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Hi Brachy, Another one from French Guiana! This is amazing. Are there others? Regarding the importation of orchids from the European union, you don't need any phyto (at least for French Guiana, I don't know about Guadalupe). I just confirmed this information with the DAAF (authority for plants...

This is worrisome! I’m very sorry for your bad experience. I will keep your experience is mind!

FANTASTIC, many thanks to all for the great advices!!!! I'm already making my wishlist for my next trip next month to France!!!

Many thanks for your imput! Very interesting! I will order the plants when I'm in France and bring them back legally to French Guiana in my luggage.

Arghhh, I wish I was in 2019 right now! If you ever have plants available I'm greatly interested

Hi everyone, I am starting a slipper collection again! I am in Europe (well in French Guiana which is a department of FRANCE). From what I understand, the main European nurseries are Exotic Plant Company, Asendorfer, Wichmann and Schwerter. Am I missing some others? Exotic Plant Company seems to...

Yes absolutely, I was in Peru for my postdocs. I left Canada just after I completed my PhD. In Peru I was officially employed by Canada for the first few years, then later by the European Union. It was an amazing experience, but at the same time I have to admit that it was stressfull to be...

Hi everyone, I have been a member of the Slippertalk communities since 2009. At that time, I was living in Montreal, CANADA (see my first post presentation here: Hi from Montréal - Canada) and I had a small collection of slipper orchids. In 2011, I moved to Tarapoto PERU where I stayed for 7...

From my experience, this region is always extremely wet. Now, during the summer, ''sometime'' their is a sunny day an temperature are generallly a few degrees higher. During the winter, never seen a day without rain. It is always surprising to see some Phragmipedium species (e.g. kovachii...

Yes it felt very cold when we were there. I believe day temperatures are around 20C and night at 12C. On the other hand we live in Tarapoto which is 300m above sea level in the Amazon so it felt very cold particularly for us. We are in T-shirt in the pictures because 1)all our other clothes...

These pictures were taken during our last population assessment, always a splendor. Even if we try to keep ourselves professional and have done this type of assessment multiple times, a full blooming population of Kovachii always steal a smile. Here Cesar and Jose Marco taking is...

I was too under the impression it might need calcium. I normally water all my phrag with RO water with constant 50-100ppm of fertilizer. I'm switching it right back to tap water (mine has a lot of calcium).

For the last 5 months or so (I've had this plant for more than 2 years now), I've been observing weird discoloration of the top leaves of my Phrag kovachii x walisii. The leaves look healthy in morphology but the color is wrong. All my other phrags have a nice healthy green coloration and...

I know Madre de Dios very well too and it is even poorer in orchids than the Tarapoto region. The first one looks like a gesneriaceae and the second one an aroid.

I can confirm therse are not orchids. I've saw these plants numerous time as I work in the San Martin Department forest and none have characteristics of orchids in both flowers and leaf venation. The forests around Tarapoto are not very rich in orchids unless you go on the ridges of the...

Yes these plants are collected for a quick buck. The only known population of Kovachii is from a National Park and yet a few hundreds (4-500) plants are collected each year from there and sold for 10-40 Nuevo Soles. In Peru their is a big domestic orchid traffic and the problem with Kovachii is...

These plants are indeed very rare at the type locality. All the plants have been collected for a quick buck by campesinos and populations have never regenareted. I've been working in the mountains of the type locality for the last 4 years and I only found 2 small populations of around 10 plants...

Hi Smartie, I would really be interested in knowing where it can be found in Canada. Math

Exquis!!!! These red Phrag are fabulous. As always, incredible breeding JP. Math

I would be interested in knowing too. All the best Math