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Yes, under fluorescent light (daylight type) at about 6000 lux in a terrarium at 60-80% RH and room temperature (18-23°C in winter, 20-30° in midsummer). It get the same fertilizer than all other paphs and they are doing well. This is the only one where the buds are dying.

My P. vietnamense is growing very well. Every year a new bud comes out, reaches about 10 cm lenght and than stop growing. Than the leaves of a new shoot came out and the bud is dying: I thought that the root maybe in a bad condition but they look perfect: What am I doing wrong...

Yesterday I visited the "Dresdner Eastern" exhibition, the biggest orchid exhibition in Europe. Thousands of orchids but I could only make about 200 pictures. Too much for a thread so I created a gallery which you will find here. I hope you will enjoy it. Update: a short movie showing the...

I cannot confim that sphagnum has problems with fertilizer. I have some sphagnum that grows on the bottom of my terrarium, the water there has about 2000µS/cm. The sphganum and other mosses there grows very well. Some Phal roots also has contact with this water - no problem for them. But I...

This could be difficult: sphagnum is always wet, perlite and pumice look the same being dry or wet, only lava changes his color when getting dry. I will keep all 4 substrates wet to see if the air between the substrates will save the roots from rotting.

3 times with fertilizer, 1 time without it. The pH is unknown, but since I changed to that fertilizer, my orchids (incl. Paphs) grow much better.

I use osmosis water with complete fertilizer (incl. Ca + Mg) at 600 µS/cm.

2 weeks ago I bought a flask with 12 seedlings of P. thaianum. With these I wanted to test some mineral substrates. I chose lava, pumice, perlite (sponge rock ?) and, as a control, living sphagnum (peat moss). Here are the seedlings (sizes are in cm): After deflasking, roots look very...

Oh no! I was just deflasking 12 seedlings yesterday.

Looks like you can see it only if you´re in UK.

Yes, with the moss and the green algae on the leaves.

Should be fragrant but it isn´t. :sob:

Here is another one: http://www.asendorfer-orchideenzucht.com/assbb/pi1/pd59.html

The price depends on how many years you will wait for the first flower. You can ask Popow ( http://www.popow-orchids.com ) if he has an adult one.

Im watering twice a day to get the mosses alive that where on the plant when I get it. Maybe it´s the wrong way but we will see ...

Your plant looks great! Mine was flowering for 14 days, it has been watered twice a day.

If I look at the cork where the plant is mounted i found different types of living mosses, so I think this plant never dried out. Looks like it was kept in high humidity, watered once a day and got enough light.

Yes, one spike has 4 flowers now, the other one 2.

Well I just ordered one and get this nice plant. It´s a good nursery.

Not really my work, got the plant only 2 weeks ago with some buds. The flowers open quickly.