You bought 4 and got good results with one. Obviously you are doing something right, maybe the others will fall into line. I'm going to plan the same thing as I had a little success this year. I will but cheap ones with nice flowers whenever I see them. Names are not important as I'll never show them or try to get awards. I have room so if I end up with 20 of them and 4 to 5 bloom nicely, that will be a good start.

The ones that did best for me were grown on the cool side. This of course is a local comment as 'cool' in SOCAL means something totally different than 'cool' in Minnesota. I'm glad that progress is being made with these, they are pretty enough.

Congratulations,

Nick

Just got this one at TJ's in dark purple.
Jo

One of my others just showed a spike, that's 3 out of 5, I believe, so it looks like I'm making inroads on these. Now I just need to get more.

Nick

Jo, are you sure you have a Miltoniopsis. Maybe it is a Miltonia, a different animal entirely and growable in CA without the need for Deep Pockets to fund a cool glass-house.
Bob, congrats. Plant looks great.

Hi Arthur,
Thank you for your identification. You are correct. I googled the name you provided, an exact color match to what I got appeared. It was modestly priced. From your comment, I surmise, the fancier named plant denotes a costly and rare hybrid.

Sadly, I inadvertently killed the blooms by leaving it in a closed up car on a warm day a bit too long.

A few other orchids I have grown do well. It is more the environment as a natural habitat rather than my skills, which sometimes tend to benign neglect. I have been raising African Violets for a while. They are also a natural.

The genetics behind orchid development, the precision of the taxonomy, are intriguing.
Jo

This post was edited by fortyseven on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 18:33

Miltonia Hybrid Honolulu 'Warne's Best'
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Miltoniopsis Hybrid Unknown
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The Deep Pockets reference relates to the cost of cooling down a glass-house in summer here not to the costs of buying an orchid.
Miltonia Honolulu 'Warne's Best' is in my collection and was not all that expensive.
Miltoniopsis was named Miltonia up to a few years ago and requires different growing conditions to the "warm growing" Miltonia.

Thank you, for the education and beautiful pics! Jo