Saturday, February 16, 2013
Free Time
It's a four day weekend, and I spent the second day of it watercoloring. It's supposed to be a gift for one of my mom's colleagues.
Friday, February 15, 2013
A Fresh Start
Finally, it's over! My first semester of junior year is over, and I have two more semesters to go before I need to worry about college acceptance/rejection letters. Anyways, it's been a while since I last updated anything. I'm just so busy with homework, studying, badminton, and everything else that a teenager has to go through. These are a couple of highlights in the month of January and February.
This is a project that I completed around winter break. I felt artsy one day...and decided to paint one of my favorite orchids in watercolor.
A MAXILLARIA TENUIFOLIA SPIKE!!!! AHHH SO EXCITED!!!I was first introduced to this orchid when visiting Napa Valley Orchid's greenhouse, and my mom and I wanted to have this orchid so badly because it smelled like coconut (though my mom swears it smells like chocolate). But the owner, Debra, deterred us from buying it from her because the blooms weren't as spectacular as she would have liked. Anyways, I got this orchid from Kawamoto orchids last year around April and it hasn't decided to bloom until this month. I think I might have cracked the code of how to make a finicky Maxilaria Tenuifolia to bloom. I put it in my east window with the leaves pressing against class (it usually involves a couple of burned tips). It's upstairs where the heater is on most of the night and most of the day if somebody is home --> about 70 degrees everyday. Also...it's in hydroponics. That could also be a factor. I've got 5 of these spikes, and some more are popping out between the dead sheaths every week. I can't wait to smell it!
This is a project that I completed around winter break. I felt artsy one day...and decided to paint one of my favorite orchids in watercolor.
My Dendrobium Amethystoglossum decided to bloom. This was seriously a result of managed neglect. This is the first time that I ever gave an orchid a "winter rest" where you're not supposed to water it for months and keep it on the cool side. I tried it out, starting it from the month of November to maybe before Winter Break. I placed it outside in my little plastic greenhouse that I got from my local Lowe's one Christmas, and forgot about it for a couple of weeks. Then I brought it upstairs to water it in my bathroom where there's little to no sunlight, and forgot to take it out of the bathroom for maybe two weeks. One day, when I was brushing my teeth, I noticed these little green nobs poking out from the canes. Viola! Dendrobium Amethystoglossum spikes, and not only one but four spikes.
A MAXILLARIA TENUIFOLIA SPIKE!!!! AHHH SO EXCITED!!!I was first introduced to this orchid when visiting Napa Valley Orchid's greenhouse, and my mom and I wanted to have this orchid so badly because it smelled like coconut (though my mom swears it smells like chocolate). But the owner, Debra, deterred us from buying it from her because the blooms weren't as spectacular as she would have liked. Anyways, I got this orchid from Kawamoto orchids last year around April and it hasn't decided to bloom until this month. I think I might have cracked the code of how to make a finicky Maxilaria Tenuifolia to bloom. I put it in my east window with the leaves pressing against class (it usually involves a couple of burned tips). It's upstairs where the heater is on most of the night and most of the day if somebody is home --> about 70 degrees everyday. Also...it's in hydroponics. That could also be a factor. I've got 5 of these spikes, and some more are popping out between the dead sheaths every week. I can't wait to smell it!
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