Paph adductum easy or hard?

Rick · May 12, 2011

jjkOC said:
Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences. I read recently on another forum that one grower has had much success using rockwool in their growing mix, which also included bark and sphagnum. This person also commented that the adductum is prone to bacterial infection, and using blooming-fertilizer (low nitrogen) helped also. Sorry, this is all I could gather as the post was written in french.

Any comments on these culturing conditions?

As much as I can remember away from my sources, adduction is not a calcareous cliff dweller, and more moss covered boulder/epyphytic in habit. So I think a bit more adapted to slightly acidic conditions. Medium light and warmer end temps, since I don't remember it found at high elevation.

In general I'm reducing the exposure of most of my paphs to extra potassium and increasing the amount of magnesium. So just about all my multis are now in the sphagnum moss/baskets. The adductums have some sand, and hydroton balls mixed into the moss. I can't recall but I may have added a pinch of "Cichlid Sand" pH buffering aquarium sand to the mix. I don't use straight RO water any more, but I take a bit of my well water (very hard in quality) and dilute it about 7-10:1 so it has a very soft (hardness about 20-30 mg/L as CaCO3)quality. I am feeding with MSU once a week usual summer rate of 1/2 tsp/gal. For the last month I've been adding a kelp extract.

ehanes7612 · May 12, 2011

i received a flask (adductum) from overseas via paphiness two years ago. up until this time i couldnt keep adductums or anitum alive for long (but these were divisions, i think adductum/anitum really abhor being divided). The seedlings from this flask grow like weeds (for multiflorals)...but last year i gave them too much fertilizer/too much light and they yelled at me...but all of them are recovering nicely. they range from 4 in LS to 7 in LS....these in particular want low light (500 FC range) and are really light feeders...i grow in coconut husk with lots of drainage in the bottom

dodidoki · May 13, 2011

I have two addutcums, they grow fine, one is almost ready to bloom, but I have two anitums, they are extremely slooooow growers. I wonder because I think this two "species" are only variety of each other.

fibre · May 13, 2011

Rick said:
Is 10-12 inches a blooming size growth?

Yes it is :wink:

Rick · May 13, 2011

dodidoki said:
I have two addutcums, they grow fine, one is almost ready to bloom, but I have two anitums, they are extremely slooooow growers. I wonder because I think this two "species" are only variety of each other.

What's your nutrition regime Dodidoki? You have plants of both types side by side and showing differences that are a bit reversed of the consensus. So I'm wondering if you feed lighter and need to increase for anitum.????

paphioboy · May 14, 2011

I do not have anitum or adductum but have 2 seedlings of (anitum x sanderianum), which I got 2 months ago. Both are growing at the same pace as other paphs seedlings I got. My growing media is diatomite + a few strands of coarse sphagnum near the roots. I use osmocote.