{"id":760,"date":"2009-09-12T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2010-05-02T20:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T04:23:01","slug":"mini-phal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/12\/mini-phal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Phal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular orchids sold today are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phals, or Moth Orchids<\/a>. Since their blooms can last for months, and they grow in the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/light.html\">light<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/temperature.html\">temperature<\/a> ranges of our homes and offices, their popularity is easy to understand. It&#8217;s no wonder that orchid growers have concentrated their attentions on this genus, and created thousands of hybrids. Over the past few years, I&#8217;ve seen a great selection of smaller and smaller hybrids, perfectly suited for a windowsill, a crowded desk, or a city apartment. This mini Phal hardly takes up any space at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_4_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-771\" title=\"Mini Phal flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_4_640px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Phal flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_1_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-768\" title=\"Mini Phal flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_1_640px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Phal flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_1_640px-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_1_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_1_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_3_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-770\" title=\"Mini Phal side view\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_3_640px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Phal side view\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_3_640px-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_3_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_3_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_6_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-795\" title=\"Mini Phal plant and flowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_6_640px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Phal plant and flowers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too easy to rationalize bringing home more beautiful blooms when the entire plant is only 8 inches (20 cm) tall. These flowers are just 1.25\u00a0 inches (3.2 cm) across. Their diminutive size belies how sturdy they are. Like their larger Phal cousins, it&#8217;s even possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/20\/forcing-an-orchid-to-re-bloom\/\">to force these mini orchids to rebloom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_2_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-769\" title=\"Mini Phal close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_2_640px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Phal close up\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_5_640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-767\" title=\"Mini moth orchid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_5_640px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mini moth orchid\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_5_640px-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_5_640px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Mini_Phalaenopsis_5_640px.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 69px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">It&#8217;s too easy to rationalize bringing home more beautiful blooms when the plant is only 8 inches (20 cm) tall, flowers and all. The flowers themselves are only 1.25\u00a0 inches (3.2 cm) across.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular orchids sold today are Phals, or Moth Orchids. Since their blooms can last for months, and they grow in the same light and temperature ranges of our homes and offices, their popularity is easy to understand. It&#8217;s no wonder that orchid growers have concentrated their attentions on this genus, and created thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-orchids","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}