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Just wanted to share my grow space and orchid collection. 🙂

Easy to find, or easy to keep?

Does anyone have these in the US?

I found two! Really surprised I was able to find some floating around.

Is it safe to pollinate a single growth brachy? I’ve read that generally you don’t want to pollinate plants until they have at least two mature growths, but I’ve also read that brachys are short-lived. How would you weigh these two things against one another?

My roth seedling’s oldest leaf browned, which is concerning to me since it’s a young plant. Is this normal or is there something wrong? I also attached photos of what I think is mesophyll collapse, but I welcome ya’ll’s opinions. I really want this guy to succeed.

I had never heard of the term! Learn something new everyday. The wound has been sealed for sometime, but I have some more of these specks on other plants, too

I laughed at first but after looking at pictures and videos...it just might be. 😂 I’ve had some large house flies buzzing around the space lately too, so I can’t rule fly poop out as an explanation for this

I don’t think they are. Definitely a sticky goo that seems to be sitting on the surface of the leaf (no penetration into the leaf)

What is this? I saw this stuff on three of my paphs and they’re all close to each other, so I suspect whatever it is to be transmissible. Conditions in my grow space: Humidity 60s-70s Temperature 70s F Top watering every 4-5 days, then fertilize 75ppm K-Lite Lights on 16 off 8

Has this cross been made? I haven’t been able to find any for sale. If anyone here has one in their collection they’re willing to share a division of, please reach out. 🙂

I got a flask from the sibling cross ‘Bahamut’ x ‘Oliver’ GM/DOG 🙂

They’ve also been moved now to the 10 gallon tank. Pebbles + water to raise relative humidity, a small computer fan to provide airflow, and a glass lid to adjust humidity as needed. Currently on the shelf with my paphs, phrags, and oncidiums with LED lights reading about 30-35 FC, relative...

All seedlings so far have experienced very little browning, barring the niveum flask which I had to do a ton of clipping to. I suspect that as this was the last group of seedlings to receive haircuts late at night, I was fatigued and may have been a bit rough in my handling of them and bruised...

An idea that I have bouncing around in my head is keeping the seedlings in a 10 gallon tank with a small computer fan. I figured I could adjust humidity and maintain airflow with the setup.

At this point I plan to let the seedlings air out once a day for about an hour over the next two weeks and gradually increase that time until they’re at the same relative humidity as the rest of my grow space (about 65% currently). I also plan on cutting out any browning that I find and spraying...

I was aiming for 100% humidity and gradually lowering it, so I placed the lids my pots and let it sit for a day or two. I noticed browning on leaves that made contact with the lid and remained wet, so per Sam’s recommendation I clipped the browned sections and sprayed with Physan 20 at the...

With quarantine in full swing, I’ve decided to really lean into the hobby and buy my first flasks. I took advantage of Sam’s Fourth of July sale and purchased five flasks— thaianum, niveum, leuchochilum, philippinense, and rothschildianum. Here they are on 7/8, freshly potted in a mix of...

I’ve been thinking about y’all’s replies and I think I know what could have happened. At night I’ve been opening the air vents to allow cold air into the basement so that I can get a temperature swing at night. My fans are located below this air vent, and this week I had them blowing directly on...

Drying is definitely possible. Where the plant is positioned normally it was always the closest one to the fan.