Hello and welcome by the orchid saga. My name is Elkion Viersmart and today we're going to have a close look at this beauty next to me. Maybe you do recognize her because I did film her last year because then she had a crazy amount of spikes. Before I forget this is her name tag. So this one has a name. Well actually it's the parents name the crosses but this is she and yeah last year I did a video. I she had 13 spikes so like I mentioned in this video in this video I going to leave the spikes like I always do. I try to leave my plans alone as much as I can. So I do not cut spikes until they started to brown up a little bit and I have a few here that are starting to brown up after the first blooming of last year but still they are alive. They started to grow again. They started to bloom again and she did make more spikes, new spikes. So today we have a total of 18 spikes on this fell. It's absolutely crazy but it's beautiful. It's just like a bouquet next to me. It's an I love the colors. I absolutely love the colors. So and it's obviously a miniature miniature fell but she's large. She is miniature but she's absolutely large. So yes she's beautiful and I did do last year. I don't think I filmed it. No I don't I didn't. But it is a repot. It's very similar. Actually the same process that I did with the Leodoro. We did on camera not that long ago. So I did put her up again with the aerial roots and she has now one that is we can class as a new aerial root as well. Yeah the rest is still in the pot but I'm going to take her out and of course in the later on we'll count the spikes. So you know I'm not not lying but you can see that there are a lot of the beauties. A lot of spikes but let's have a look inside of the pot. So I'm going to lift her. Oh yeah look at this. I need to adjust. I thought I could put her on a table but I can't because we have too many roots coming out of the pot. Let me see how can I do this. This is fairly heavy. So yeah a few drips on the floor of water is not that the end of the world but you can see I have a lot of roots and yeah mainly pumice. I have a few parts a few bits of the lecastel in there but it was mainly obviously the pumice and yeah you can see she is doing fabulously. See I love this setup. I believe that the root system is almost two or three times the size of the plant itself but that's how she was for me. She just took off when I bought her. I just did a repot her and she took off. She really enjoys this setup. So yeah let me zoom in so we can have a closer look at the market as well and then we first need to start of course counting these spikes. So yeah that's a little bit better. Okay here we go you guys. I tried to do this as clearly as I can on camera. So here we have one spike and there is another one so there's two. This is number three. Number four here. Number five. Number six. Number seven. Number eight. Number nine. Number ten. Number eleven. So this is eleven. Let's move to the other side. This part is eleven. Number twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen. And now I'm going to move her around a little bit so you can see the back of the plant. So those were fourteen. Number fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. And this is also a separate spike and that is number eighteen. Number eighteen. So yeah look at the back of the plant. Hey heck of a lot of roots. Isn't that beautiful? This one really likes to grow roots. Let me put those in like that. But anyhow we have a basil cakey here as well. And believe it or not. Let's me turn this around. I'm going to adjust the camera a little bit. So we are zoomed in again but here is a new spike starting. Hope you can see it there it is. So that will be number nineteen. But it's not in bloom so I did count only the blooming ones for this video. Those were eighteen. But the number nineteen is here I believe. Just about them. I think I'm not sure if you can see it. It's just another one starting. I think that is going to be a spike as well. And over here that I think is going to be a another basil cakey. So yeah and we have a cakey here down in the pot as well. So that would be three cakeies. Let me see here we are. This is a cakey as well. Let me check do we have more. I don't think we have more cakes. So probably three cakeies. And then just a nice close up of the blooms. I really really love them. I think they are a beautiful color. Yellowish color with those a bit of burgundy red I think. Spots on there and some purple in there as well. So yeah this is and some white. So she has the colors there. I like so much. And I think that the blooms could have been a little bit bigger. But I think that's because of the amount of spikes. She has a lot of energy that she's using up and all those spikes. But I saw some same crosses that have a slightly larger maybe this size blue. So just just a little bit bigger. But I don't mind because I love the show of this. So yeah you guys I think this is absolutely beautiful. And I'm not sure maybe a slight fragrance to it. There very very mind a melt very melt. So not much of a fragrance but anyhow if you have such a display who needs a fragrance it would be a nice bonus of course. But I really don't mind. So yeah this is one of my pride and joy as you guys. So again I'm going to leave the spikes. That's what I do like I mentioned earlier in this video. I'm just going to leave it and we shall see next year. But I think I wouldn't be surprised if we have a few less spikes. You never know of course because the basic cake is can start to shoot out spike as well. So maybe I should start to compensate in that way. Who knows but anyhow. I never ever thought that I could make a video next to a fail with 18 spikes. It's just it's just amazing. Absolutely beautiful. And the rest as we saw it just not that long ago I did an update on all of my files. I have a few of them who have three four or five spikes but 18 your eyes 18 is a lot. Anyhow I also have a video on how I take care of my fails. So if you want to know more about it whoops I have that in the video just have a link as well I should say. But yeah this one is just it's just in the plant itself. Of course I give her what she likes apparently but it's apparently across that does like to make multiple spikes. And if you have quite the ideal conditions for her she is going to make a few more but still 18 is a lot. Anyhow I love it. I hope you like I love that as well. At least thank you for watching and of course if you have any questions or suggestions please leave them in the comment section below. For now maybe you want to give it a thumbs up and of course if you didn't already have consider subscribing to my channel would be awesome as well. Again thank you for watching and I really hope to see you at the one of my next videos. Bye bye.