my greatest benchhog intends to earn his living
 

My very first orchid (acquired in April 2001 as a wedding present), that has
grown into an incredible benchhog (a Phal with 9 healthy green leaves, a
leafspan of 26 inches, tipped over to its side due to sheer weight of all
these leaves) has every intention to earn its living this season. I just
discovered a second new spike on it. :-) Now I will have to be extra-careful
around this one, since this orchid has in the past been very accident prone.
It's a No ID with the nickname Flowerfall, and there are two reasons for
that nickname -- its nice waterfall flowering habit being only one of them.

Joanna

my greatest benchhog intends to earn his living
 

Joanna,

Isn't it funny how one plant seems to be accident prone. I have a larger
phal that the lady up the street begged me to take from her. The spring
after she gave it to me I took it back to her to enjoy the blooms. She
paniced and brought it back afraid she was going to kill it. It's a nice no
name large purple phal.

Since I've had it I've dropped it, broke a new leaf, dropped another plant
on it, and knocked it over at least a dozen times. It just always seems to
be the plant that is accident prone but yet it keeps on going. Right now I
think it's starting to spike. The leaves look a bit beat up.

For your plant you might consider sitting it down inside a larger heavy pot
or a larger pot with stones in the bottom to keep it upright.

Good Growing,
Gene


"J Fortuna" wrote in message
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My very first orchid (acquired in April 2001 as a wedding present), that
has
grown into an incredible benchhog (a Phal with 9 healthy green leaves, a
leafspan of 26 inches, tipped over to its side due to sheer weight of all
these leaves) has every intention to earn its living this season. I just
discovered a second new spike on it. :-) Now I will have to be
extra-careful
around this one, since this orchid has in the past been very accident
prone.
It's a No ID with the nickname Flowerfall, and there are two reasons for
that nickname -- its nice waterfall flowering habit being only one of
them.

Joanna