the plants are looking really good and happy at the greenhouse. We have been to visit and check on them a few times. Several things seem to be starting to grow again. I think that's because they weren't getting enough light at the end of the summer to complete their growth and it had just sort of stalled out. Now they are trying to finish off the new growths from this year.
I'm a little worried the vandas aren't getting enough water, but I really don't see any better solution for that. They really need the light in the greenhouse. We finally have the things that are still at home well situated with enough light etc.
The diseased things:
- Sharry Baby had weird spotting on it that seems like it got paler after spraying it with the liquid copper. It hasn't gotten any worse after its two treatments, so we are just watching and waiting to see what happens. The same thing for zygopetalum.
- SLC Bright angel, the mini cattleya that's red with a yellow center on the other hand actually has a virus I think. The strange looking brown patterns on the bottoms of the leaves looks like tobacco mosaic virus based on the pictures I saw online.
This is what ours looks like. We cut off a several leaves that had it the worst. I think that plant may have had this virus all along and it just gets an outbreak in the fall. It had this strange patterned browning on the leaves last year too. I read online that some plants can withstand the virus and others can't. I'm hoping that ours can and we will just live with it. We sprayed it twice with the copper before I realized it was probably the tobacco mosaic virus, so that should take care of any possible secondary infections. It is living separately from the others in our bedroom in a nice sunny spot. It seems to like the better light. It was always used to lots of sun before. Also, I figure the happier and healthier the plant is due to its growing conditions the better it will be able to fend off or deal with the virus.
We have been watering once per week. They dry out fairly quickly in the house. I think I'm going to put nutricote on the plants that are still growing that are here in the house because making up liquid fertilizer buckets is kind of a pain for just a few plants.
The Phal amabalis is flowering. It's kinda runty though only 4-5 flowers. I did bloom boost it but probably not enough or it wasn't getting enough light or something. It has been tough to get the right growing conditions for everyone this year. We had to sacrifice on a few to get some others extra light. I should kick myself for being so picky! It is still lovely
