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which_chickOkay, these are plants and they do not do much in the day-to-day, but if you take before-n-after pix, you can sometimes see how they get on. Also, eagle-eyed people can maybe see some progress on the book room project BEFORE the big reveal, which I guess is also somewhat exciting for values of small excitement.
I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying,
Gateway is my big orchid, the one that was from NYR's mom's estate. I got this one not-as-a-rehab but as a "needs a home" plant. He looks like this:
Gateway was never in real bad shape, honestly, and he's is making a flowering spike, which you can see there against the clean beige-y wall color and pretend-wood plank flooring which is waterproof and easy to keep clean. (Color on these pictures is slightly off because purple-red plant lights are on behind the photographer.) Note large, non-floppy leaves with a bit of shine. This is a pretty happy orchid.
This is "Roots" on acquisition:
Note curled, wrinkled leaves, lack of in-pot roots, etc. This is a dehydrated and unhappy orchid that was, for some reason, planted in coir? I can't even...
Here is "Roots" today:
Note that the existing leaves now have some structure and that the NEW leaves are smooth and not wrinkled or floppy.
This is "Blue" on acquisition. Blue was one of those dyed-blue franken orchids and he looked pretty damn sad on top of being dyed blue.
Here's "Blue" today:
Lookit all those new roots. Super fancy, there, Blue!
The most-recent rehab is "Cabot". I'm not sure I have an on-acquisition pic of Cabot. (He's called Cabot because he's in a Cabot yogurt container with holes poked into it.) But, here he is today:
So, the phals are doing OK and they look better than when I got them. Hell, Gateway is flowering this year unless something goes drastically wrong.
Remodel progress: Flooring is all down because the last box arrived last week. Painting is done. Some lazy ass needs to finish installing the baseboard. Some things have been moved in (sewing machine, fiber toys) but there needs to be some sort of reference shelving installed for the remaining books and stuff. I'm thinking about how I want to do that.
I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying,
Gateway is my big orchid, the one that was from NYR's mom's estate. I got this one not-as-a-rehab but as a "needs a home" plant. He looks like this:
Gateway was never in real bad shape, honestly, and he's is making a flowering spike, which you can see there against the clean beige-y wall color and pretend-wood plank flooring which is waterproof and easy to keep clean. (Color on these pictures is slightly off because purple-red plant lights are on behind the photographer.) Note large, non-floppy leaves with a bit of shine. This is a pretty happy orchid.
This is "Roots" on acquisition:
Note curled, wrinkled leaves, lack of in-pot roots, etc. This is a dehydrated and unhappy orchid that was, for some reason, planted in coir? I can't even...
Here is "Roots" today:
Note that the existing leaves now have some structure and that the NEW leaves are smooth and not wrinkled or floppy.
This is "Blue" on acquisition. Blue was one of those dyed-blue franken orchids and he looked pretty damn sad on top of being dyed blue.
Here's "Blue" today:
Lookit all those new roots. Super fancy, there, Blue!
The most-recent rehab is "Cabot". I'm not sure I have an on-acquisition pic of Cabot. (He's called Cabot because he's in a Cabot yogurt container with holes poked into it.) But, here he is today:
So, the phals are doing OK and they look better than when I got them. Hell, Gateway is flowering this year unless something goes drastically wrong.
Remodel progress: Flooring is all down because the last box arrived last week. Painting is done. Some lazy ass needs to finish installing the baseboard. Some things have been moved in (sewing machine, fiber toys) but there needs to be some sort of reference shelving installed for the remaining books and stuff. I'm thinking about how I want to do that.
