMAZING. And has THREE new flower shoots growing off the two main shoots! I can’t wait to see what colour this one will be, I wasn’t here when my mom first bought it.

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