I was all ready to forgive the cochleanthes amazonica for all the bud
blasting and high maintenance. It had two visible buds, and one leaf sheath
that looked suspiciously like another bud just might be hiding in there and
fighting its way up. The humidity has been high, and I had come to believe
that humidity had been the only or the main culprit in all prior bud
blasting, so surely these would make it. Darn that plant! The riper of its
two visible buds is bud blasting right now. Well, hopefully at least the
other bud will make it. I got this orchid last November, since then it has
bud blasted eight times (I think) and only one flower has actually
developed. This plant is the moodiest, the most high strung, the most
egoistical, the most demanding orchid! If it bud blasts on me again, I will
really get angry with it. And then I suppose I will forgive it once it
actually opens another flower. Oh well.

But in much happier news: my Dtps Talitha's Gem semi-peloric opened its
first flower for this season today (last year it had a total of 33
sequentially, really neat), and one of my big white Phals that I have had
for three and a half years now is opening one of its monstrous buds tonight
as well (these buds grow until I think, surely it must open already it's so
big, and then they grow some more). So overall I have more reasons to be
happy than angry, but ...

that cochleanthes is just urrr@#!#!

Joanna