It's Been 17 Days Since My Last Post..
We have been pretty busy people over the last few weeks.. Not only has work been crazy (that goes without saying), but we have been busy packing and moving things from one room to another. I mentioned last post that we are buying new carpets for the house, so in preparation we are slowly clearing those rooms out. Lots of trips up and down the steps. On top of that, it's Springtime, so my project list gets a bit more attention that it normally does. So writing once again has taken the back seat.
Until Today That Is..
Happy Mother's Day ..
To all of you who are mothers, grandmothers, or even fur-baby mother's. I hope you had a nice day with your families.
Orchid Update Time ..
I was thinking a few month back .. While writing an Orchid Update post, that I should be numbering these. Like "Orchid Update #36" or something like that. I gave it a good try to go back through all of my posts to tally them up, but then stopped at 50. I thought what am I doing. Who cares what number I am on, and would anyone really care? I figured 'No' and thus this is just Orchid Update number whatever. lol.
What's been happening with the Orchids? .. Given the title of the post, I am guessing you know some of the news already. We are going to have a baby Phalaenopsis Orchid!!! A Kiki is forming on one of our Phals. I noticed it about a month ago, and since then it has been growing rather quickly. It started as one small leaf and it now has two leaves. When it was first forming.. when the first leaf was starting to take shape.. I was saying to myself "What the heck is that?" And now I know.
It won't be ready to be removed from the mother plant for quite a while .. It has to form it's own independent root system, and I don't see any roots of it's own yet. A good rule of thumb for separation of these Kiki, is waiting until it has at least 2 or 3 roots that are at least a few inches long. The plant should also have 2 or 3 leaves. So as you can see, we have a good bit of time ahead of us before this gets sliced off the mother plant.
Here are a few shots of the plant and Kiki with bare root. I was doing my weekly soakings and the plant was loose and needed repotted, so I figured I would snap a few for your viewing pleasure.
Not much too her .. This one actually looks to be the least healthy out of all our Phals
There is the little, two leafed Kiki there on the bottom right. That short root popping out just to it's left is emerging from the mother plant, not the Kiki.
I repotted her and made sure not to cover up that little baby Orchid. You can just about see it sticking out of the bark just below the left side leaf.
Right under the leaf
I think we'll wrap this one up here ..
I have more to write (gardening, landscaping, silver, houseplants, and so on) but I also want to relax a little before work tomorrow. Monday's always come too quickly in my opinion. Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their day's or nights. I'll check back in soon!
Good Night for now!!!
