It's been a long time since I mentioned my orchid. I realized there were some major advances in the field, and wanted to post a little update. With any luck, this will be the last pre-bloom post. You'll recall that my orchid is a Colmanara, and as such the flowers will look like this when it is damn good and ready.
The stalk. Note the tallness.
Here's the lower part of the plant. You can also see part of my African Violet to the left. He's doing VERY well, also.
Here's a shot of the base. Note the large bulbous organ, which serves as a moisture retainer. You can see all the lovely root growth, an indelible sign of health.
A slight close-up of some of the branches of the flower stalk. It appears there will be multiple flowers per branch.
That's about it. I'll be back with more when the blooming happens. I'm quite proud, of course.
On a completely unrelated note, a number of blogs I follow have spontaneously been set to only give the first 50 words or whatever on their RSS feeds. I'm not sure if it's purposeful (a new trend?) or if Blogger just kind of does that from time to time. Either way, if you have a blog I beg you to have full text RSS feeds. Thank you.
As for the blogger thing - there is a way to check. Click on Settings, then Site Feed, and then you may set the length at NONE, Full, or Short. Short will give only the first paragraph or the first 225 charactes, whichever is shorter. Mine is set to full. If it is one of the ones you have problems with, blame blogger.
As for the flowers - pray nobody takes anything you said out of context.
Nope, yours is perfect. Ironically, the writers of the blogs which have changed recently probably don't read me. It was worth a shot, though.