What to buy next?
So... I'm ready to buy a couple more plants for my collection and I think I will be donating some of my large phals to the OS when I manage to get to the next meeting, because they are great, but I am finding I prefer mini phals to the full sized guys. I have three full sized ones that I will keep, but the others are gonna get donated to make room for plants that I like better in my collection.
I really love miniature plants. I purchased a dendrobium cuthbertsonii back in October and I LOVE it. It's putting up new canes like crazy now, and if what I was told about it was correct, I should see blooms in February or March, at least, I hope I've done everything right for that. I would love to keep more miniature dendrobiums, if such a thing exists, but I would need them to be good indoor growers. They would need to be tolerant of a variety of humidity conditions, because I am not sure what humidity I will be able to provide this summer. Right now, 40-50% humidity is what I have and temps around 70-80 degrees, because my house stays at around those temps year round. I'm afraid the cuthbertsonii may have to move to the basement this summer if it gets too warm for it, but that's ok. I have plenty of space down there for plants.
So, plants that stay relatively small. Good, indoor growers that will be happy between 68 and 80 degrees and can handle varying humidity. Phal light or less (though I have a couple of oncidiums that are happy too). Watering requirements can vary.
I would prefer to start with a hybrid for trying out a new genus, then I can get into a species later, hybrids seem to work better for me. Also, I like weird flowers, paphs, masdies, dracula, oncidiums, I love neofinetia falcata and its hybrids and I want to try one, but I'm not sure my conditions will be right for it. I really like flowers that don't look like picture book flowers though and I want the foliage to be pretty to look at when the plant isn't in bloom. I'm not an all flowers all the time sort of gal.
I don't know if stink will matter to me or not yet, I have one bulbo, I haven't killed it yet, but I don't think it's happy. I'd be willing to try another one though if someone could recommend one to me that will grow in the conditions I can provide.
So what should I go with next? Any thoughts?
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