For the history, those plants have been collected 'not very long' before the display, by a very careful collector.
If the plants are removed carefully, they look like long-time cultivated - and I know the history of that display.
look at that, and imagine a collector picking up the plants tenderly:
There is a special treatment specific to the jungle sanderianum. Medical camphor alcohol at 10mL/L as a drench. It restarts roots within about 2 weeks and the plants stay plump and fresh throughout the complete restart process. Courtesy of Henry Azadehdel back long time ago. For some reason it does not work on young plants, neither on other species...
It has a kind of instinctive basis, the old dying leaves of jungle sanderianum smells a bit like camphor actually, so maybe that's the origin. But I know that it works all the time.
The highest number of plants in bloom I have seen at the same time was over 200 in 2001 in Miri, at that collector place. Amazing display. Another time was at Au Yong place, but only 100 plants from the same colony, and that time, cultivated for a year or two. He had a secret place to store the sanderianum, the first nursery was the public one, then at the back of that one, cross the road, and go up the hill by about 200m. already sanderianum there, then cross again the pond, the next road, third nursery with some hundreds plants in 2004.
It is funny to note that all the sands of a single colony bloom at the exact, very, same time in the wild, plus or minus 2-3 days, completely synchronized. They stay the same after collection. This winter I am going to bloom quite a few...
Another not so funny thing with sanderianum and rothschildianum, they love to make roots just before they bloom. If you miss those roots, or repot AFTER they bloom, they have a harder time to establish... The best time to repot them is when you can feel the flower stem coming, not later. And never break the roots.
Most growers in Taiwan cannot grow properly jungle sanderianum past 2-3 years... Apparently the seedlings are easier to grow, at least the Bruno Manser x Penanko, I have seen a couple of pictures - including Leo one and another one on theorchidsource right now, and the leaves are definitely different from the jungle plant.
If the plants are removed carefully, they look like long-time cultivated - and I know the history of that display.
look at that, and imagine a collector picking up the plants tenderly:
There is a special treatment specific to the jungle sanderianum. Medical camphor alcohol at 10mL/L as a drench. It restarts roots within about 2 weeks and the plants stay plump and fresh throughout the complete restart process. Courtesy of Henry Azadehdel back long time ago. For some reason it does not work on young plants, neither on other species...
It has a kind of instinctive basis, the old dying leaves of jungle sanderianum smells a bit like camphor actually, so maybe that's the origin. But I know that it works all the time.
The highest number of plants in bloom I have seen at the same time was over 200 in 2001 in Miri, at that collector place. Amazing display. Another time was at Au Yong place, but only 100 plants from the same colony, and that time, cultivated for a year or two. He had a secret place to store the sanderianum, the first nursery was the public one, then at the back of that one, cross the road, and go up the hill by about 200m. already sanderianum there, then cross again the pond, the next road, third nursery with some hundreds plants in 2004.
It is funny to note that all the sands of a single colony bloom at the exact, very, same time in the wild, plus or minus 2-3 days, completely synchronized. They stay the same after collection. This winter I am going to bloom quite a few...
Another not so funny thing with sanderianum and rothschildianum, they love to make roots just before they bloom. If you miss those roots, or repot AFTER they bloom, they have a harder time to establish... The best time to repot them is when you can feel the flower stem coming, not later. And never break the roots.
Most growers in Taiwan cannot grow properly jungle sanderianum past 2-3 years... Apparently the seedlings are easier to grow, at least the Bruno Manser x Penanko, I have seen a couple of pictures - including Leo one and another one on theorchidsource right now, and the leaves are definitely different from the jungle plant.
