It's really exciting to have three things blooming in the winter- Dendrobium spectabile, Cattleya aurantiaca, and Charlie Brown.  We really really wanted to take spectabile to the Orchid Society meeting on Monday to show it off. It was cancelled though because there was maybe going to be wintry mix, which never happened. The flowers probably won't last another month, so it will have to wait until next year. It's disappointing because that is probably our best plant for the whole year and we didn't get to show it off. It's our only really big plant. Most of our plants are still small, and it will take them a few years at least to get up to impressive specimen sizes. That is the goal though!!

We need to bring a couple more things to the greenhouse, like the Dendrobium aggregatum that isn't going to flower this year after all. It's growing really well though. We had brought it home so it could get its water free rest, but it was too late.

The catasetum is growing quickly; the plant part is already 4-5 inches tall. The roots are maybe an inch long. We really need to repot it so the roots will be in the medium when they get long enough. We have been misting to keep the roots from drying out too much and dying. It's really dry in our house. We are misting a couple of times a day just in the air and the leaves and working on getting more humidifiers.

Paph St. Swithin, which is tiny is growing well. It's existing leaves are elongating, and it's making a new leaf. I know it will be like 10 years before it's big enough to flower, but I still like to see everything growing.

The Love Orchid is putting on a flowering spike. It has a ways to go yet though- at least a month I would say. I haven't been bloom boosting it like I normally would because we recently moved to a new apartment, and it's all I can do to keep them decently watered let alone anything else.

Steven got a chameleon, and a couple of the orchids are hanging out in his cage. We mist in there a lot for humidity- which the plants like and he needed some more greenery. The spathoglottis is in there, the red and yellow mini cattleya with the virus, and the Epi radicans that's mounted on the burlap stick. The epi is in there because I was ignoring it really badly because I don't like it because it's too untidy. I know that is a little nutty. It's good for the virusy cattleya too because we are trying to keep that one separated.