Buddha's Hand from Ben's @ 58 Market

Buddha's hand, literal translation from the chinese name "佛手“  Citrus medica L.var.saecodactylis Swingle. I have seen these before but always wondered if they will do well here let alone fruit. I saw one of these on sale at the 58 market plant/flower stall (corner stall next to the fruit stall) run by Ben and his wife. A small crowd had gathered and was looking at it obviously attracted by the novelty of this uncommon specimen and a couple of large fruits on the plant. As I was carrying quite a few things and my hands were full, said to myself "i will buy it if its still here when i come back.....  "

I now have 3 in my garden :)

Seedlings came back and a new spike from my Denevei

Deflasked 6 bottles of seedlings finally. They came back a few weeks ago buy I have been delaying the deflasking because of the hot weather. I finally had to because some of the bottles were beginning to deteriorate. 3 of the bottles had nice big seedlings while the rest were so so .

A new spike from the Paraphalaenopsis denevei

A new princess

A first bloom from a Kung Princess keiki.

Some selfing and sibling cross

4 X Storiei yellow selfing, 4 X Boediarjo sibling cross and 1X Agastor selfing.... 

Dendrobium tobaense

I bought  2 of these several years ago from Woon Leng Nursery and when Julius Ng Orchids posted these for sale recently, I couldn't resist....... They arrived yesterday. He picked some nice flowering specimens for me. Julius Ng Orchids has since moved to a new location at 50 Ponggol East, SG 828826.

Renanthera storiei yellow

Finally after a long long wait

I got this from MH nursery just before he shuttered the farm.  Wasn't cheap and I have struggled to grow it well. I tried growing it in a pot with charcoal initially but it didn't do well, I then tied it to my teak wood orchid rack and frangipani. Both didn't work too. Finally I tried using a plastic chopstick holder from NTUC and a mix of coconut husk and spaghnum moss. and it worked. I have since took a cutting from the plant and tied it to my palm tree. Fast forward a few years and this is now spiking and should flower soon. The remaininng base has since generated another 2 healthy growths that are doing very well. You probably can tell its a Renenthera, this is the "传说中的“   yellow storiei .....