Diplocaulobium chrysotropsis Care

[Mercurianmad]

Hey guys. I’m thinking of getting a Diplocaulobium chrysotropsis mounted on tree fern. Can I keep it in my environment? Fairly dry where I live, indoors, even with humidifiers it only reaches 30% rh under the humidifier. Temperature range 60 to 74 degrees. Light would be from LEDs and I have low (phals), medium (oncidium, Christmas cactus) and high (cymbidium, vanda, cattalya) light areas.

My plants dry out regularly and are watered regularly. I have no mounted plants so this would be a first. The vandas are growing nicely in vanda pots covered by AAA New Zealand spag and are watered every day, whereas the oncidiums planted in small bark chip are watered every 3 days. The rest are in lightly packed AAA New Zealand Spag and are watered every week to 2 weeks.

So. Can I grow this plant in my dry set up? Will it need to be dunked every day like the vandas? I will have to carry to the sink to water unless they can survive by misting lightly.

And how do I give it more space to grow? Once it exceeds its piece of tree fern? All growing specs I’ve found for this plant online have been from people in tropical places, not dry dry california.

Thank you!

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