Hi, please help me ID this one!!

[mdomingz]

Hello everyone, I registered recently. I've found this site incredibly useful!!!!
I just got this beauty from a roadside market but i think the person that sold it to me has no idea how to grow this. (Well, neither do I) It came in a really wet fine bark and coconut medium. It has no root at the bottom (which was getting brown), It's just a long stalk and instead of leaves it has this kind of spikes. The main stalk and the spikes are starting to wrinkle instead of being plump. Please help me before I do something wrong and kill it!!

thanks a lot
manuel

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Looks like Vanda Miss Joaquim, a nayural hybrid of Hookeriana and teres. Cynthia, Prescott, AZ

[mdomingz]

Hi, thanks so much for the info...

I'll dig a bit more, now that i have a starting point.

best regards
manuel d.

[jerrymeola]

it does look like a Vanda and when grown in pots seem to have trouble getting enough water.

If you want to leave it in the pot I would soak it at least once a week for about 4-5 hours.

Commercial growers often water 3-5 times a day on automatic systems and seem to have better looking leaves. I have several of these types in pots and shriveling looking leaves are always happening. The plant lives well and flowers again. Fortunately the flowers are why we are growing it.

Give it enough water and high light levels. It needs almost full sun all day to flower.

[mdomingz]

Yes, now i´m positively sure is a Vanda Miss Joaquim, thank you so much for the ID. I made some research and found out lots of info about care. I live in Panama (Central America) at the moment. So the whole country is a humidity tray!!

As you all may well imagine, this is paradise for most orchids. I´m shy about knowing so little and haven´t yet started contact with local clubs, but i will come to that soon.

I already put my "Missy" out in the open near other plants, It gets full bright light but not direct sun just yet, dont want to stress it. And for the humidity of the medium,I´m keeping it happy.

thanks so much again
best regards

manuel

[Keysqueeze]

Originally Posted by mdomingz

Hello everyone, I registered recently. I've found this site incredibly useful!!!!
I just got this beauty from a roadside market but i think the person that sold it to me has no idea how to grow this. (Well, neither do I) It came in a really wet fine bark and coconut medium. It has no root at the bottom (which was getting brown), It's just a long stalk and instead of leaves it has this kind of spikes. The main stalk and the spikes are starting to wrinkle instead of being plump. Please help me before I do something wrong and kill it!!

thanks a lot
manuel

It could be a Laeliocattley Gypsy Queen. Try to google that name.

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

You are kidding, right? Cynthia

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Hi Keysqueeze. I see this is your first post. I hope I am not discouraging you. If you look at the picture of the plant, it is typical terete vanda, now papilionanthe. It would be a strange LC to have a plant growth like that. Cynthia