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Gangajay wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the welcome!
Jenn, you're right, I get very little direct sun, except right at the front of the balcony.
I think the trick with Phalaenopsis is just to be patient. For ages, mine just produced keikis rather than flowers, which was nice if irritating. Then, tragically, one phal produced a flower spike which some careless person brushed against and broke off before the flowers opened (grrr).
Finally, after a couple of years (!) two plants flowered, but just before I left to spend Christmas with my sister! LOL
This is a shot of the other phal