KyushuCalanthe
Just call me Tom
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Just to prove I've not given up on plants (or this forum), here is a pic of a grow room built just before winter set in. Not perfect, but it keeps tender stuff growing for the most part. It was built with just a stapler, tape measure, screw driver and a hand saw. The structure was put together strictly using L and T shaped metal brackets and screws. The plastic was put on with staples.
Inside it stays very moist, too moist in fact. I have to sop the excess water off the floor every week or there'd be a lake in there! Here is a variegated form of Alocasia macrorrhiza and a noid paph.
And the yellow minicatt that's called me Dad for the last 7 years is finally getting big! Pretty sure it is Pot. Free Spirit or something close...err...I mean Rlc. Free Spirit.
Ophrys tenthredinifera probably could withstand the winter here, but I'm not willing to subject it to the outside elements. Besides, this January was the coldest on record since 1962 and many outdoor plants were badly hurt.
A really mini mini is the nearly unheard of Gastrochilus toramanus, a Japanese native. It is tiny, perhaps half the stature of G. matsuran, another rare native species. Each flower is around 5mm across.
Another native of the warmest parts of mainland Japan and more common in the subtropical forests of Okinawa and surrounding islands is Tainia laxiflora. It is grown inside, but it can handle light frost with overhead cover.
That's it for now. Lots of other stuff about to come into flower and spring is coming within the next month. I'll try to keep more current posting shots.
Inside it stays very moist, too moist in fact. I have to sop the excess water off the floor every week or there'd be a lake in there! Here is a variegated form of Alocasia macrorrhiza and a noid paph.
And the yellow minicatt that's called me Dad for the last 7 years is finally getting big! Pretty sure it is Pot. Free Spirit or something close...err...I mean Rlc. Free Spirit.
Ophrys tenthredinifera probably could withstand the winter here, but I'm not willing to subject it to the outside elements. Besides, this January was the coldest on record since 1962 and many outdoor plants were badly hurt.
A really mini mini is the nearly unheard of Gastrochilus toramanus, a Japanese native. It is tiny, perhaps half the stature of G. matsuran, another rare native species. Each flower is around 5mm across.
Another native of the warmest parts of mainland Japan and more common in the subtropical forests of Okinawa and surrounding islands is Tainia laxiflora. It is grown inside, but it can handle light frost with overhead cover.
That's it for now. Lots of other stuff about to come into flower and spring is coming within the next month. I'll try to keep more current posting shots.
Free Spirit is cute..
