31 May 2026 • Orchid collection update: New spikes, summer growth, and a wild orchid find

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Hey there. Welcome to my green pets amoyam green.

[00:00:04]We're going to start out in the cool tent again today where it looks pretty certain that uh Miltonopsis Lilia Nakamoto is is going to bloom. These are I think these are spikes. There's one on each side of the bulb. So, that's exciting. They're supposed to have black and white flowers and they're supposed to be fragrant. It better be pretty exciting.

[00:00:34]Um, dropping blooms on this Dendrobium love memory. But we got some new growth coming up. Although this one I don't like the looks of that. What's that?

[00:00:49]Don't know.

[00:00:53]Big leaves unfurling on my Nepenthees Bongo cross back here.

[00:01:00]Big beautiful picture on that one. As well as Raja by Edward Ziana. Big new leaf here. And hoping we're going to see a new pitcher develop here or here. That one's going to be pretty impressive. Wow, look at the size difference in leaf.

[00:01:23]If we see that difference in picture size, it's going to be ridiculous.

[00:01:28]Pretty exciting.

[00:01:30]All right, let's go hop over look in the seedling tent.

[00:01:37]Some random odds and ends here in the seedling tent. Top shelf, we've got a Drosa capensus, which is really dewy and sticky and catching lots of fungusnats.

[00:01:49]So, that's exciting. That was a gift from one of my students. So, thank you for that.

[00:01:54]Uh, we got a little cactus up here. That was a gift from my flasker.

[00:02:01]Little filadendrin uh coupleocatinney back here. And this was the leatric uh puncta that I bought. And when I planted it, I tugged a little bit too hard on the leaves and pulled the top off. And I think that's dead. So, how about another one?

[00:02:23]Caliorex's.

[00:02:25]Um, this in byu finally opened up its leaf. Got some new roots pushing out down there. And, um, yeah, it's so weird. Some of them doing great, some of them definitely not doing great.

[00:02:38]So, tons of seedlings ready to be potted out. I think this group is going to be first. And I'm going to try these in rockwool. I've got some little rockwool cubes and some net pots. And we we might try out the rockwool. See what that does. I'm soaking it right now.

[00:03:00]A little inobulbum or Dendrobium manifas.

[00:03:08]Callas.

[00:03:10]This one in really really great. Those two plants bloomed. The the parents of that plant bloomed in 2019. My first two Cali Rexes ever. Cross them together and that's the result. Peter Lynn has been selling these for I don't know if he's still selling them for a while there. He was selling them on eBay like once every one every couple weeks or so and they were going for really really nice prices. But I kept a few for myself and hopefully I don't kill it when I transplant it. They do not like having the roots disturbed.

[00:03:45]That's for sure. Okay, let's go look at the big tent. See what's happening in there.

[00:03:52]Yeah. So, if anyone ever tells you, oh, if you're interested in catacin, get cloas, they're like the smallest ones.

[00:03:59]Um, I guess that's true, but they're not small.

[00:04:06]They're not small.

[00:04:08]They are going crazy.

[00:04:15]I mentioned that I consistently for years have had an issue with this Rebecca Northern Mikabi. Every year this happens. Black spots on leaves and then when it comes time to bloom it the plant forms buds and then they all drop off. I don't know what the deal is. I virus tested it a couple days ago.

[00:04:39]negative for a do a adontto glossom ring spot and simbidium mosaic. But that that doesn't mean there can't be something else in there. Could be bacterial. I don't know.

[00:04:50]But this is the last year that I'm going to put up with that. I just I can't do anything about it. It's not something's not right with a plant and I'm just getting annoyed with it. So, we'll see.

[00:05:06]Two nice really big leaves on my felonopsis filipinensis.

[00:05:13]Gorgeous.

[00:05:16]Love that. Pretty white flowers in the fall hopefully.

[00:05:24]And how will we go fill him bloom again?

[00:05:31]Every couple weeks he's got a new flower.

[00:05:34]really rewarding to grow.

[00:05:39]I popped my other catacini divisions in here. I've got two copies of my varsity fortuna. It's awarded amaos.

[00:05:51]So, that's exciting. I'd rather have both those than some of the other plants that I have.

[00:06:00]Finally do see something in the sheath of Wrinkleia Aristocrat. Looks like that will be blooming within a month or so.

[00:06:10]Massive new growth on this Calia Rex from Peru Flora. I suspect it is an Ayakucho variety. We will see. And I hope that comes out nicely. And big bonus if it decides to bloom. It could, but maybe not.

[00:06:34]Lovely lavender flowers on this Calia Maxima. Just look at that.

[00:06:41]Long lasting, too. They last a month.

[00:06:47]The flower on Catia perparata finally dropped off. But check out the size of the sheath on its half sibling here, Cat Leia Pulurima. The sheath is enormous.

[00:06:59]Like big as a leaf.

[00:07:01]Not only that, it's got a second growth on it.

[00:07:05]That also has a sheath.

[00:07:09]Wow. Hybrid vigor indeed.

[00:07:12]Very excited about that. You can see the roots going nuts down here. And that's going to have to be repotted after it blooms.

[00:07:23]All right. I want to show you a couple more things. One is the classroom terrarium in my classroom at school has got a blooming orchid I did not expect.

[00:07:34]And also I want to uh jump outside real quick and show you the plants that I have outside my Zurich gardens as well as my house plants that are sitting outside there for the summer.

[00:07:46]This is my little classroom terrarium.

[00:07:50]It's got various little things in it.

[00:07:52]There are some orchids. There's a restia here. Little bouilm contenulotum back here.

[00:08:00]And another couple of rest over here.

[00:08:03]And believe it or not, this guy has bloomed. So I'm going to take the cover off so we can get a little bit closer.

[00:08:12]All right, here we are. Look at that.

[00:08:15]Pretty cool, huh?

[00:08:21]This tank is largely neglected through the summertime.

[00:08:30]But wow, pretty cool.

[00:08:41]So, I've adjusted the name. This is my foothills prairie garden.

[00:08:47]And I've added a couple things. We got some nice new little colines. This is the Rocky Mountain coline, state flower of Colorado.

[00:08:58]Right behind it, we got some evening primrose.

[00:09:03]This is the macro carpa variety with the big big flowers.

[00:09:08]And then back here you can see this echinos uh s echinoseras hybrid cactus that getting closer and closer to blooming.

[00:09:22]And of course this little blue veronica back here looking cute.

[00:09:27]And this came up last year. This is its second year. It was from a wildflower seed mix. I don't really know what it is, but I I'm thinking after looking it up, might be some type of austache.

[00:09:43]It has a real licorice smell when you pinch the leaves. So, we'll see what that does.

[00:09:53]And then over here, we've got the high desert garden.

[00:09:58]And you can see this lavender, English lavender, is just doing amazing.

[00:10:04]Really excited about that.

[00:10:06]And this osteosperm is uh folded up now for the day it opens.

[00:10:13]It opens and closes every night.

[00:10:16]It's got several more on the way.

[00:10:21]I bought some luminette shade cloth to kind of give myself some space over here to have some of my house plants outside for the summer. So, I've got my little hipastrom pink colo out here, my crillo and needs needs a trim, and my clia minata.

[00:10:44]And I was pretty shocked when I came over here and looked at this thing. And it's got not one, not two, but three sets of flowers coming out on it.

[00:11:02]And that is really, really exciting.

[00:11:06]Three that I've seen so far.

[00:11:10]Now, the good news is we're early in the season and the grasshoppers are still little bitty things, so maybe they won't do too much damage.

[00:11:17]Last year, the grasshoppers absolutely decimated the flowers on this thing. So, we'll see. Um, I'm hoping that having it kind of back here in the patio, not right next to the fence there, there might be less less grasshopper activity. But we'll see what happens. But anyway, just really excited that this thing seems so happy. That's going to be really nice.

[00:11:45]Oh, and almost forgot one more thing I wanted to show you. I went out hiking in the mountains this weekend looking for these guys, Calypso Bulbosa, the fairy slipper orchid, and I found some solitary individuals, but the real find was a really nice colony with several plants just coming into bloom. So, it was it was cool to see different stages of the spikes developing and some fully opened flowers. That was so so so cool.

[00:12:24]All right. Well, as always, thanks for stopping by to check on my green pets.

[00:12:28]I'm William Green. Hope everything's growing well for you and happy June.

[00:12:35]Summertime is here.

[00:12:37]See you soon. Bye.