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Beautiful! I love that twist of the petals.

Beautiful!

Oh no, these are gigas, they are harvested measured and repotted. To eat them would be quite an expensive and untasty meal. For eating mainly paeonifolius and konjac are used and I don't have these species any more... no I didn't eat them, I gave them away, kids love to see them growing!

That house and garden would be great, unfortunately by distance a little unconveniant for daily watering...

Unfortunately orthene (acephate) is not availale in Europe...

Thanks Linus for that great video! Several of my species are from Alan. Soon I'll get another species from his collection. I get it in return for a contribution to the ongoing care for his collection since he tragically died last year. His website and his collection won't be lost in future. Have...

Pics will come soon, when all flowers are open. Update: 10 are open at least 4 more are on the way... BTW: To prevent one inflorescence growing into a light tube I put a little weight on it to bend it down. Soon it will bend a bit anyway. So I don't have to move it. Do you think that could do...

I have no comparison, but as my conditions are hot with medium humidity, they dry out rather quickly. I think the size of the pot has more influence on drying.

With tropical Amorphophallus there is always harvesting time... Two Amorphophallus gigas:

Wonderful!

Thanks, Rick. Yes, 12 h/d the lights are on. There is a little of daylight, but as it is about 2 m behind a south facing window that is nearly nothing.

I don't think that moss is a problem. In contrast to algae it is even an indicator of a healthy root environment. To avoid it and still be able to see the roots I have a pot-in-pot system. A transparent pot stands in a opaque pot of the same size and form.

yes it is from Hilmar. Sorry for the light, but as it is such a regular bloomer i don't take fotos each time. This is just a foto for quick documentation... ...Rudolf, imagine how wonderful a vietnamense or appletonianum appears in that light, you need not bother with photoshop any more...

It grows in a 21 cm pot. Next repotting I'll need a bucket...

Bulbophyllum are my second biggest genus of orchids (14 plants) after Paphs. I like especially the section Macrobulbon. They go quite well along with Paphs.

Ray, I'm very grateful for this. I hope I got the calculations right in accordance with my equippement. To get 1/2 tsp per gal I put 1/4 tsp (~ 1.2 ml) in 2 l. That is on my scale ~1700 mg Epsom Salt per 2 liters of water. As I understand it that would be 850 ppm. My EC-meter shows an...

Hello Ray, so I'll give some more. What would you suggest? Above you mentioned 1-2 ml MgSO4 solution per liter. As I have Epsom Salt as powder how much would that be in mg? As for the calculations I'm completly stuck. 1 ppm of Epsom Salt = 7 µS. Is Epsom Salt so very different from other salts...

My only mounted orchid. I never thought it could work. It's hanging at my window sill and irrigation goes with my paphs, once or twice a week.

Hello Ray, your help is much appreciated! I tried that, as you mentioned it to me on a similar problem. I gave it once a high dose of epsom salt in water (300 µS) and twice a small amount with my regular fertilizer. But on the gigantifolium there was no recognizable effect. I hope the dosage was ok?

When the flowers are opened I'll take it down to make some better fotos. For now it's just some pics for documentation, sorry for that...