Rainy cool day...

It has been raining the whole day yesterday and drizzled on and off today thus making the weather pretty cool. The weather is really unpredictable nowadays. Luckily this damp and cool weather is to my advantage as I have a few Cattleyas that is waiting to be repotted after being bare-rooted.

Rain rain don't go away... keep the air cool for another day.

The early hours if Friday (12 Jan 2018) had the lowest recorded temperature recorded in the Klang Valley so far for this year, dropping to a low of 21 ^oC. Even the daytime high temperature are at a low 25 ^oC!

The weather however, makes some of the orchids fail to colour up due to the lack of strong  sunlight and heat. Take for example the Rth. (C. Netrasiri Beauty x Rth. Orange Nuggett) below. The petals have not taken up a more intense orangey-yellow than it should.

The colour of this flower hasn't intensifiied as it should due to the lack of
strong sunlight and heat.

In bloom today (non-Laeliinae)

Here are a few non-Laeliinae orchids that are currently in bloom.

The first one is Dendrobium peguanum. This tiny miniature is really cute, and would have been prettier if it was mounted. 

Cute little greenish-white blooms of Dendrobium peguanum. 

Another cute one blooming is the rat-tailed Trichocentrum cebolleta. The blooms are small, though the plant isn't. 

A member of the Oncidiinae family, Trichocentrum cebolleta is purportedly to
contain hallucinogens.

And this just came in the post as I was about to publish this post, Bulbophyllum mastersianum. Not a bad sized plant for the price.

Rhyncattleanthe (C. Netrasiri Beauty x Rth. Orange Nuggett)

This is one of the more interesting Rhyncattleanthe hybrids from Thailand. It is a cross made from a pink spotted with pink lip C. Netrasiri Beauty with the compact, concolour orange-coloured Rth. Orange Nuggett. 

Rhyncattleanthe (C. Netrasiri Beauty x Rth. Orange Nuggett)

The colour of the petals and sepals open greenish yellow but darken to an orangey chrome yellow, probably due to the colour influence of the pollen parent.