Orchids

“Betty” -Phalaenopsis Orchid

Originally rescued for free from Home Depot in April of 2025, after it had lost all its blooms. The flower spike remained, and it rebloomed for several months, eventually dropping the blooms and flower spike in September 2025.

It has put out one leaf, and dropped one leaf.

-White blooms.

“Iris” -Phalaenopsis Orchid

September 2025 -Purchased for $5 from Home Depot after it had dropped all its blooms. It was very dehydrated, and spent the next month desperately trying to put out blooms. It was trying for flowers instead of sending energy to the leaves, so I cut the flower spike to save the plant. It battled with a bit of root rot, but has made a nice recovery. Fresh thick roots into the water cup, and several new leaves.

November 2025 -Potted it up in a cup of moss.

December 2025 -New flower spike starting to form. 5 large leaves, 1 new leaf growing in.

“Edith” -Phalaenopsis Orchid

September 2025 -Two new healthy leaves since April, but currently has some sap beading along one leaf. It still has the one leaf with a brown spot on it.

November 2025 -Wrangled some of its air roots into a cup of water for additional hydration.

March 2026 -Starting to grow a new flower spike.

“Julia” -Phalaenopsis Orchid

Originally purchased from Home Depot for $5 after all its blooms fell off. It had a bit of root rot, so I put it in an ‘orchid pot’ for a while, where it did not get enough moisture.

I then repotted it into a clay pot with orchid mix. It still doesn’t seem to be thriving, and as of September 2025 has sap beading under and around one leaf, and the leaves are somewhat wilted.

‘Masdevallia Weberbaueri’ x ‘Imposto'r’ Orchid

Purchased February 2024 at the Southern Ontario Orchid Show. (Crystal Star Nursery) It had two bloom spikes, and continued to bloom until April.

September 2025 -It now has 6 flower spikes, and rotates through them blooming off and on. It usually has 2 in bloom at any point in time, and has been blooming since spring. It’s grown many more leaves, and is now looking quite bushy.

March 2026 -Recently started putting out another flower spike.

Bc. Yellow Bird ‘Tigertail’ AM/AOS Orchid

Purchased February 2024 at the Southern Ontario Orchid Show. (Magic Oasis Growers). It had two flower spikes, with one flower.

September 2025 -It’s grown very bushy with leaves, but hasn’t attempted to rebloom yet.

March 2026 -Bushy. STILL NO FLOWERS!

FDK. After Dark ‘SVO Black Pearl’ FCC/AOS Orchid

Purchased February 2024 at the Southern Ontario Orchid Show. It has put out a new tuber every summer, full of healthy leaves, but has not yet bloomed.

November 2025 - A flower stem with flower buds is forming!!!

December 2025 - The flowers have opened just in time for New Years!

February 2026 - The flowers have begun to die off.

‘Vanilla Karen-christianae’ Orchid

Purchased February 2025 at the Southern Ontario Orchid Show. It immediately began dying back. Many leaves were lost. I placed it into a plastic grow tent with a heater and bowl of water for humidity as soon as possible. I also repotted it, as it had no pot.

It began to slowly stop dying back, and then grew a few tentative roots. It truly began growing new leaves in late August after being moved into a new plant cabinet. It was then plagued by thrips in September, and had more die-back.

January 2026 - It’s dropped 2 or 3 more leaves, but has started growing a new branch!

March 2026 -New branch has grown from height of black ziptie to above the moss pole,

‘Vanilla Karen-christianae’ Orchid

This piece either fell off the mother plant during transportation, or broke off when the mother was being repotted.

December 2025 -Multiple new growth points have died off due to thrips or inhospitable conditions (low heat/ low humidity). One large branch has died off. The roots have grown quite strong though, and the plant still seems to have some strength.

March 2026 -Another branch died off, and then restarted.

Bulb. bulb Lasiochilum x sib

Purchased at the Southern Ontario Orchid Show in February 2024. Potted it in some moss on cork in a bowl.

January 2026 - Repotted it in some moss in a glass bowl to allow better watering.