A Gigantea hybrid

Taiwanese gigantes hybrid. Not at prime. Second time blooming and have been struggling to grow well. Bloom is medium size but I think it can grow larger over time.

Here comes the sun....

After a few sessions of heavy rain, this poor Cattaleya portia looks totally exhausted.

My jujube plant think it's a grape vine

My jujube plant is fruiting like a grape vine. So many fruits....  I trimmed down the plant and fertilised the plant a few months back. The flowers although tiny are also scented so this is a nice plant to have around the garden. I am thinking of propagating it.

Princess Kaiulani and Lea Marie

These were taken yesterday, Phalaenopsis lea marie salazar and a Phalaenopsis PK flava. Time to do some weeding.......

 

Safe for now

I thought I better not delay the project anymore. Originally wanted to use some pvc pipes to make the cage but thought this will be much simpler and cost efficient. Found some old vinyl coated wire mesh and managed to put together this cage with some cable tie. They should be safe for now.

Self healing

This always happens whenever there is a heat spell. The birds will try and eat my peyote. Sometime they are successful sometimes not. Increasingly they are are finding my peyotes tasty. You can see a  part of the succulent eaten leaving a deep cut. Luckily they do recover and heal. Important not to let it get into contact with water or they will rot.  I need to put up some protection soon.

A scar from the previous attact that has healed but got attacked again. 

 

seedlings are happy

About a month since deflasking, seedlings are happy... almost maintainence free. They have just been surviving on the water that run off from daily waterings of the orchids above when I go galavanting. The plastic covers are drilled with holes and the side of the containers are cut to allow for free air flow. holes drilled at the bottom of the container to allow for water to drain so the growing media is moist but not swimming in water. I prefer growing this way as compared to growing in open air compots as the original roots and weaker leaves do not dry up brfore new roots grow.  Next will be to start fetriliser and fungicide regime plus add some snail pallets, I can see some nibblings already.