Miscellaneous stuff

[paphioboy]

We need divisions..! Great haul....

 

[Rick]

Holy cow Eric!! It just keeps growing. Are you growing algae on the walls yet?oke:oke:

 

[Clark]

Great week for you!
Love the Amish + speed limit sign. :rollhappy:

 

[NYEric]

Hairy paph hybrid

Green Epi w/ fragrant (melon/pungent) flowers full of dew!

gastrochilus from J&L

Dockrilla wallisii

Tolumnia (was yellow w/ spots last blooming, this time came out yellow, to white, then spots showed) ?!?!

 

[goldenrose]

Is the Epi from Woodstream? the hummingbird magnet!

 

[NYEric]

I got it from the guy closing his greenhouse. It's in an 8"+ wood slat box. When I spray it w/ water and taste the dew it's great!

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Go! Go! Dockrilla!

 

[SlipperFan]

Go! Go! Dockrilla!

How did you get that thing to bloom, Eric???

 

[NYEric]

The secret is ...





















Buy it in bud!
It was grown very warm and dry he said.

 

[SlipperFan]

The secret is ...





















Buy it in bud!
It was grown very warm and dry he said.

:rollhappy:
OK, good. How about light? Bright or not so much?

 

[Roy]

:rollhappy:
OK, good. How about light? Bright or not so much?

Dot, this could be the question that draws an interesting answer... Buy in Bud...

 

[NYEric]

I grow it bright. In situ photo was recently posted of plants growing on mountain cliffs so...

 

[SlipperFan]

I wonder about growing this plant because we have a bunch of them at the greenhouse. Have had them for several years. We've tried warm/bright, intermediate/lower light and everything in between. We've tried lots of water and we've tried dry periods. Only one has ever bloomed. It's either, what are we doing wrong? -- or perhaps we just have a non-blooming group.

 

[cnycharles]

there is a tolumnia grower near where I grew up (ithaca area) and I had heard that for them they liked bright and warm, breezy; soak them and let them dry out. now if i'm remembering the wrong thread and this is for some of those crazy tiny dendrobiums.... i've never met a dendrobium that I couldn't kill so don't listen to me!

 

[SlipperFan]

:rollhappy:

That's pretty much how I grow my Tolumnias. And we did try that with the Dockrilla -- which used to be classed as a Dendrobium -- but they still wouldn't bloom!

 

[NYEric]

Tolumina yes, I keep mine in a media (small coarse stones from the pet shop) that I can water everyday and it dries out quickly. The dockrilla looked like they withheld water for quite a while, and it was in bud! BTW those 2 ladies are still around Ithaca with their tolumnias!

 

[NYEric]

Pleuro.

pterostylis corm - alive!

Paph Magic Lantern x rothschildianum

2 Stanhopea x's from Pete in Hawaii!

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Wow, those plants from Pete are busting out!!!

Suggestion - I'd grow the Pteros in a bit more soil rather than orchid mix. I use 1/3rd leaf mold, 1/3 perlite, and 1/3 silica sand. They like to stay evenly moist in growth and if repotted each year you don't have to worry about fertilizing much - the leaf mold can give them most of what they need. BTW, some species, in particular P. nutans dive their tubers to the very bottom of the pot, so be careful when repotting since most of them will be down with the drainage!

 

[cnycharles]

BTW, some species, in particular P. nutans dive their tubers to the very bottom of the pot, so be careful when repotting since most of them will be down with the drainage!

(!) good to know; thanks

 

[NYEric]

I'm experimenting; one pot is in a bark/orchid mix, the other in a more soily mix!