My cymb used to be dark green, but is not luckily anymore. It came with 1 blooming pseudobulb and two new growths when i got it it in 2022, fall. Obviously didn't bloom, but it produced two more growths this year, and with being outside, i have a good feeling about it.
Also, i know exactley what you mean by lack of information. No matter the source, i always find myself needing to adapt temps/water, often straying from any "care guide" i menage to find because most are suited to more northen regions, where a full days of sun feels like a childs game compared to sitting in it here. As an example, i need to have my gladioli, tulips, crisantemium in half shade; they burn out otherwise. I've noticed, at least considering light, that i should take any advice and take it a notch down, ie. everything i've read put's calla lilly as either full sun or part sun, but trying to grow it outside of deeper shade always destroys the plant here (not orchids, but i am a bit more experienced with some other plants, at least enough to be certain of things.) You have no bloody idea how much all of this insight helps.
I have a 'raised bed', some stones piled in front of a wall that creates a narrow flower bed. Right now, it's filled with soil, but i planed to either re-do it and change the soil, or completley remove it. Recieves good, filtered light all summer long (a pommegranate right above it and a medium sized lemon tree to the west), but gets pretty much the same sun as the cymb gets right now. Could it end up worthwile to swap the soil with plant material and filling it with cymbs/zygos? The stones itself are not 'wild', they are cut slabs, with pretty smooth-ish top and bottom, and the construction itself makes for a bloody excellent drainage and is well within reach of my rainwater hose (got a small pump in a rainwater collector/well). Would get rained on, but i already use rainwater for all my orchids, so i don't know how much of a diference that makes.
I will most deffinitley check out the websites sooner than later as i am extremly keen on filling out my front yard (not large, but enough).
To make sure i understood correctly, i should get sarco the same treatmant, just switching direct exposure to sun to half-shade or filtered? Would underneath a lemon tree be fine? (On a wall, gets 2-3 h of sun, but spread into like 10-30 minute interwals during some 6ish hours usually; rest of the day it's just filtered sunlight).
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Originally Posted by estación seca
I previously lived not far from where Roberta now lives. Your main issues will be low winter temperatures combined with cool rain. Some orchids are fine with that, especially if it's a dry winter. Others cannot tolerate either cool temperatures or cool rain.
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My winters are not particulary dry, as the drying northen wind is absent. In its stead, it blows from the south-southwest, from the sea, and that brings water. I belive this years mean humidity was 60%+, counting both winter and summer (was less in winter, some 50-60%, but that is still some 20-50% more than averaging trough the year than when i was a kid. But sonsidering her cymbs get wet, and her conditions are very much alike (down to Roberta saying she doesn't get a full days of sun, like me), i don't particually fear getting them out in the open.
My main issues seem to be snails, the dawnfall of my D. nobile. Ate it just as it budded last winter. I wanted to cry.
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