SO, having lost my collection a few years back, and managed to hold on to just a few plants from that collection, I got to thinking when this bloomed:
Brassavola cucullata
Do any of you hae any orchids that have come back from the very brink of death? I know this Brassavola, my Dockrilla teretifolium, and an Encyclia alata are juust now starting to do well after four years of neglect, bad light, and horrid temp fluctuations. THings got pretty dim. My Dockrilla has maybe thre leaves, but the new one is is growing is larger and brighter green than previous, as well as strongly rooting. The brassavola is down to just a wee clump of six or eight leaves, and was once a big giant pincushion of leaves on it's mount. Enc. alata now has two fat new pseudobulbs, but was down to one bulb, last winter.
Does anyone else just sometimes feel the need to brag about their 'chids, when they start doing well, after a long time of struggling?
-Cj