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World wide shortage at the moment. Someone told me it has something to do with the NZ moss people selling the land/growing fields. We have to wait for China, Chile, other NZ (?) folk to take up the slack. There's plenty of moss but someone needs to collect it, bag it and sell it.

No it dries out quickly in the clay pot and in the heat and air I give it. I let it get about 70% dry and then water - which is every 2 days.

Not multi growth. All separate plants. They came as a re-plated clump and I left them like that. I think it was the right decision....... I find small plants by themselves in small pots always do poorly.

I was fortunate to obtain some cahnii. No flower yet. They (more than one plant here) have been in this pot for about 4 months. They are kept very warm and fed and watered a lot. They grow very easily it seems. Mix is bark, pumice, polystyrene, a few crushed oak leaves here and there and crushed...

A completely magnificent flower! The leaf shot show how much K (and possibly other nutrients) has been removed from the leaves.

A beautiful flower. What do your min temps get down to in Honolulu?

Remember Xavier used to suggest that he could not get the deep green that he was after with nitrate only feeding? From what I have seen over the years I would say that I tend to agree. This bloke... enkoshi1.html grew beautiful clean brachys with great coloured leaves using Cal nitrate in rock...

Yes I grow them. I have one mature plant and a few seedlings left from a flask. They grow in intermediate temps. Minimum goes down to about 15 and occasionally 12C In other words they seem to be slightly cooler growing than most. Same as aphrodite Var formosana and slightly cooler than...

It doesn't seem to matter that much but if you don't want to give N to your plants at a particular time, it's easier to have some solid Cal Carbonate in the mix to check acidity. There was a trial with orchids in 50 to 75% shells (canunda - a soft fossil type shell) and they grew fine. You can...

Those ferns are not invasive and grow anywhere. They are limited in their habitat to carbonate rock fissures though they obviousy grow colder than paphs.. The above findings will apply to all plants evolved to grow on limestone. (or limestone soils) They pretty much grow like many paphs do...

Plants from alkaline habitats can grow equally well with ph in the acid or alkaline range as long as the Ca is at least 4 times higher than the Mg How you do that is up to you. I use calcium carbonate and maybe some gypsum.

Do you use the same size gravel throughout the pot? Has your watering changed?

I don't know MW. I read they come from a couple of thousand meters so they may be able to tolerate normal intermediate. I'm not sure if that's true. Most Burmese orchids tend to be intermediate growers. Certainly not as hot as niveum and leucochilum and thianum. I have had them warm (18-30) so...

It was from one of the first flasks back in 2011.

The second of the seedlings to flower. This one has 3 new shoots on the way but both flowers have needed support. I hope this is not a regular feature of this species. Otherwise they have been good growers.

Thanks for the comments all. Here is what I did... Once the seedling is doing well and ready for a repot, you need to find a pot with drainage holes ONLY IN THE CENTER NOT THE SIDES. The reason for this is that -as you know - it puts out long underground suckers. Sometimes they come out sideways...

It's not the best form but it's still armeniacum. It's has taught me how to grow the species and the better clones are on the way. image upload site

Yes I think ''Deborah'' is from a selfing. It is almost identical but not quite. Mine is more elongated than Pendentive.

I have a wild form of walkeriana which never throws 2 leaves. I don't know what that means. It could be a subspecies or something. All my others can throw 2 leaves from time to time. With pendentive and it's children it is very common. At least 50/50 for me.