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Thanks Chris! I feel better now with the placement of mine. I knew you were trying these in the cool tank at one point, and I'd "retired" my fridge for the school year...too much of a pain to move it back and forth. Any idea on what blooming size is? Mine's probably 5-6 mature bulbs with at...

Wow! I think I paid more than $20 for my measly 3 bulb division. You definitely did well buying from Andy! Thanks for the culture! Sounds like I'm giving it ok conditions. It's currently putting out a new growth. Hopefully yours bounce back. Do you think the decline could have been the result...

Hmm...I've done a little digging, and now I'm only more confused than I was before posting :confused: I agree that I could very well be population variation between mountains and that this is just a big confusing species complex. So far, my plants is small with the green, angled pseudobulbs...

I don't remember. Was it on here? I always thought tricanaliferum had the corkscrew sepals.

Rick, that is trachyanthum, I believe. The real tricanaliferum is almost non-existant in cultivation. Here is what it looks like: http://www.dendroboard.com/forum/plants/12062-tis-season-what-have-you-got-blooming-277.html Any culture info that you have would be appreciated!

Does anyone here grow this? Rick? Chris? I have one that I'm growing intermediate, and it's doing fairly well. I'm just trying to figure out a blooming time for this one and how others are growing theirs. Thanks!

What temperature range do you grow this one in?

I had tenebrosum once. It wasn't the healthiest piece and never thrived. It's a species I will try again, though. The ones I have probably get to around 24" when you account for the leaves and bulbs. I water very often in the growing season and give pretty high light (probably close to Catt...

I think you already answered part of your question :) Catasetum, Cycnoches, Clowesia, Cyrtopodium, some Dendrobiums, Lycastes like aromatica, Habenaria, Cynorkis, Corybas, Pterostylis, some terrestrials like Bletilla... All of those do relatively well in those temps. and go dormant for at...

In regards to necessary humidity to grow Pleurothallids versus low enough humidity to generate an adequate cooling through evaporative cooling, I think growing these in terrariums (high humidity) and hooking up an outside cooling system using home air instead of terrarium air (lower humidity)...

Depending on the species or species in the background of the hybrid, you may be able to get away with just keeping these indoors in a terrarium. There are some nice true warm growers and some that are I-W don't seem all that hard to grow as long as you get healthy plants to begin with. I've even...

I would look into those "cool pots" from The Orchid Gallery. I think they are similar to your technique here, but may be slightly different. Also, the Hygrolon looks to be an interesting media, especially if you used it similar to the Epiweb IIS system or those clay tubes. They would stay...

Awesome! Adding the fan should really help with cooling. In order to maximize evaporative cooling effects, you want to keep the outside environment drier, so that more moisture can evaporate more easily into the air. Make sure you find a good medium between the humidity needs of the plant and...

I've never seen this one! I really like the green venation, though.

That's along the same lines I was thinking Nat! It's called besseae var. besseae because it's a regular besseae and not var. dalessandroi. I think most of us here (correctly or incorrectly) look at dalessandroi as a separate species, so that's why the besseae var. besseae designation seemed unusual.

Odd, I wonder what the red besseae is called then? Was the yellow form formerly var. flavum or was it forma flavum?

Same here! The besseae I posted a month or so ago came from Paphiness.

No, it's not Rick. I got a piece of this from Chris in a trade a while back. The unknown is a species from Papua New Guinea. I got some information on the unknown, but I'm not sure I've ever posted it. Apparently, it was collected by Walter Teague in the 70s but never got widespread into...

I wouldn't necessarily say rambling. The inter-bulb space is relatively short, but I find it odd that it grows in pretty much a straight line. The whole plant is 2-3" long. I haven't detected a scent and have found that many of these mini species are not unpleasantly scented.

Mini species from Thailand, Borneo, and Java. I-W grower.